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Israeli Economic Official to Speak at Scarsdale Event

Lecture dedicated to memory of Rabbi and Rebbetzin Jacob and Deborah Rubenstein, who died in a 2008 house fire.

Eli Groner, Israel’s minister for Economic Affairs to the United States, is scheduled to be the featured the speaker at Westchester Reform Temple for the Fifth Annual Jacob and Deborah Rubinstein Memorial Lecture. 

His talk entitled, “The Secret Sauce to Start-Up Nation,” is set for Thursday, May 9 at 8 p.m. and is presented as a collaboration between Israel Bonds, Westchester Reform Temple and Young Israel of Scarsdale, whose rabbi and rebbetzin, Jacob and Deborah Rubenstein, perished  in a house fire in 2008. 

The lecture is offered as a commemoration of, and a tribute to, these two  Jewish community leaders.

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The lecture is free and open to the public at Westchester Reform Temple, 255 Mamaroneck Road, Scarsdale. 

About Eli Groner:

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​Eli Groner is Israel’s Minister for Economic Affairs to the United States, based in Washington, D.C. Mr. Groner was confirmed by the Israeli Cabinet for this position in August 2011.

Mr. Groner came to the diplomatic role by way of the private sector, where he worked most recently in private equity and management consulting.  Prior to his appointment, Mr. Groner served as a special advisor to the Chairman of Tnuva, Israel’s largest consumer packaged goods company. From 2003-2009, Mr. Groner was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he served a breadth of Fortune 1000 corporations from around the world, as well as many of Israel’s leading companies. While at McKinsey, Mr. Groner was also selected to lead firm-wide training for early tenure consultants.  

Mr. Groner started his career as a journalist at The Jerusalem Post, where he served as a finance and economics correspondent. He was also a summer investment banking associate at Lehman Brothers in New York, where he worked on mergers and acquisitions.  

He spent several years playing for Israel’s national fast pitch softball team, where he participated in the European Championships, and won a Bronze Medal at the 1993 Maccabiah Games. Mr. Groner served in the paratrooper corps from 1989-1992, where he received a citation for outstanding performance and exemplary leadership.  

Mr. Groner has an MBA from New York University where he was a Director’s Fellow. He received a BA in political science from Bar-Ilan University.  

He and his wife Tamar have five children.


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