Tamid
connecting the next generation of leaders with Israel through experiential education
Since partnering with the Leifer Family Fund in 2017, Tamid has expanded from an exclusive focus on business to include leaders in coding, health technology, social sciences, and engineering.
Beginning with his role supporting the launch of Fidelity’s Select Technology Fund, Alan Leifer recognized the opportunity to strengthen U.S.–Israeli relationships through business and technology cooperation, and to nurture the development of business leaders by supporting relationships across borders.
Tamid began as a small club of University of Michigan students interested in connecting with Israeli business innovators. Alan saw the opportunity for TAMID to grow American–Israeli engagement through the prism of entrepreneurship, setting aside geopolitical and religious issues to focus on the possibilities of new technology. The Leifer Family Fund nurtured the TAMID vision and helped them scale from student-run clubs on a handful of U.S. campuses to 3,500 students on 60 campuses across the U.S. and Canada.
In Alan’s vision, the majority of awardees of the 2030 Forbes 30 under 30 ‑ the annual list of the brashest entrepreneurs across the U.S. and Canada ‑ will have started their journey in a TAMID campus chapter.
Tamid allows Israeli startups to consult directly with exceptional students, who provide immediate capabilities these organizations would otherwise have to source on their own. Projects include US and EU market research, social media planning, and website building. 1,500 Israeli companies are now part of the Tamid network.
The pinnacle of the TAMID experience is a highly selective 8-week summer internship in Israel’s high-tech hubs of Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem, where the top 5% of TAMID students get to polish their start-up skills, burnish their resumes, and build their career networks while seeing the real Israel with their own eyes. With more than 60 North American chapters and now growing internationally, Tamid is helping to create the next generation of Israel-engaged leaders.
