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From the Blue Box to Blueprint Negev: JNF USA’s Russell Robinson on Building Israel’s Future
In this episode of Tel Aviv Diary, Marc speaks with Russell Robinson, CEO of Jewish National Fund USA, about how descendent of a century-old institution—best known to many for the iconic blue donation box—became a driver of some of Israel’s most ambitious nation-building projects.
Robinson recounts his own unlikely path from El Paso, Texas, into Jewish communal leadership, and the pivotal moment Ronald Lauder recruited him to help tackle what he calls Israel’s looming water catastrophe. He walks through the thinking behind the Lauder Water Plan, the hard choices between desalination and…
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