BGU Canada will host the second annual “The Future is Now Gala featuring Anderson Cooper” on December 3, 2023. The event offers a unique opportunity for individuals and sponsors to support BGU’s commitment to making a meaningful impact on the world. The gala embodies excellence, innovation, and vision as BGU continues its journey of transforming lives and shaping the future.

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) is like no other Israeli university. With a main campus in Be’er Sheva built fifty-four years ago, plus locations in Sde Boker and Eilat, BGU stands as a beacon to the rest of Israeli society. It is a testament to the perseverance and determination of those who built a university in the middle of the desert and made it thrive.

The desert is now the last frontier left in Israel, a bastion of possibility and wonder as the centre of the country becomes overpopulated and unaffordable. With many industries and the Israel Defense Forces moving to Be’er Sheva, BGU is poised to become a central focus of the country, destined to innovate solutions for some of the greatest issues facing mankind today including climate change.

BGU encapsulates the pioneer spirit of Israel’s BGU Canada will host the second annual “The Future is Now Gala featuring Anderson Cooper” on December 3, 2023. The event offers a unique opportunity for individuals and sponsors to support BGU’s commitment to making a meaningful impact on the world.
The gala embodies excellence, innovation, and vision as BGU continues its journey of transforming lives and shaping the future.

BGU encapsulates the pioneer spirit of Israel’s early state building years when the country was just beginning to form. Creativity and innovation are central to the university’s core values. BGU is a leader in climate change research and technologies that will not only ensure Israel’s sustainability far into the future, but impact other countries facing similar climate crises.

This is the moment to become part of the solution and affect change globally. Now is the time to help shape the outcome of Israel’s future while also influencing important issues around the world. Supporting Ben-Gurion University means you are not only strengthening the core of Israeli society, but investing in innovations that will impact generations to come.

Anderson Cooper is the anchor of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360°, a global newscast that airs weeknights on CNN and is simulcast to an international audience on CNN International. Beginning in April 2023, he’s hosted a new Sunday primetime series for CNN, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper. Since the start of his career in 1992, Cooper has worked in more than forty countries and has covered nearly all-major news events around the world, often reporting from the scene. In addition to his shows on CNN, Cooper is also a regular correspondent for CBS’s 60 Minutes. At CNN and 60 Minutes, Cooper has won a number of major journalism awards. He helped lead CNN’s Peabody Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina and duPont Award-winning coverage of the 2004 tsunami. Additionally, he has been awarded twenty Emmy Awards, including two for his coverage of the earthquake in Haiti, and an Edward R. Murrow Award. Cooper’s three books— Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss and Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of Wars, Disaster, and Survival — all topped the New York Times Best-Seller List.

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Be a sponsor at the Eilat level ($5,000), the Mitzpe Ramon level ($3,600) or the Friends if Anderson Cooper level ($1,800) and become part of the Innovator’s Circle. As a member of the Innovator’s Circle, the combined power of your collective gifts will drive greater impact supporting the School of Sustainability and Climate Change.

David Dulberg
Naomi Oelbaum