About this episode
Current Time.Hi Dear Friends,Welcome to the weekly update.I’m in the final stretch of resolving a few things in my life, and this past week has been packed with life lessons, so I couldn’t post like usual.While figuring things out, I discovered there was a mistake in the calculations. The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is NOT 42. But I can’t reveal the real answer just yet. You’ll have to join my journey to discover it for yourself.My dream is to break a world record and sell the most tickets (subscribers) to my show. So wish me luck, especially in hitting the first milestone of 100 tickets before Pesach, which starts next week.Thank you for being here. I hope more people will join us, so feel free to invite your friends, family, and anyone who wants to create the future.The Compulsory Education System of the FutureThe discussion in this podcast focuses on the recent episodes written with my father, Nissim Portal, where we examined the housing shortages during the early days of the State of Israel. We discussed the immediate solutions available and established temporary housing to bridge the gap until permanent homes were constructed.Going through this challenging period from my current perspective in life reveals the difficulties and sheds light on the decisions the leadership had to make. Many have criticized those decisions to this day. However, leaders are human. They make mistakes. The founding leadership was navigating uncharted territory and building a country for the first time. Most had no prior experience, only a powerful ideology and determination to create a homeland for the Jewish nation.Looking back at this time from various angles, including housing and basic survival needs like food, clothing, and employment, made me see things differently than when I learned about it in high school, from my parents' and grandparents' stories, documentaries, and TV news items.This time, I brought with me life experience. I acquired higher education, which includes economic knowledge as part of my engineering bachelor's degree and MBA. So, when revisiting this history, I evaluate it not only through the personal stories of my family but also through an entrepreneurial lens, management perspective, decision-making under uncertainty, financial constraints, human capital, and the social mosaic that shaped Israeli society. All of this unfolded in a country facing war on average every decade.In my conversations with my father, the entrepreneurial spirit emerges, and the dream of building a new structure for the education system rises again.The fear of “what people will say” is always there, especially when people aren’t trained to imagine new possibilities and struggle to evaluate innovative ideas in their early stages.Our conversation blends this
