INSPIRATIONAL ISRAELI
IRAD EICHLER Irad Eichler is the CEO and founder of the Israeli startup Circles, a leading emotional support platform that matches people who are going through similar challenges and places them in small online support groups guided by professional facilitators. Since its founding, Circles has provided over 100,000 hours of support. Irad won the Zero Project prize for impactful social enterprises in 2017
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and was named Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum. In 2005 he founded Shekulo Tov, an organization aimed at helping people with psychiatric disabilities to be included in society by increasing their participation in the labor force. Shekulo Tov has provided support and service to more than 6,000 individuals in rehabilitation.
