Ahead of the inauguration of the Israeli Innovation Center, founded by the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, Maurice Lévy, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Publicis Groupe, was honoured with the “Peace and Innovation” award in acknowledgment of his outstanding contribution to peace and innovation.
“It is a great honour and I am very grateful to be able to take part, however modestly, in the peace efforts and in the development of innovation. Shimon Pères was a one-of-a-kind character who worked incessantly towards peace and in making Israel the start-up nation it is today. His son Chemi has taken the torch as President of the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation and now both flames, that of the Peace and that of Innovation, are blazing,” commented Maurice Lévy.