MIT MEET
Supporting MIT MEET — a program that brings Israeli and Palestinian high school students together for advanced computer science and entrepreneurship education, with the conviction that shared work on technology can build the relationships their region needs.
MIT MEET — Middle East Education through Technology — is a three-year program founded at MIT that brings together Israeli and Palestinian high school students each summer in Jerusalem to study computer science, entrepreneurship, and the kind of collaborative problem-solving that the region’s politics rarely models. Students who complete the program go on to top universities and technology careers, and many maintain working relationships across the political divide for the rest of their lives.
The Foundation has supported MEET because it represents one of the clearest examples we know of education doing exactly what we believe education can do: putting capable young people together around hard, technical work, and letting the relationships that form there carry forward into the rest of their lives.
What this looks like in practice
- Direct support for MEET’s three-year curriculum and summer programming in Jerusalem
- Connection between MEET alumni and the broader Stanford and Bay Area technology ecosystem
- Long-term partnership with MEET’s leadership and alumni network
Why it matters
The students who go through MEET are not selected because they will agree about everything. They are selected because they are exceptional, and because they are willing to spend three summers learning to build technology alongside someone their political context tells them they shouldn’t trust. That is exactly the bet the Foundation is willing to make.
[This page should be reviewed and expanded with specific Foundation contributions and partner attribution.]