Ronny Douek

Ronny Douek (Hebrew: רוני דואק‎) known as Roni Duek (born 1958, Haifa) is an Israeli businessman, social entrepreneur and philanthropist. He has founded multiple social ventures, including Zionism 2000, Sheatufim and Uru, and has served as chairman of the Israel Anti-Drug Authority. Douek lit a torch at formal torch-lighting ceremony on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on Israel's 60th anniversary.

Social activity

In 1990, he founded Ach-Shav, an association which worked with new immigrants from the Former Soviet Union and Ethiopia. Among others, Ach-Shav has established community centers in the caravan sites that provided provisional housing to the new immigrants in attempt to allow them to benefit from cultural and leisure activities. In 1994, he founded "Alter-Nativ", a national initiative for fighting substance abuse, which was later adopted by the Israel Anti-Drug Authority and became its flagship program for prevention of substance abuse by youth. To date, over 300 thousand teenagers participated in Alter-Nativ workshops in hundreds of schools and other educational settings across Israel.