Roy Schwartz Tichon (born 1992) is an Israeli entrepreneur, mostly known for making an alternative for public transportation on

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(Saturday) in Israel. Schwartz Tichon is the chairman of "Ve Af Al Pi Chen" ( he, ואף על פי כן) cooperative, which operates buses lines that changed the

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Biography

Schwartz Tichon was born and grew in

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

, studied at the

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of Haifa. In 2011 he was recruited for the

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and served in the

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. In 2015 he finished a bachelor's degree in economics at the

Open University of Israel The Open University of Israel ( he, האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, ''Ha-Universita ha-Ptuha'') is a distance-education university in Israel. It is one of ten public universities in Israel recognized by the Council of Higher Education (CH ...

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. His grandfather is the spokesman of the 14th

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Dan Tichon Dan Tichon ( he, דן תיכון, born 5 January 1937) is a former Israeli politician and Speaker of the Knesset 1996–1999. Biography Dan Tichon was born in Kiryat Haim during the Mandate era. He served as an officer in the Israel Defense Fo ...

Public activity

In 2015, he launched Noa Tanua, using his army release grant and other savings. While the Israeli government forbids public transportation on Shabbat and other holidays in most of Israel, despite a wide public opposition, Schwartz Tichon used a legal loophole to maintain a private alternative project, operating in several major cities. The initiative is running through the "Ve Af Al Pi Chen" cooperative, in which he serves as chair and CEO, since launching. In its first three years the organization focused on operating lines by itself, when in 2018 the organization pivoted to impact on the municipal governance. The organization promoted public transportation on Saturday during Israeli the municipal elections in 2018 and called for public support from politicians who promised to promote Saturday transportation. In 2019 the organization started to operate public transportation on Saturday through cooperation with mayors who were chosen in 2018, in municipalities throughout Israel, including:

Tiberias Tiberias ( ; he, טְבֶרְיָה, ; ar, طبريا, Ṭabariyyā) is an Israeli city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. A major Jewish center during Late Antiquity, it has been considered since the 16th century one of Judaism's Fo ...

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Ganei Tikva Ganei Tikva ( he, גַּנֵּי תִּקְוָה, lit="gardens of hope") is a town in Israel bordering Kiryat Ono to the west, Petah Tikva to the north, Gat Rimon to the east and Savyon to the south. History Ganei Tikva was formed in 1949, ...

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and

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. In November 2019 " Na'im Busofash" (Hebrew for both "fine in the weekend" and "moving in the weekend") started its operation, a bus line network through Israel's central district initiated by Noa Tanua and led by the city of

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

. It is the first and only wide scale change in the operation of Saturday public transportation in Israel. In 2017 he was chosen for "People of 2017" by

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, in 2018 he was chosen as one of the "36 under 36" of

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. That year he participated in the translation of the fanfiction "

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", a book promoting rational thinking among adults and youth. Since 2018, Schwartz Tichon writes in the blog "If I were finance minister" in

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website, discussing economic issues advocating for utilitarianism and classical liberalism. Schwartz Tichon also participates in some other media outlets such as

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and "The Congress" podcast. Since 2020, Schwartz Tichon is the co-host of the

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Shnekel with the journalist Idan Eretz. In 2020, Schwartz Tichon joined the Carmel Forum for Health Policy, a forum of medical professionals and economists. In August 2021, Roy wrote a position paper advocating government incentives to promote vaccination among youth. Schwartz Tichon wrote a

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advocating government incentives to promote

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among youth which was later publicly supported by the Israeli minister of Justice,

Gideon Sa'ar Gideon Moshe Sa'ar ( he, גִּדְעוֹן סַעַר; born 9 December 1966) is an Israeli politician who has served as Minister of Justice since June 2021. Sa'ar was previously a member of the Knesset for the Likud between 2003 and 2014, as De ...

. He is a

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party member.

Personal life

Schwartz Tichon lives in Tel Aviv. His grandfather is the spokesman of the 14th

, Dan Tichon.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schwartz Tichon, Roy Israeli businesspeople 1992 births Living people Israeli activists Israeli economists People from Haifa Liberalism in Israel Open University of Israel alumni Hebrew Reali School alumni Israeli bloggers