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Jessica Alter

City: Cambridge, Mass.
Kudos: From Harvard
To Israel

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16 December 8 • 2005

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hen Jessica Alter talks
about Israel, she means
business. That's why she
and other students helped organize
a trip to Israel last May for fellow
students at Harvard Business
School.
Jessica wanted her classmates to
experience Israel from. a personal
perspective. She helped plan the
itinerary and set up a meeting for
the group with former Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Jessica, 26, learned to love Israel at
an early age from her parents, Peter,
current president of the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit,
and the late Ellen Alter. She and her
older brother, Daniel, grew up in
Bloomfield Hills, where Peter and
his wife, Barbra, reside.
Jessica graduated from Andover
High School and attended the
University of Michigan, where she
majored in business. She worked as
a strategy consultant in Chicago for
three years, then began a two-year
program at the Harvard Business
Sthool, where she will receive her
MBA next spring.

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How did you become
involved in organizing the
Harvard trip to Israel?
"I've always been passionate about
Israel. I've been there four times;
starting when I was going into third
grade. At U-M, I was very involved
in AIPAC (the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee). This was
the third year that a group of stu-
dents from the Harvard Business
School were going to Israel, and I
wanted to be involved. I thought it
was important to expose these
future business leaders of the world
to the real Israel. Many of them only
knew Israel as the news media por-
trayed it."

What was unique about this
trip?
"Out of 47 people, 43 were non-Jews;
and about half of them were from
different countries, such as Spain,
India, China and others. We did the
usual tourist things, like visiting the
Western Wall and strolling around
the Old City; but we also had some
fabulous meetings with high-level
leaders like Netanyahu, who was
finance minister at the time, and
Stanley Fischer, governor of the
Bank of Israel. People who would
not normally travel to Israel were
able to see the opportunities there