Or-Tal Kiriati is a teacher entrepreneur.

A Director of R&D in Shamir High Tel Aviv, she develops new methodologies, incorporating innovation, technology and creativity into teaching, and also guides and coaches teachers. Or-Tal has been teaching English as a foreign language to grades 7+, from special Ed to gifted students. She has just founded a new high school program in Social-Technological Entrepreneurship, opened September 2023.

Previously, she was an instructor with the Institute for Democratic Education.

Or-Tal founded the international EdtechIS group on Facebook and the EdGames Meetup community in Israel, to bring together educators and high tech entrepreneurs.

She founded The Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge within the Global Entrepreneurship Week events and has been an active figure in the Tel-Aviv tech entrepreneurs and game development communities, as well as several international educators networks.

A startup founder she counts one exit and 2 edtech ventures, more than a decade consulting high tech companies on their business, communications and marketing strategies and a career as an influential financial journalist.

Still, she insists, teaching is the best!