ABOUT

Dr. Gideon Bickel finished undergraduate studies in agronomy at the Hebrew University. He has several master degrees, and he holds a doctorate PHD, in social sciences from the prestigious University of Haifa. In addition, he graduated the National Security College with honors.

Dr. Gideon Bickel is a retired colonel (in reserve duty) in the IDF, a commander in the paratroopers and was wounded in Six Day war during the break to Jerusalem. He served in Yom Kippur war and in the first Lebanon war, in 1982.

Dr. Gideon Bickel served in 1987 as a representative of the State of Israel Bonds in fund raising in the US and Canada. In 1989 he was the chairman of the agricultural strategy committee, established by the Government of Israel, and set at the board of directors at Agridev, which developed and provided agricultural knowledge to countries around the world. Bickel served as a director of several companies and he is the founder and the first president of the Voluntary association Bnei Arazim, for children’s care. Dr. Gideon Bickel was a member of numerous trade exchanges, such as the Chamber of Commerce Israel-US, Chamber of Commerce Israel-Germany, Chamber of Commerce Israel-Japan, Chamber of Commerce Israel-Britain and Chamber of Commerce Israel-Jordan.

Dr. Gideon Bickel accompanied the agricultural aspect of relations between Israel and its neighbors and worked to promote peace in the Middle East. Bickel served as a chairman of the agricultural committee to interaction between Israel and the Arabs of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, attended peace conferences in Sharm el-Sheikh, Casablanca, Amman, Cairo, Qatar and the peace conference at Harvard Business School, and assisted in setting up high-tech agricultural projects in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia.

Dr. Gideon Bickel accompanied visits and delegation of Prime Ministers and Presidents as an agriculture expert. In this context he visited China, Kenya, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Singapore, Australia, India, Japan and Thailand. These trips made contacts with heads of state, ministers of agriculture and leading companies in the field of agriculture.

Bickel got the 1989  Award, from the Institute for Productivity and Production. The award was signed by the Prime Minister of Israel and the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs. 

for Breakthrough in growing flowers for export, and received many certificates of appreciation, including the  certificate of appreciation from the Chamber of Commerce for contribution to the development of free enterprise, a certificate of appreciation from the Minister of Agriculture on agricultural strategy planning and many more.

All the fundamentals of the agricultural industry are known to us from its deep roots to the construction of a marketing strategy through an existing international marketing infrastructure in dozens of countries around the world, including the European continent, the United Kingdom, Slovenia, North America, the United States, Canada, Russia, Eastern Europe, Japan, the East Asian countries and the Persian Gulf, South Korea and South Africa.