HOME AND HOME: After working in private industry for many years, Avishai Nevel, originally of Israel, founded the Providence-based nonprofit Rhode Island-Israel Collaborative to help forge trade, business and academic partnerships between the Ocean State and Israel. PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY
PBN 2020 Leaders & Achievers Awards Avishai Nevel | Founder and CEO, Rhode Island-Israel Collaborative HOME IS WHERE the heart is, and Avishai Nevel’s heart is in two places. Born in Israel, Nevel immigrated to Rhode Island in 1981. After spending years as a business executive in the textile industry, he sold his company, Lawson-Hemphill,…