An innovative entrepreneur, independent peace and environmental activist; Boaz is the Chief Executive Officer, Chairman & chief innovator at Roots Sustainable Agricultural Technologies Ltd. Roots is an incubator dedicated to increasing crop optimization. It develops and commercializes unique root zone heating and cooling, creating technology for the cannabis and general agriculture sector. Utilizing unique irrigation by condensation processes they are able to sustain full life cycle of plants, grape vines and young trees, irrigating them just with water from the humidity in the air.
Boaz is also the Co founder and Executive Chairman of The Board of CresoPharma, with offices in Australia and Israel. Creso-Pharma leverages science and research, to develop, register, and commercialize innovative therapeutic approaches that target the body’s endocannabinoid system.
A former IDF combat medic in the Prime Minister’s Special Forces, he was a former Assistant Army Attaché at the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C. He is the founder of Israel’s 'Green Leaf Party' advocating cannabis legalization, promoting environmental protection, human rights and stridently anti-occupation
Boaz was a researcher and consultant for the democracy think tank, Freedom House on issues regarding Middle-East water and regional cooperation. Together with a former director of Israel’s foreign ministry, he authored a proposal, The Peace Canal on the Golan Heights; Benefits and Risks to Regional Water Cooperation, as part of back channel Israeli/Syrian peace negotiations.
Boaz has an MBA degree from the University of Maryland.
A dear friend, I have known Boaz for over forty years. We rode motorcycles together while fasting on Yom Kippur, cleared cross-county ski trails in Maine, and started a fun, short lived, and surely non-lucrative, firewood business.
All the while we engaged in non-stop fun- filled discussions on politics and life He provided wonderful insights into Israeli life. I introduced Boaz to the dissident thinking of Chomsky and Zinn, who class he enrolled in at Boston University. I invited Boaz to speak at my EPIIC symposium on the "Future of the West Bank and Gaza.” At that time, in 1987 it was illegal for Israelis to meet with PLO representatives in any forum. Regardless, he agreed, believing that dialogue is essential.
He is a truly thoughtful, passionate maverick, and is the inspiration for Trebuchet’s and LISD’s current initiative to explore the potential of frameworks of accountability for environmental crimes, including a People’s Tribunal.
