Michael Granoff, at The Blogs

Mar 31, 2024, 2:40 PM

The first speaker at his funeral was Ned Lamont, the Governor of Connecticut. In 2006, Lamont launched a primary challenge to Senator Joe Lieberman based mainly on the Senator’s support of America’s war to rid Iraq of its brutal dictator,...

Mar 21, 2024, 5:30 PM

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Deliberating Tuesday’s march on Washington? Just go!

When Natan Sharansky gets involved on behalf of Jews in need, you join the cause to change the world, and may even change yourself

Oct 27, 2022, 12:23 AM

Meet Israel’s Biggest Company: Cars Worldwide Made Safer from Jerusalem

When Dan Senor and Saul Singer wrote the book “Start-up Nation” more than a decade ago (!), they opened with the story of a massively ambitious, high-flying start-up with a radical model to accelerate the adoption of electric cars....

Dec 24, 2021, 5:43 PM

Why Stephen Sondheim Never Made it to Israel

FILE - President Barack Obama, right, presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to composer Stephen Sondheim during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, on, Nov. 24, 2015, in Washington. Sondheim, the songwriter who reshaped the American musical theater in the second half of the 20th century, has died at age 91. Sondheim's death was announced by his Texas-based attorney, Rick Pappas, who told The New York Times the composer died Friday, Nov. 26, 2021, at his home in Roxbury, Conn. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

This Sunday, December 26 marks the shloshim for composer Stephen Sondheim, the conclusion of the 30-day period of mourning in the Jewish tradition. Although not related to him, and thus not halachically a mourner, this period has in fact...

Dec 27, 2020, 2:49 PM

Israel Needs This Fighter in Knesset

Not a lot of Members of Knesset find themselves inspiring New York Post covers barely a month after entering office. But this past July, under the banner, “Hypotwits,” that paper featured the questioning of MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh of a...

Oct 29, 2020, 5:35 PM

Recalling Rabin 25 Years Later

It was autumn in New York - a typical Shabbat afternoon - and I was reading and napping on the couch of my Upper West Side apartment when my attention was grabbed by my father’s voice over the answering...

Sep 10, 2020, 3:37 PM

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An Israeli in Dubai

Just back from a 2-day business trip, what I found was not just a hunger for commerce, but a genuine yearning for friendship between peoples

Jun 5, 2019, 5:58 PM

Ra’anana Red Roof Requirement Reduces Renewables

In my day job as Managing Director of a Tel Aviv-based venture capital fund focused exclusively on seed-stage mobility companies, I regularly play host to automotive and technology delegations from around the world. In these sessions, I am often...

Nov 23, 2015, 7:21 AM

How to honor Ezra: end incitement

Fifty-two years ago today tears flowed in United States over the sudden and violent death of a young leader who inspired so many and had such a promising future ahead of him. And on this very day, tears flowed...

About Me

Michael Granoff is the founder of Maniv Mobility, a venture fund based in Tel Aviv that invests in advanced automotive and mobility startups globally. He has sat on more than a dozen corporate and non-profit boards, including those of Securing America’s Future Energy and Better Place. He emigrated to Israel from the New York area in 2013 with his wife and four children.