The national GEM 2010 research report reflects regional entrepreneurial rates, points to the continuing effects of the global 2008-2011 economic crisis and substantiates the growing national dissatisfaction about social and economic gaps which led to major civil protests in the summer of 2011, calling for social justice. The Ira Center for Business, Technology and Society at Ben Gurion University in the Negev, established by the Ira Foundation, views the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research project as an important opportunity to expand, in a significant, systematic and profound way, our global understanding of the factors affecting entrepreneurship as an important economic and business activity.