Late Thursday, Israeli educational executive Shai Reshef was awarded the twelfth spot in a poll answered by three million readers of popular American news blog site Huffington Post as one of the 'Ultimate 12 Game Changers,' people who readers considered to be global innovation leaders that have significantly changed the way readers live or look at the world.
The poll began in September 2010, with a list of a 100 innovators by Huffington Post as visionaries 'who change[d] the way we look at the world and the way we live in it.' Other individuals selected by readers, included former US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, American educator Geoffrey Canada, US consumer advocate and Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren, Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi and Apple executive and founder Steve Jobs."