Founder and Chairman of Babcom Centers, is a businessman and entrepreneur with substantial management experience and a long and successful history in global management. He served in management positions and as CEO of Delta Galil's international divisions for 25 years.
Telhami is committed to empowering and advancing the Arab community in Israel, and especially to facilitating the integration of the younger generation in the domestic and global economy. In 2008, he founded Babcom Centers in northern Israel, together with Israeli industrialist Dov Lautman. This multicultural company, which has both Arab and Jewish stakeholders, provides call center and software development services (especially software QA) to leading Israeli companies. In 2015, it had eight branches across the country and employed approximately 2000 employees, of whom 70% were from the Arab sector.
Mr. Telhami has served on several councils and boards of directors, including the Board of the Israel Democracy Institute, and has participated in projects with The Lautman Fund and Appleseeds Academy. He is a member of the Board and Executive Committee of the University of Haifa, a member of the Board of Kav Mashve (an NGO that seeks equality between Arabs and Jews through academic work), and a member of the Advisory Committee for Economic Development in the Arab, Druze and Circassian sector in the Prime Minister's Office.
In 2014, Telhami founded Takwin Labs, an internet incubator for Arab entrepreneurs in Haifa, together with Chemi Peres and MK Erel Margalit. This incubator seeks to enable more Arabs to realize their potential and create successful high-tech companies in Israel.