Founder and Chairman of Babcom Centers, Telhami is a businessman and entrepreneur with 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 integrating 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, with both Arab and Jewish stakeholders, provides leading Israeli companies with call-center and software development services (especially software QA). In 2015, it had eight branches across the country and employed close to 2,000 employees, of whom 70% were from the Arab sector. Telhami has served on the Board of the Israel Democracy Institute, and has participated in projects with The Lautman Fund and Appleseeds Academy. He is currently a member of the Board and Executive Committee of Haifa University, 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 former MK Erel Margalit whose mission is to enable more Arabs to realize their potential and create successful high-tech firms in Israel.