Kharkiv. Immigration. Jesse Cohen.
A childhood between languages, places and institutions. Not a nostalgic snapshot — the starting point for questions of belonging, opportunity and identity.
Period source ↗IGOR VEPRETSKI · person before system
Igor Vepretski.
Igor Vepretski.
Not a title. A journey.
I was born in Kharkiv and grew up in Israel. My path has included service, public institutions, fatherhood, creativity and social entrepreneurship. I built 7YA so my story would remain connected to real moments, sources and what I am creating today—not reduced to a résumé.
The story can also be seen.
Portraits, interviews, video, StartOn and music—authentic material, each linked to its source.
I do not want a site that pretends everything was orderly. It was not. I want a place where you can see how one moment connected to the next — and what I did with what I learned.
01 / The connecting line
Different chapters.
The same question.
What makes a person feel they have a place — and how can a system open a door instead of closing one?
Seeing a system from the inside.
Service and public work turned responsibility, pressure, information and people from abstract ideas into daily experience.
Retrospective video ↗Returning to the neighborhood with more tools.
StartOn connected the personal story with an attempt to build a space for technology, creation and belonging for young people.
mynet Holon ↗Camera, feed, music and conversation.
Creation does not sit in the footer of life. It is another way to talk about identity, culture, pressure, humor and people.
Open the media archive ↗Memory gets an interface.
7YA is a context layer: person, moment, source, date and what happened next. The goal is not to replace platforms, but to connect them without losing provenance.
Open the library ↗02 / Open the source
Know me through
what remains online.
Not a closed “About” page. Different sources from different periods, including my own content and external documentation.
YOUTUBE · owned · 2026My story, in my own voice.
First-person video.
Watch ↗ SPOTIFY · 1:14HFrom at-risk youth to social entrepreneur
A long conversation — without reducing the path to a headline.
Listen ↗
Music · NAWAN ft. VEPRETSKIBIZZI
Music as part of the public identity.
Watch the video ↗ LINKEDIN · 13.09.2026StartOn: what changed along the way.
A reflection on the shift from thinking about a technology room to building infrastructure for belonging, relationships and measurement.
Read ↗“Leading by example does not mean a story without cracks. It means turning those cracks into building material.”
03 / TODAY
What I am building
now.
Three distinct tracks: a social mission, a memory system, and research and writing. They connect without becoming the same thing.
Opportunity and belonging for young people
Spaces young people want to enter, connecting technology, creativity, community and mentoring.
Open StartOn ↗A source before a claim.
Turn a post, video, document or article into a record that can be opened, verified and understood in context.
Open the library ↗From experience to a framework for thinking.
SUPERNOAH explores agency, trust, AI, information and opportunity—with the independent manuscript clearly identified as work in progress.
Open research ↗04 / Public windows
The same person.
Different windows.
These accounts are not marketing channels on this site. Each preserves another layer of the same living archive.