Laheq Halak (“Catch Your Deal”) is a mobile app connecting Palestinian vendors — supermarkets, bakeries, produce sellers — with consumers looking for quality food at reduced prices, turning surplus and near-expiry goods into an opportunity rather than waste. With 47% of Palestinian solid waste being organic, the problem is environmental as much as it is social: food discarded while families struggle to afford meals. Since launching, the app has reached over 4,000 downloads, 720 registered users, and 20+ active vendors, while supporting more than 100 families through a solidarity card model. Laheq Halak has presented in more than 12 countries across 24 international events — and its founder is leaving his engineering career to build it full time.
Jabra Dukmak
Founder
2026 Fellow - Bethlehem
A civil and environmental engineer from Bethlehem, Jabra studied in Italy on scholarship and spent years working in research and development at TEA Group, contributing to AirQino — an air quality monitoring system used across Europe and the MENA region. It was his research into Palestine's solid waste management system that made the scale of food waste impossible to ignore. He began mapping the gap: vendors with daily surplus and no efficient way to move it, families with limited budgets and no easy access to affordable food. Jabra built Laheq Halak with his brother Joseph, a software engineer who developed the app, because he believes engineering is most powerful when it solves problems people actually live. He is now dedicating himself to the project full time.
Laheq Halak
Jabra Dukmak
