Category: Gender

Chedva Kleinhandler

Founder at Emerj

I’m the founder of Emerj, a startup with one clear goal: make work – better. This is a life mission for me and my team, built out of our own experiences as well as of the 600 people from 56 countries that shared (and continue sharing) their experiences with us.
Our solution is an app that connects between employees and mentors for always relevant, always confidential career advice on demand. This would help not only with economic empowerment, but would also build more diverse, more productive and more efficient businesses with inherent growth, and with reduced employee turnover.

Before Emerj (which was previously called Lean On), I helped local brands take the leap and become recognizable abroad by tweaking their social media, content strategy and connections with bloggers and magazines.

Specialties: Blogging, blogger outreach, content strategy, Twitter, Pinterest, Shopify.

I’m the former co-founder of #InsightMediaIL – a social media workshop series for lifestyle business owners and creative entrepreneurs. I started my design blog Rooms and Words on 2010 (after blogging since 2007) and since then I’ve written and blogged for various magazines, brands and online publications.

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Comme il faut

“Comme il faut”, literally translated from French to ‘properly,’ is a business by women for women.

Comme il faut is comprised of a fashion house, women’s only spa, and chef’s restaurant located at the Beit Banamal (Home in the Harbor) complex at Tel Aviv port, that offers a women’s venue for culture and entertainment. Sybil Goldfiner founded the company together with Carole Godin 22 years ago, as a business by women for women. The company seeks to advance women in Israeli society by developing and cultivating feminist awareness. The approach that guides the company’s activities is that a garment is not only a garment, but is also part of an entire gamut of political actions that are motivated by a cultural-critical worldview. The designers at comme Il faut believe that a piece of clothing truly resembles the way in which it was produced, the body image it carries, and the way we choose to advertise and display it. Moreover, the clothing article will always signify the values that inspired its creation.

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Edna Fast

Founder at Lunart Fund

Edna Fast was born in Tel Aviv and moved with her family to New York in 1984. During her 34 years in NYC, Edna founded and managed EZ Fast Realty, Inc. – a company providing consulting, management and brokerage services for foreign real estate investors. In addition to her successful business venture Edna taught Israeli Law at Cardozo Law School and took an active role in the Inter Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues, an umbrella organization dedicated to educating the Jewish communities in the US about the problems of the Arab Israeli minorities in Israel.  Edna returned to Tel Aviv with her husband in 2011. She currently runs her non-profit venture, established in 2008 – the Luna Art Fund (“LunArt”) for the promotion of Art and Advancement of Art Education in the Israeli Arab Sector. In addition to initiating and supporting free pre-college prep courses in art to Arab-Israeli high school graduates aspiring for a career in the visual arts, the program also provides study scholarships to some of its graduates.

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Ivri Lider

Recording Artist at Helicon Records

Ivri Lider is one of the most successful Israeli musicians of his generation, appreciated by fellow artists, critics, and the public alike. Through his lyrics, Ivri brings to life the thoughts and day-to-day encounters of a new generation of Israelis – a generation he calls “The New People.” It comes as no surprise to those who follow the Israeli music scene that the combination of Ivri’s songwriting and his unique voice have made him not only a star, but one of the most adored and respected people in Israel. Born on a Kibbutz in 1974, Ivri took his first musical steps while still in high school. At the age of 17, he started a group called Everyone Does It Like This, whose gigs included a performance at the legendary Roxanne club in Tel Aviv. As he continued to refine musical skills throughout his teen years, renowned Israeli modern dance choreographer Anat Danieli commissioned Lider to compose the music for two of her pieces, “Kisses” and “October.” Shortly thereafter, he was tapped by Ohad Naharrin to compose the music for “Kaamos,” which Naharrin choreographed for the famous Dutch dance company, NDT. And at the young age of 21, Israel’s leading dance company, Bat Sheva, chose Lider to compose the entire score for Z/NA, making him the youngest person to compose an entire evening of music in the company’s history. In September 2011, Ivri has released “20 Seconds”, the new singel by “The Young Professionals.” Nowadays Ivri is concentrated in the making of his new album in hebrew. In the beginning of 2012, TYP were signed by Polydor Records, the french extension of the international music company, Universal. The record deal contains three records nationwide distribution, and also a world tour.

 

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Lihi Lapid

Author, Blogger

Lihi Lapid. Bestselling author, journalist, and speaker with a finger on the pulse of contemporary women’s issues.  Lapid has been writing a weekly newspaper column in Yediot Ahronot for ten years. She has written three bestselling novels – Secrets from Within, Woman of Valor, and I Can’t Always Be wonderful, and a bestselling children’s book. Prior to becoming a writer, Ms. Lapid was a professional news photographer. Her book, Woman of Valor, explores the real life struggles of women in modern society, and tells the story of her life as a mother of an autistic daughter. She lives with her husband (Yair Lapid, Head of the Yesh Atid Party and former Finance Minister) and their two children in Tel Aviv.

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Mamanet

Established in 2005 Mamanet –mothers Cachibol- league is the largest social – sports league specifically for mothers in Israel today.

Today with thousand of  mothers-players, in over 90 cities across Israel, Mamanet is now spreading  in many countries such as Austria, Italy, Greece, Cyprus & the US with additional countries pending.

Mamanet Israel is cooperating  with  “Hapoel”- the largest Israeli sport organization.

“Mamanet has the potential to change the sports society and the life of women for the better”! Harry Bauer, President of CSIT: “This was my first statement after having experienced Mamanet and it remains absolutely valid”. CSIT is acting globally as an accelerator for this movement.

The most important goal from a sports perspective is to hold a large international Mamanet Championship as part of of the 5th CSIT World Sports Games 2017 in Riga.

In Mamanet every mother can no barrier of age heights or weight
***Women age of 30 and up can participate the league

Mamanet is the only sports league for mothers.Mamanet allows mothers to revive their younger days as athletes, or experience being part of a sports league for the first time. In mamanet mothers of students in participating schools represent their children school with sportsmanship and pride  The league is based on children’s elementary, junior high and high schools,. Mothers bring back to school the championship cup to the school.

Mamanet is a combination of sports and community.  In Mamanet- Mothers demonstrates school pride, good sportsmanship, friendly and professional competition, fair play & a positive physical activity.

Mamanet runs across all populations :secular ultra-orthodox immigrants, new comers etc

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Nurah’s Kitchen – Druze Cuisine & Hospitality

The Druze people  are a small, arabic-speaking ethnic group residing primarily in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan.

In the Druze villages, women play an active and central role in community life. The women of the Husaysi family, whom we will be meeting, are a great example of just that.

After years working for Israel’s top chefs, Nurah Husaysi decided to open her own kitchen. A visit to Nurah’s kitchen offers a taste of traditional Druze dishes and wonderful hospitality.

In addition to her great cooking, Nurah and her sisters also offer authentic Druze food cooking classes and tours of the local market of Daliyat El Carmel.

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Ofra Abramovich

Founder at Mamanet

Founder of Mamanet – Mothers league, which is the largest women’s league and the 3rd most popular sport branch in Israel. Mamanet has thousands of active mother-players who participate in close to 1000 teams located in municipalities all over Israel, Cyprus, Austria, Italy, USA, Canada and Switzerland and more. Ofra devotes her life to promote Mamanet life’s philosophy where mothers should be able to belong to a sport team and thereby lead a healthy and active life. As such, those mothers become a personal example and a role model for their children and families. Mothers who participate in Mamanet have proved their ability to build a strong community which become a platform to emphasize school pride, good sportsmanship, professional competitions and enhancing community building and mutual aid. This model was not only been adopted by mothers from around the world, but also received recognition from government agencies, the UN, sport agencies such as CSIT, the National Olympic committee, health & lifestyle companies and more. The Ministry of Science is currently conducting a 3 years research Mamanet league increases social capital & promotes health and wellbeing Ofra holds a Bachelor degree in Psychology from Queens College, NYC and lives with her husband and 2 daughters in Kfar Saba, Israel, where she is also serves as the chairwoman of the women’s Volleyball Club Hapoel Kfar Saba.

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Ofra Strauss

Chairperson at Strauss Group

Ofra Strauss, Chairperson of the Board, Strauss Group, since 2001. Strauss Group is a global food and beverage company headquartered in Israel. The company operates in 18 countries and has 14,000 employees around the world. Ms. Strauss, who holds an LLB from Tel Aviv University, is dedicated to the promotion of social issues and has spent many years actively doing so. She is Chairperson of Ma’ala, Israel’s leading membership based organization promoting corporate responsibility. Ms. Strauss initiated the launch of Catalyst based census in Israel and is President of Jasmine, a non- profit promoting Jewish and Arab women who own small businesses. Since 2003 Ms. Strauss has been ranked between 42nd and 47th in Fortune’s List of the Most Powerful Women in Global Business.

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Sybil Goldfainer

Founder and CEO at Comme il faut

Sybil Goldfainer has a BA degree in economy from the Hebrew University in Jersusalem, participated in Lahav program for senior executives in Tel Aviv University and has her MA in gender studies, also from Tel Aviv University. In 1987, along with Carole Godin, she founded Comme Il Faut Fashion House. In 2002 Carole decided to give up the project and Sybil took over sole ownership of Comme Il Faut, a position she holds until this day. In 2017 Comme Il Faut celebrated its 30th anniversary, and now has 8 stores across Israel, one of them is Bayit Banamal (Harbor House), an exotic department store which houses Comme Il Faut’s flagship store, Coola – a women’s only spa and treatments center, The Restaurant and The Library.

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