Our interview this week is with the CEO and Founder of SunHouse Marketing, which is a digital marketing firm based out of Beit Shemesh, Israel. Fran is an Olah from Toronto who came her in the late-90's with her husband and children. In this episode, Fran shares with us: - Important advice for Olim looking to start businesses - Insight into what a …

Hello, fellow entrepreneurs. We're back and this week Alex interviews Nachum Kligman who is an oleh that lives in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel and made aliyah from Passaic, New Jersey. Nachum is the founder of the SaaS company Book Like a Boss, which allows business owners to keep their lives better organized. Book Like a Boss has done well over a mi…

Stephanie Hodes is an Olah from South Africa who found the hiring process in Israel extraordinarily difficult. As a solution, she founded Urban Recruits, which works with olim to set them up at jobs that are right for them. They act as intermediaries between the applicant and the hiring company in order to ensure that all the cards are on the table…

Welcome back everyone! We have returned and are better than ever. We are taking steps to providing you with the most valuable and useful content possible. This interview is with Brian Polonsky, an oleh from Los Angeles who formed his own head hunting firm. Brian came from a world of organizing 8-figure deals to having to start all over from a new c…

This episode is something very special for you. Yoram is an artist who grew up in New Jersey, travelled all around Europe after college and finally landed in Israel. After a long journey of becoming an artist, getting married and raising four wonderful children, a fire burnt down Yoram's studio taking over 1,500 of his original paintings in the pro…

First thing is first. Due to technical difficulties, this episode is not the greatest audio quality we've had. With that said, this episode is still full of wisdom and truth nuggets about being an entrepreneur in Israel, especially as an oleh. In this episode we dive into: - The beauty of the Israeli army and how it is a perfect place for entrepren…

This is the story of an Oleh who found himself strapped for cash, no job and contemplating the possibility that Aliyah was a mistake. Instead of giving in, our interviewee, LiAmi, founded the organization Keep Olim which has 10's of thousands of members in their Facebook group from a mind-boggling 100 countries. In their own words, "KeepOlim is a n…

Moises Zack is a senior mortgage consultant with the First Israel Mortgages firm based in the holy city of Jerusalem. Zack got his start in business by following in his father's footsteps in the diamond industry and made the career switch to helping people navigate the Israeli mortgage system some time ago. In this interview Moises gives us: - Very…

Shlomo Mirvis is the Co-Founder and CEO of Intelligo Group , the world's leading AI powered background check company. Before starting Intelligo, Shlomo was a commander in the IDF and a lawyer. Shlomo is a child of Olim from South Africa and has inherited his South African accent while on Shlihut with his parents from age 6 months - 6 years old. In …

Thank you all for coming back for another interview. This week is we are with Sacha Gorelik, an olah who came to Israel with her family when she was 14 years old, who is also a wife, mother and someone who runs her own company. Sacha specializes in writing copy for people selling on amazon that can help boost their sales and create a brand identity…

Welcome back to another episode of Ascending: Olim Entrepreneurship Playbook. This week Alex interviews Aaron Applbaum who is a partner at MizMaa. Taken from MizMaa's website, "MizMaa is working with the deep technology innovators emerging from Israel’s high tech sector. We are providing long term investment capital, and years of investment, market…

Welcome back everybody to Ascending: The Olim Entrepreneurship Podcast! This week, as hinted to in the title, Alex interviewed Yoni Kayman who is the founder and CEO of Magnum Bikes Inc. His company manufactures and distributes electric bikes and was actually the first electric bike company in Israel. Yoni actually comes from the background of bein…

Thank you so much for stopping by! This week's episode is with Jeremy Welfeld, an Oleh from Washington DC who came to Israel with his wife and two kids. There are so many informative and inspiring things discussed in the interview, however one point that Jeremy stressed, perhaps above all others, was how big of a role patience played in his establi…

Thank you so much for stopping by! This week's interview focuses on Jay Shultz, founder and president of the Am Yisrael Foundation. Some key points touched upon during our conversation were: - Why Tel-Aviv is the center of the Jewish world - The lacking of a sense of community in Israel and how he counteracts it - The integral role olim have played…

Please enjoy this powerful episode with VC Michael Granoff of Maniv Mobility. In this episode we touch upon topics such as: - Israel's place in the VC ecosystem - The importance of developing clear energies particularly for transportation - Michael's role in Better Place, a revolutionary and ambitious company that looked to bring electric cars to I…

Please enjoy this raw episode and insightful episode with Yoel Israel, CEO Wadi Digital. Some of the topics we covered: Why one should always be saying No to clients? How raising prices makes you a better service provider? Why Yoel moved back to Philadelphia for 3 years and invested in real estate in the Philly ghetto? How hiring an awesome digital…