Aliya Fastman - Citrus & Salt - Bringing flavors of the world to your home

04/27/20 • 31 min

Aliya is a Berkeley native, raised and influenced greatly by the rich Bay Area food scene. She brought this foundation for fabulous food with her and sought out the international offerings here in Israel. Realizing that much of what she was looking for was either not authentic, expensive, or inaccessible so she began making my favorite foods in my own kitchen. Everything from homemade tortillas, udon noodles and curries. Simultaneously, she started sharpening her skills in Israeli food - everything from shakshouka, to couscous to stuffed grape leaves with the goal of making these recipes accessible to non-Hebrew speakers.

At this time Aliya was pursuing an MA at Tel Aviv University and realizing she couldn't sustain waitressing forever, she decided to do what she loves and started to teach cooking. Drawing on the knowledge from her childhood, travels and what she had taught myself, she opened the school out of my own kitchen in 2016.

Since then, the school has flourished. she currently runs about 5 classes a week both in her home and in off-site locations, with both Israeli and international menus. she also partners with organizations and high tech companies to offer bigger classes for local professionals

About Citrus and Salt

Get a look into Tel Aviv life with this personalized cooking lesson. All classes are hosted by a local chef in their home where you can see, taste and smell the local food and spices. Israeli food is all about passion and we will channel that into the flavors we produce in the kitchen, making things that both taste delicious and can be made again and again in your own home. Classes generally span 3 hours depending on the menu one chooses- anything from classic Israeli dishes to Moroccan favorites to Jewish holiday pastries.
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Efrat Lev - Crossfit Trainer - Finding strength and discovering a passion

Efrat Lev was born in Israel and immigrated to Australia at the age of 5. Her parents were Chabad shlichim in Sydney and my father was the Rabbi of the Israeli community there. When she was 18.5 we moved back to Israel and settled in Efrat. She went to Midreshet Harova followed by Hebrew University where she got my degrees in International Relations and English Literature. She also married my husband, who she had met in Australia and they have 3 children.

Efrat had bad scoliosis and asthma growing up and wore a back brace throughout high school. She was very academic and sports was never her thing. She was always picked last for teams in school and always preferred to sit on the side and read a book during Physical Ed classes.

Efrat's pregnancies were extremely difficult because she suffers from a condition called Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG), unrelenting vomiting throughout pregnancy. Her last pregnancy six years ago was the most difficult. She was bed ridden, on IV medication and steroids and lost a lot of weight. While many women focus on losing their baby weight after giving birth, she only wanted to get stronger. What started as just walking gave way to strength training with 2kg dumbbells and it was literally love at first sight. She was fortunate to have a home gym as her husband is an ironman, as well as a doctor who has little time to get to a gym.
In that home gym she taught myself to powerlift with a small gym bar, a hell of a lot of YouTube tutorials and a real determination in my heart to never be weak again. When Crossfit opened in Efrat, a good friend told her she must try it out and even though she was still generally clumsy and hadn't trained in a group setting, she went. Crossfit truly skyrocketed my potential and within months she was lifting weight she never thought possible.
The owner and head coach casually suggested she go to Wingate to get certified as a health and fitness coach and after 11 years of being a stay at home mum, Efrat embarked on a year of study. Upon receiving my certification, she went on to get certified as a Crossfit Level 1 trainer and started working at Crossfit Gush. Along the way she also met her powerlifting coach who introduced me to the world of competitive lifting.
Although she trains men, women and children, her passion is to strength train women in all stages of life. There are so many myths and misconceptions regarding this field and it is her absolute passion to break the stereotypes and introduce women to the numerous benefits of strength training.
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Marta Mozes - How startups are bringing innovation and growth to Israel

Marta is the quintessential Aliyah story. Originally from Philadelphia, she fell in love with Israel at an early age, when she lived with her family for a year in the small desert town of Arad, at the age of 10. Really, even back then, she knew then she would one day be back in Israel for good.
After studying abroad here in both high school and college Israel became her second home and eventually, after graduating university in the States, Marta made aliyah 10 years ago.
Over the years Marta has had many jobs from a PR agency, to Masa Israel to
being one of the first employees at the music education startup, JoyTunes, where she was the community manager.
All these positions lead her to her current one, marketing manager at Google.
If you had told Marta, when she graduated from University, that one day she would be working at Google, she would have laughed in your face. She absolutely owes this to living in Israel, as her Israeli network opened doors one by one, taught her the skills, and led her to this incredible opportunity.
Marta is a true zionist, she believes Israel is an ongoing miracle she feels blessed to witness everyday. Even with the many things that still needs to improve in this country, she is excited to be part of the day to day evolution which is this country. Her work at Google, helping startups, she believes is an important part of the mission of Israel - to be a light upon the nation and bring innovation and growth to this country, and beyond.

When not working, she is traveling the world, for work. When not doing either of those, she is practicing her yoga, taking the long walk home, listening to a podcast or at home playing cards with her boyfriend.Marta is a big believer in positive thinking, manifestation and boutique Israeli wine.

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