Young families and professionals in Colorado are utilizing a sustainable micro-lending platform to support the financial resilience of Israeli small businesses. Through these digital grassroots initiatives, local youth are directly funding interest-free loans to help entrepreneurs recover and sustain their livelihoods.
Mood swings, intrusive thoughts, and anxiety that keeps me awake interfere with managing my business, but I trust that treatment, hope, and time are helping me heal
On this episode of the ILTV News Podcast, Executive Editor Maayan Hoffman sits down with Na’ama Ore, CEO of SparkIL, to explore how small businesses in Israel are surviving amid nearly two years of war.
When I first came to Israel in 2012, I was 17, alone, and unsure of what it meant to truly belong to a place. At the time, I was part of a program in which I expected to stay in Israel for about a year.
Na’ama Ore of SparkIL: ‘When we talk to the optimists, they say within a year or two Israel will be thriving’. Will Israel’s economy recoup by 2026? According to Na’ama Ore of SparkIL, “it depends who you ask.”
Along the rolling hills of the Golan Heights, Shiri Levy stands among wooden cabins that overlook the Sea of Galilee, watching as construction workers install new pools and repair damaged exteriors.
Along the rolling hills of the Golan Heights, Shiri Levy stands among wooden cabins that overlook the Sea of Galilee, watching as construction workers install new pools and repair damaged exteriors.
SparkIL enlists global support for Israel’s small-business struggle via a system of interest-free loans.
The platform, currently being established by the Jewish Agency and Ogen Group
The platform, currently being established by the Jewish Agency and Ogen Group
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