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Instructor: Introduction to International Investing and Financial Planning

Douglas, married, father of four, is the owner and director of Profile. He began his career on Wall Street in 1992 at Dean Witter. After developing a successful practice in New York, Doug moved with his wife and family to Israel. Doug is a licensed financial professional both in the U.S. and Israel. He is accredited by the Israel Securities Authority as an investment advisor, holds the designations of Certified Financial Planner™, Registered Investment Advisor, and Trust and Estate Practitioner, and is a member of both the Financial Planning Association and of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. Doug is frequently invited to give lectures as well as teach college courses on investing. He is often invited to comment on financial affairs on the radio, TV, and in local and international newspapers. He also serves as a trainer and consultant to banks in Israel. His advice appears weekly in the Jerusalem Post, he hosts a weekly radio show about investing, and he is the author of the book, Building Wealth in Israel: A Guide to International Investments and Financial Planning.

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Application Development for the Web Using PHP

Dynamic Web Pages with JavaScript

Yitzchak emigrated to Israel from the United States with his wife and three children in 2008. He has over 13 years experience in the technology field working on some of the latest software, application development platforms and programming languages. He has experience in both commercial and government contracting and currently works at the Israel Ministry of Finance as a programmer. His approach to teaching is to challenge the student to think and to always have their end goal in mind. He continually shapes his courses to the needs of the students so no two course presentations are ever the same. He holds his students to a high standard as he prepares them for a programming career either as an employee or as the owner of their own web business. He appreciates curiosity, determination, and initiative in his students.

Instructor: Introduction to Web Design & Flash

Baruch moved to Israel from the United States with his family in 2005 after years of experience in web design working in freelance and in studios. He has close to 15  years experience in web design, development and emerging technologies,   Pulling from years spent in both the public and private sectors, he currently works in freelance for clients worldwide and has been teaching web design for several years.  He is always looking for new topics of discussion and methods of engaging the students in the process of design and development helping them towards their career goals.

Instructor: Introduction to Microsoft Office 2007

Eric has been an IT Consultant, Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP, MCITP, MCSE, MCSA, MCTS and MCT) and Linux trained professional  for  over 12 years.  He has extensive experience in  progressively advanced IT with expertise in System Engineering and Design, Project Management, Corporate Sales, IT Training, IT Support and Customer Retention. He currently is CEO and founder  of MIS Support, and MIS Support Israel.

Instructor: Graphic Design

Adobe Photoshop

A qualified graphic designer, illustrator and free artist who studied and graduated with the late Prof. Hans Seeger z”l in Munich, Germany, as best of her class. She has years of experience working as a freelance designer for various agencies in Munich (Germany) and since 2001 for her own studio in Munich – and Israel after her Aliya in October 2006. For over 7 years Yehudis was a free lecturer at the Macromedia Academy for New Media in Munich, teaching classes of Digital Media Designers, Media Designers Print & Non Print and Bachelor of Media Management. After her Aliyah, she has been teaching at various schools in the Jerusalem area.

Mark Ginsberg

Instructor: Internet Marketing and Social Media

Mark is currently working as  the Search Marketing Manager at Matan Media, a Jerusalem-based Internet Marketing firm specializing in Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, Web Design, Pay Per Click Advertising, and Conversion Rate Optimization. Before joining Matan Media, Mark was a member of the Yad Vashem Internet Team. You can catch him on Twitter (@markginsberg),  Google+, Facebook, or his blog, where he’s usually posting about the web, online marketing, his family, or the travails of travelling on Jerusalem Egged buses.

Abigail Moskovits

Instructor: ESL- English as a Second Language

Adult English

Bagrut English

Abigail Moskovits has been a classroom English teacher for the past nine years.  She specializes in English as a Second or Other Language (ESOL) and has extensive experience preparing students for the Israeli standardized tests as well as preparing them to be comfortable and competent English speakers.  She has worked at the Keshet High School as well as The Evelina deRothschild-Tehila High School. She received her Bachelors Degree from Yeshiva University in Psychology and her Masters of Science degree from SUNY Albany in Curriculum Development and Instructional Technology, which had a focus on E-learning and web communication.  She received her teaching certification from the David Yellin College of Education in Jerusalem.  Abigail is a mother to four and owns a specialty cake business.