On August 30 2023, senior figures from the real estate world gathered at Reichman University. The occasion was the presentation of the final projects - on business development in the field of real estate - by the sixth cohort of students in the real estate track within the MBA Program at the Arison School of Business. The track is headed by Prof. Amnon Lehavi and is run in cooperation with the G City Real Estate Institute.
The students worked on the projects for several months, guided by course lecturers CPA Tomer Tepper, chairman of EWAVE and Adv. Rani Timor, an expert on income-producing real estate expert and entrepreneur, and teaching assistant Tohar Deri-Dvir. The students received support from mentors from the real estate industry. In the framework of their final projects, the students conducted an economic, planning, and business analysis of projects involving four tracts of land owned by the companies Mivne Real Estate, Shikun & Binui, Acro Real Estate, and Mega Or.
The judges’ panel was comprised of Zahi Arabov, founder, owner and chairman of Acro Real Estate; Dan Gingis, VP of Marketing at Acro Real Estate; Tal Forer, owner and chairman of Mivne; Uzi Levy, CEO of Mivne; Dudu Zebaida, former CEO of Mivne; Tamir Cohen, CEO of Shikun & Binui; Assaf Bachar, chief engineer at Shikun & Binui; Alon Badash, chief of staff Shikun & Binui; Golan Eini, deputy CEO of Mega Or; Nimrod Ben Yehuda, director of the Licensing Department at Mega Or; Sharon Schweppe, chair of Menivim – The New REIT Ltd.; Ofer Avram, CEO of Menivim – The New REIT Ltd.; and Itai Reshef, CEO of Shviro Land.
Among the mentors who advised the students were Clara Zwergel, director of the Construction and Real Estate Sector at Bank Hapoalim; Yuval Talmi, head of Corporate Real Estate at Bank Leumi; Tal Nehenson, corporate real estate analyst at Bank Leumi; Sarel Winkler, architect at Acro Real Estate; Yossi Shalev, CEO and owner of Waxman Govrin Geva Engineering, Ltd.; Adv. Amitay Levy, managing partner and co-head of the Real Estate, Planning and Construction Department at Goldfarb Gross Seligman; Adv. Israel Aziel, partner and co-head of the Real Estate, Planning and Construction Department at Goldfarb Gross Seligman; architect Yoni Grosswasser, senior partner at Yashar Architects; architect Adi Davidov, partner at Yashar Architects; Larry Garner, broker at Cushman & Wakefield Inter Israel; Phil Rosenberg, broker at Cushman & Wakefield Inter Israel; Haim Toronto, broker at Cushman & Wakefield Inter Israel; Marla Odes, broker at Newmark Natam; Moshe Miller, broker at Newmark Natam; Yoav Sheinkin, real estate appraiser and senior partner at Barak Friedman Kapelner Shimkevitz & Co.; appraiser Gil Seton, Yaron Spector, real estate appraiser; Itai Shafran, financial consultant; and Eyal Kugel, deputy CEO and partner at Massad Oz.
Pictured: Graduates of the program’s sixth cohort with Prof. Amnon Lehavi, head of the Real Estate Track in Reichman University’s MBA program, course lecturers CPA Tomer Tepper, chairman of EWAVE and Adv. Rani Timor, income-producing real estate expert and entrepreneur, and Adv. Idit Zeelon Rozen, the track coordinator, at the Adelson School of Entrepreneurship on the Reichman University campus.
Pictured: The judges’ panel, mentors, course lecturers, and staff of the G City Real Estate Institute in the Adelson Entrepreneurship Building on the Reichman University campus.
