Global Entrepreneurial and Business Network Connector
"Thrive in Israel" Mentor and Matchup founded 2009
Seven Years of Conversations in Israel
Storyteller, Art Books and Podcast
Citizen Of Zion - COZ
Art Dealer and fine art publisher since 1977
Elevated Art from the Holy Land
GATI Art for a Cause - minted in 2016
Abilities -• Master Networker in Hebrew and English.• Strategist and Visionary.• Relationship Selling of a product or service.• Pyramid of Success by Coach John Wooden.• Understanding the human side of technology.• Biblical Archeologist focussed on Dead Sea Scrolls. Dad, grandfather and a coach.Guest lecturer at Princeton, Yale, Haas, TAU, UNC, UCLA Anderson School and TASE Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Taglit-Birthright Innovation Center.
Raphael founded the Aliyah Fund, Iconic Art Master and GATI Art for a Cause. He is an author @sevenyearsofconversations. He was the founding partner at PANG Art, eframe.com and GNPFrame.com, the largest wholesale custom picture framing operation in North America.Gallery Raphael art gallery owner in Los Angles, San Francisco, Dallas, NYC, Florence, Zurich and Tel Aviv- Jaffa. Developed software in the studio photography industry that helped transform analog film to digital points of sale, co-marketing with Canon, Nikon, Kodak, and Shutterfly. Raphael has spent the last 30 years mentoring and coaching entrepreneurs, artists and Olim. Raphael was born in NYC, raised on a kibbutz in Israel, and completed his high school education in Los Angeles. He attended UCLA studying art history and played USVBA volleyball,. Eventually moved back to Israel and
studied archeology at Bar Ilan University.