Deb is a lifelong Chicagoan, growing up, marrying, and raising her own family there. Following a long and successful career as a lawyer, Deb turned her vocational efforts to two of her deepest passions: Israel and philanthropy. She has had leadership roles in numerous Jewish and Israel-centric charities and continues in that vein, including efforts to help grow the population (getting young people to stay or move back from the center and getting others to move from the center of Israel to the Galilee) and to introduce further-afield US communities to Israel’s great successes in the environment and community building. In order to put her passions for Israel and philanthropy in context, Deb furthered her education and recently completed her Masters of Arts in Jewish Professional Studies at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago, Her love for Israel led her to start her own Israel travel business back in 2010. Since then she has continued to work to bring more and more people to Israel to see Israel in new and innovative ways, and she now focuses much of her efforts on Israel travel that combines both philanthropy and experiential travel.