Aryeh Rapaport
Founder, BridgePoint Israel
I'm 40, living in Jerusalem with my wife and our four children. This isn't a business I run remotely — it's the city I raise my kids in.
I built BridgePoint after watching too many people go through the same thing: they'd spend a lifetime earning the right to own a home here, then lose all control of it the moment they flew home. A quote that doubled. Work that had to be torn out and redone. Months of silence, with no way to know from abroad whether anything they'd been told was true.
I didn't think that was an acceptable cost of building a life in Israel. So the structure is simple: providers compete for every phase of work, everything gets verified in person before a payment is released, and I take no commission from anyone I recommend — which means I have no reason to look away from a problem.
This is the one thing I do. Not a side project — it's how I've built a livelihood in Israel while staying close to my family, and why I still take these calls myself.
If you're thinking about buying, building, or renovating here, I'd like to hear where you're at. No pitch — just a conversation.
— Aryeh