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the Israel travel experience. In ho-
tels, museums and restaurants,
they hold positions of responsi-
bility. Their success is a new vari-
ation of the American dream: the
chance to build a new life in a
place of opportunity.
it.
Ilona Boitov seized that
Seated at a large desk in Henry Safir
odelist opportunity as quickly as
the spacious lounge, she is for a m
sc ulptor
she could. After taking a
makes phone calls, sends
Fra nk
training course for hotel re-
faxes, handles check-out pro-
Mei sler.
ceptionists, she landed a job
cedures and takes care of
other details for the business at the Carlton Hotel in Tel Aviv.
Fourteen months later, when she
guests who use this lounge.
She does it all with ease and learned that the Moriah Plaza ho-
competence — quite an accom- tel was re-opening as the Radis-
plishment for a woman of 22 who son Moriah after extensive
was a total newcomer to Israel renovation, she decided to try for
and to the hotel industry five a new position as hostess in the
business lounge, which caters to
years ago.
"I didn't know even one word of sophisticated business travelers.
"It was a chance to gain new
Hebrew when we first came," says
Dona, a native of Odessa who em- skills," says the personable host-
igrated with her family in1991 as ess, who regularly meets hotel
part of a large wave of Jewish im- guests from the Middle East, Eu-
migration from the former Soviet rope and the United States. "I love
Union. Now she's proud to hold a working here," she says. "And I
position of responsibility in a lux- know that I want to make hotels
my career."
ury hotel.
Elena Kogan also came to Is-
For motivated young people
like this, Russian dreams are com- rael five years ago. And she, too,
ing true in Israel. When they first has found challenging work, in
arrived, they had to learn a new her case as a guide fora new art
language, struggle to adapt, ac- museum in Old Jaffa.
Opened one year ago, the [Lana
cept entry level jobs. But now,
many have reached the stage of Goor Museum is named for the Is-
raeli sculptor and art collector who
carving out promising careers.
Meeting these young Russians converted her own private resi-
adds an interesting dimension to dence into a museum focusing on

F

rom the windows of the 17th
floor business lounge of the
Radisson Moriah Plaza in
Tel Aviv, there's a sweeping
view of sky and sea. But Ilona
Boitov is much too busy to enjoy