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HEATH

Arbor as well and attends 
NEXTGen and The Well 
events.
To manage the disease, 
Wettenstein stays active 
and makes exercising a 
priority. This helps her 
relieve stress, an important 
lifestyle habit for people 
with IBD (since stress is a 
major trigger for flares).
“I just want people to 
be more aware that this 
is a physical illness,” she 
says. “We may look healthy 
on the outside, but we’re 
feeling awful on the inside.”
Wettenstein hopes 
that more resources will 
become available to teach 
people about the condition. 
“It’s a difficult disease, and 
not a lot of people know 
about IBD,” she explains.
She also hopes 
living with IBD will 
be normalized in the 
workplace. Wettenstein 
calls herself lucky at 
the moment because 
her coworkers are 
understanding of her 
need to sometimes leave 
work early to manage her 
condition, but that wasn’t 
always the case.
Previous jobs weren’t 
as understanding, and 
she struggled to get the 
time off she needed for 
important appointments.
“If someone is 
experiencing a flare, be 
kind to them,” she advises. 
“I want people to realize 
we’re not faking it. It’s a 
tough disease and there’s 
no cure. I want there to be 
a cure.” 

To get tickets for “There’s No 

Place Like Hope”, visit https://www.

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evening-of-hope-4.

BUSINESS

I

n an innovative move to 
continue deepening its 
bench of sophisticated 
transactional attorneys, 
Honigman LLP has launched 
an Israeli subsidiary, Honigman 
Law Israel (HLI), to tap into the 
best Wall Street legal talent.
Through HLI, Honigman 
provides a unique path for 
U.S.-educated, licensed and 
experienced attorneys who wish 
to relocate their homes to Israel 
while maintaining their U.S. 
M&A, Capital Markets, Venture 
Capital, Real Estate and Life 
Science practices.
For prospective candidates, 
HLI offers an opportunity 
to continue practicing on 
complex U.S. legal matters at 
compensation levels based on 
Honigman’s U.S. scale. Setting 
it apart from other U.S. law 
firms that may have one or 
two attorneys in Israel working 
from their home offices, HLI 
is structured to enable its 
attorneys to work on the Israeli 
schedule, where the workweek 
is Sunday through Thursday, 
and based on the local time 
zone. 
HLI is creating a community 
of attorneys, giving these new 

residents of Israel a built-in 
professional and personal 
support group.
HLI has announced 
the hiring of its first five 
attorneys: Sam Katz, Corporate 
& Capital Markets, who joined 
from Ellenoff Grossman & 
Schole LLP (New York); Inbar 
Rauchwerger, Mergers & 
Acquisitions, who joined 
from Goodwin Procter LLP 
(New York); Aviv Avnon, 
Finance, who joined from 
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 
(New York); David Snyder, Tax, 
who will be joining upon his 
relocation to Israel, whose U.S. 
experience includes Roberts & 
Holland LLP and Paul Weiss; 
and Rachel Rhodes, Corporate 
& Capital Markets, who will 
be joining in September, 
whose U.S. experience includes 
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw 
Pittman LLP and Fried Frank. 
More hires are anticipated in 
the near future.
“We’re honored to bring 
on these five top-notch 
attorneys from some of the 
most prominent law firms in 
the U.S. and expect to bring in 
many more highly qualified 

individuals through this 
initiative,
” said Honigman CEO 
and Chair David Foltyn. “We 
have continued to see incredible 
demand for our transactional 
counsel, which, in turn, requires 
that we continue to grow with 
the most talented lawyers. With 
HLI, we have created a win-win 
opportunity for A+ attorneys 
who want to reside in Israel for 
personal reasons but did not 
have a path to do so, and for 
Honigman, which can deepen 
and expand the great talent we 
can devote to our clients.
”
The development of this 
concept is an outgrowth of 
Honigman’s years of intimate 
familiarity with Israel-United 
State business dealings and 
the reduced significance of 
geography realized through the 
pandemic. The implementation 
of this strategy, including 
working through myriad tax, 
ethical and legal challenges, 
required the better part of a 
year of investment. As shown 
by the first five hires, the value 
of the investment already has 
been proven. 

Submitted by Honigman LLP.

Move will help lawyers maintain their U.S. 
practices while living in the Jewish State.

Honigman LLP Adds 
Israel Subsidiary

David 
Foltyn

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