Shanna Fuld

28/08/2024

The last specialty event I hosted was so fun and so meaningful.

I came up with the idea for a Tribe Tel Aviv cocktail event when I saw a stunning new hotel bar while on a walk one day. I noticed Ziv, whom I’ve worked with at another venue in the past. When we spoke, he told me his story of being a bartender at the Nova music festival… and his story of survival.

After 6 months in reserve duty, and working with a therapist, he joins us back in the world of hospitality. He told our impressive Olim community his story while mixing everyone espresso martinis. 🍸☕️

He told the crowd of internationals that by the end of his experience surviving and then serving in the IDF, he’s found a new sense of proud patriotism & Zionism — empowered by being able to serve in the army with people of every shape, color, background and affiliation. He also says this experience has led him to get closer to Gd and understand the importance of knowing the story of the Jewish people.

The room was abslutely silent and everyone was listening intently. It was certainly an unusual cocktail night.

We finished the talk with a toast and our community stayed well into the night mingling, exchanging ideas and meeting new people. I would say my whole vision was realized ❤️

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19/08/2024

Shots from last week’s Sunset Series event with Middle East analyst Iftah Burman and some special guests who came to hear the talk…

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06/06/2024

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13/05/2024

At this point, when I’m in the US I am too culturally Israeli. When I’m in Israel, I am too culturally American. I guess I’m both. Yom HaAtzmaut sameach. Happy Israel Independence day.

To those who have never worked to build up a nation … you’ll just never appreciate what it means. This country was built on swamps. Just like Howard Beach 😂 If you know, you know.

This rendition of Hatikvah (Israel’s national anthem which means “Hope”) is very famous and was done by Jewish American legend Leonard Bernstein.

08/04/2024

Last week was intense as I interviewed people who have been working first hand with orphans from the October 7th attack. Sunday to Wednesday were dedicated to research, phone conversations and calling people uncomfortably looking for “October 7th orphans.”

Wednesday morning at 4:30 am as I penned the last paragraph I was overcome by an anxiety attack. It was only the second or third true full body panic I’ve experienced as part of my work since the October 7th massacre of my people.

The work keeps us occupied and focused, but the mind is still processing all the emotions that we are too busy to deal with.

This Jerusalem Post Magazine cover story (released this past weekend) gets more touching as you inch toward the close. I’ll include the JPost link in my story post.

02/04/2024

The Sunset Series program is an opportunity for internationals in Tel Aviv to not only meet each other, but to get inspired by different people who are working in a variety of fields. Monday night’s event was amongst our most unique so far — as we hosted .tzur who spoke about her 25 years as a model, actress and producer in the entertainment industry.

The takeaways include learning how to juggle different roles until your favorite becomes Number 1 and learning how to adapt into each stage of life and make your age and experience work for you and your wallet. Did you know that models can earn more the older they get?

I love the title of Tzur’s book “Anonymously Famous”. She signed a copy for me and wrote a quote I’ll take with me everywhere — “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” Originally stated by author Napoleon Hill.

02/04/2024

The Sunset Series program is an opportunity for internationals in Tel Aviv to not only meet each other, but to get inspired by different people who are working in a variety of fields. Monday night’s event was amongst our most unique so far — as we hosted .tzur who spoke about her 25 years as a model, actress and producer in the entertainment industry.

One of our event attendees is working on his modeling portfolio, and I was so thrilled he got a chance to connect and get some real advice.

The takeaways for the rest of us include learning how to juggle different roles until your favorite becomes Number 1 and learning how to adapt into each stage of life and make your age and experience work for you and your pocket book. Did you know that models can earn more the older they get?

I love the title of Tzur’s book “Anonymously Famous”. Tzur signed a copy for me and wrote a quote I’ll take with me everywhere — “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” Originally stated by author Napoleon Hill.

21/03/2024

The first ever Israel Daily News LIVE podcast event was meant to get current leaders thinking about their power to create new leaders. 💪

I envisioned taking my daily recorded podcast (running for four years) 🎙️and executing it in a live taping with ALL the elements in full swing. That included a live DJ set by the extremely talented Erika Krall and a live song by the international sensation Nicole Raviv. I got introduced to both of these inspiring women years back when reviewing their music submissions meant to be featured at the end of the Israel Daily News Podcast. Today we are good friends.

The recorded event had the best of the best. Our show was taped in a Tel Aviv nightclub where we started out with a sunset DJ set. I opened the show by explaining how the Israel Daily News was founded. It began with a google doc in the spring of 2020.

After doing a classic IDNP opener, I anchored our top five news stories of the day. Ambassador Ido Aharoni opened the evening discussion with remarks on the war, Israel’s brand internationally and a charming story about how he met U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres when he visited Israel …long before he ever became a New York Congressman.

I was so proud of the panelists who came to speak about leadership and encouraging the next generation of Israeli pioneers. It’s important to carve open pathways for new voices and ideas, especially as this war-torn nation (and the world) go through radical change.

The esteemed panel included Member of Knesset Sharren Haskel, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Liat Cohen-Raviv, Tal Guberman (Young leader, Kineret Program, 23) and Halel Ben Nahoum (Amb. with Israeli Center for Young Leaders, 17).

Thank you to Mary Ann Voellinger for unending support of our emerging outlet.

The show closed out with a moving rendition of ‘Hallelujah’ sung by Nicole Raviv in English, Arabic and Hebrew. She invited all Israel Daily News LIVE guests to join in the prayer. And now, I invite you. Pray for peace. Become a leader. Help raise others.

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30/01/2024

What do you do? 💁‍♀️ Let me explain my 2️⃣ roles in life.

I’m a full time journalist. It’s my passion, my career and my identity. I am the founder of the Israel Daily News, which is a boutique news outlet. I run and operate a podcast, newsletter and multiple social media outlets. I work every day except for on Shabbat! There’s a lot more you can expect to come from my outlet as well. When I’m not investing my brain into my business, I’m writing and publishing in newspapers, carrying out research for films and documentaries, producing and anchoring news shows and hosting live conferences.

But there’s another huge part of my life that I’ve dedicated myself to since 2019 — and that’s being a Zionist leader for Olim Chadashim (new immigrants) in Tel Aviv. Through Tribe Tel Aviv, an organization which I helped to launch (and name!) 🚀 with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman, I am able to bring ideas to creative, intellectual people who are actively engaging themselves in society. I believe Olim are and should be part of Israel’s future leadership.

Our flagship program, the Sunset Series is an event I host on Monday evenings at various upscale bars and restaurants around the city. The aim is to inspire people in their 20s and 30s by getting exposed to working professionals who are making a difference for Israel, the Jewish people, the Middle East and the whole world. By seeing shining examples, it gives us the encouragement we need to become shining examples.

Last week we hosted Zippy Brand Frank, an Emmy award-winning producer and former Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv who is now running for office in Tel Aviv as #2 behind Mayoral candidate Orna Barbivai. Tel Aviv’s mayor Ron Huldai has been in office since 1998.

After our talks, we always have a question and answer where people get a chance to get more details and even give speakers something to think about.

I’m proud of the community we have grown, the societal changes we have made through these weekly forums and the relationships that have been born out of this work.

I look forward to stepping into the next chapter of Israeli history with immigrant leadership and diverse thought and vision within. Join me. ✨

02/01/2024

New Year 2024 in Tel Aviv🎁🎊✨💫 with girlfriends who lift me up 🥹 I’m blessed. Thanks to everyone who came out for Tribe Tel Aviv’s night of comedy. We all desperately needed to laugh 2023 off and out of our systems.

30/11/2023

I’m fascinated at how day 2 was more widely listened to than day 1.

Nevertheless. It’s been a lot. 🇮🇱📰🚨🗞️🎙️🎤‼️

29/11/2023

I find it so powerful when a woman invites another woman to join her in the spotlight. And that’s what did on Monday night! Literally and metaphorically.

Thanks Daniella for your work bringing Yiddish music from the ghettos to the NYC stage… some 85 years later with your off-Broadway musical show “Amid Falling Walls.”

I was in tears in the audience hearing songs that never should have been written … but were found and recovered from paper scraps, writings on walls, and diaries of children who were not even old enough to have a Bar Mitzvah. The songs were so mature and so full of pain. That art lived on. Did you know there were Jewish cabarets in the ghettos?

There were too many chilling parallels to today. I had to hold Nicole’s hand. Too many thoughts racing through my head as I lived through a dark history with song, dance and superimposed photos in the wings highlighting Jews who had stood up.

At the end of her show, Daniella welcomed and I to the stage to discuss our work as performers (me as a broadcast journalist) while actually living through a war…less than a century after the last one that nearly obliterated my people. We still have not repopulated to the numbers we had in the 1930s.

Thanks to & for doing exactly what your programming was meant to do — bring Jewish professionals together to create more.

30/10/2023

Wednesday, November 1st I’ll be addressing Buffalo’s Jewish Federation via Zoom to give an update from Israel and take questions from the crowd of Western New Yorkers!

Join us!

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27/09/2023

Doing a last minute Instagram live interview on my personal () page today about my experience dealing with anti-religious (I will repeat. Anti-religious) protesters at Habima square Sunday evening while running Tribe Tel Aviv’s prayer. If you are confused why I am saying anti-religious protesters or have a contrasting opinion, tune in at 7:15 pm until 7:45 pm Israel time.

Join in to hear my story and leave questions and comments with your thoughts.

Thank you for offering to interview me about this important topic.

20/09/2023

I saw the e-mail just before Rosh Hashannah. Jewish top 100! My heart was filled as I entered the new year and was an hour away from hosting a group of brand new immigrants in my home for Rosh Hashannah dinner.

It is my honor and joy to give people unbiased news from Israel in the place where people are getting it — online and in podcast form! And it is a mission I never thought I would participate in — welcoming and guiding newcomers to the Holy Land. Through my media and my in-person events.

I had been sad to find out several weeks ago that I could never qualify for the Jerusalem Post list of top 50 Jews because I work for The Jerusalem Post 😂👀.

I am so please has put together their own list with impressive other people on it like Gal Gadot, Noa Tishby, Doja Cat and internet sensation 100-year-old fashionista Iris Appel.

12/09/2023

Me. Make-up-less. In my sport suit having come from a weeknight swim to heal my soul and get a few minutes of movement into my body.

Me smiling and just accepting an impromptu shoot from on the boardwalk. Instead of coming up with a reason for why not.

Me in Tel Aviv doing my best to make it happen. September 2023

26/07/2023

Thank you for highlighting the Israel Daily News Podcast as the first on your list of news shows to listen to. We appreciate your audience and listenership!

Israel 365 is an excellent company which does a lot of kindness for Israelis, Ukrainian refugees, hungry people in the country and also gives media access to so many Christians interested in the Holy Land. I am ever impressed and grateful for this company. Plus all of the staff are so pleasant and professional.

Keep doing what you're doing, Israel365!

21/06/2023

Join us Monday evening for a talk by … me!

I’ll give over the details about my 6-month research for Ghosts of Beirut, a Showtime series by the writers of Fauda!

For this impressive four part series, ibinterviews heads of state, Mossad agents and soldiers who spent a lot of time at the border between Israel and Lebanon.

I’ve learned some fascinating things and now I’ll share them with you… over cocktails at the Stolero at sunset!

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Speakers, cocktails and young TLV community : Happy hour, but better...

20/06/2023

An evening with Yair Shamir, son of Israel’s 7th Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. The Prime Minister is pictured in the last slide.

We spoke on Israeli/US relations, business and immigration.

Mr. Shamir moved from business to politics (Minister of Agriculture) back into business and strongly believes the high tech sector is the next step of progress as Israel develops. He would know. His father was a top member in the Lehi, an underground group responsible for pushing British occupiers out of Palestine using guerilla warfare before the State gained sovereignty and was named Israel.

I asked Mr. Shamir how he responds to those who call today’s Palestinian terrorists “freedom fighters”.

Listen to my show, the Israel Daily News Podcast to hear his response.

01/06/2023

I’m soo excited for this Monday’s Sunset Series. And that’s because this is the first time I’ll be the speaker!

I’ll be revealing all about my experience as a researcher working with the best in the business - Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz. The writers of Fauda and now the new hit show “Ghosts of Beirut” producer by Showtime.

I spent 6 months on research for this docu-drama. Come listen to my stories.

Register for free.

Speakers, cocktails and young TLV community : Happy hour, but better...

01/06/2023

I have a secret. 🤐I was the Israel researcher for the latest show by the creators of Fauda, called “Ghosts of Beirut”.

The premier was Thursday night and writer Avi Issacharoff thanked me from the podium in front of all the guests who sat together to watch the nail-biting episode 1.

For the research, I held interviews with a number of heads of state, army generals and war Veterans from the first and second Lebanon wars to uncover the rise of Hezbollah and the eventual capture of Imad Mughniyeh by the CIA and Mossad together.

The research took me 6 months between 2021 and 2022. And finally… the show is out.

The 4-part series was produced by Showtime and is dropping now in the USA. It has also been picked up by YES network here in Israel.

Working with Avi and was a career highlight and not because they are such stars, but because they are true professionals who care about the quality of their craft.

I can honestly say I’ve learned from the best.

Join me Monday night as I take the stage at the Sunset Series to discuss my work with

18/04/2023

Here’s article number two.

I came up with the idea for this while observing all the social media influencers who were invited to cover the march due to their enormous followings using their cell phones.

Read this and comment with your thoughts? Which side do you take?

Can people be educated using social media?

Studies show that millennials and Gen-Z do not know enough about the Holocaust, but social media could be a way to reach them with more knowledge.

18/04/2023

Commemorate the Holocaust by reading my latest news piece on the March of the Living.

It was written with cold little fingers in the media tent and some tears welling up in my eyes.

13,000 attend March of the Living • Israeli tech start-up uses AI to revive stories of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

27/02/2023

Wednesday I was featured in a live national news report on the “Morning Rush” where I spent 5+ minutes explaining why so many are protesting the Israeli government’s push to make reforms of the current supreme court.

Anchor Lindsay Tuchman interviewed me live from the Scripps newsroom in Atlanta, Georgia.

I was introduced as Shanna Fuld, CEO of the Israel Daily News Podcast.

22/02/2023

A little TV magic 🌈
Me acting as me for a short clip! 💫

06/02/2023

Join us Tuesday, February 7th at 4 pm Israel time and 9 am EST to get a deeper understanding of the proposed Supreme Court reforms and why the government thinks overhauling the current systems is such a good idea.

Who will be breaking this down for you? None other than former Ambassador the US Michael Oren who now runs and organization called Israel 2048 which looks to our country’s future.

Amb. Oren is an excellent speaker and will be presenting some perspectives you might not have heard before. I encourage you to join us live on Instagram.

06/12/2022

I started this week with a row.

I haven’t been out on the water since COVID hit. I am still riding on the high I felt from being in the boat, feeling the oars push through the water and remembering that this (skulling* specifically) is a skill I learned as a full blown adult. I’m back!

And so is Chen my rowing partner in crime!

01/11/2022

Today I voted as an Israeli citizen for the first time. I was giddy! I walked out of my home thinking it was just another thing on my list. But realized while making my vote how exciting it is have a democratic vote in a Jewish country. It’s something our people have longed for and needed for generations. 🥹 Historic.

25/10/2022

Some highlights from last night’s Tel Aviv International Salon event, which I hosted.

I welcomed Israel’s Defense Minister and Prime Ministerial Nominee to the stage along with the Jerusalem Post’s Editor in Chief Yaakov Katz. What fun!

The most important part for me is getting immigrants in Israel involved in politics… in their native tongue. I was able to host a question and answer and take a handful of important questions from the international crowd. It’s an important time as in one week, (Nov. 1) Israel will hold a general election.

My favorite question was the one about cost of living in Tel Aviv. I offer my take on Gantz’ answer in today’s .news podcast. Find it on Spotify, Apple, google or wherever you get your podcasts!

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