Artists
Orian Cohen Rayzner (46)
Kfar Sirkin
Phone: +972-52-5284499
Email: Orianrayzner@gmail.com
Multidisciplinary artist and businesswoman, currently writing my debut book. I am eager to continue developing my career in social change, social entrepreneurship, and art that connects with my professional path.
Professional Experience:
- Social Entrepreneur, Real Estate Consultant & Investor
Founded the women’s group N.Z.A.H. (Strong Young Women), which met monthly from 2007 until the COVID-19 pandemic.
Participated in the Michal Sela Hackathon in 2021 with a venture for preventing violence.
Real estate consultant at EXP Israel, part of an international American company, since 2022 (company active since 2012). Began investing in real estate in 2021 and currently works on improving and upgrading properties. - Property Manager
Manages short-term rental properties for tourists in Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Herzliya, Haifa, and Kiryat Gat. - Journalist and Researcher
Worked in Israeli media between 2001–2012, including at Yediot Ahronot’s local paper, At magazine, a regular column in Signon, and as a feature writer for LaIsha.
Also served as a researcher and assistant editor, including on docu-reality series at Buzz TV and on Channel 10’s news desk (Rafi Reshef). - Chairwoman of the Israeli Forum of Fertility Patients
Since 2022, following the embryo mix-up scandal at Assuta, I have led the Israeli Fertility Patients Forum – PoriyutForum.com.
Hobbies: Writing, vintage, creative arts and painting, yoga and Pilates (reformer), volunteering for animal welfare, and caring for Spike, Ketem, Nick, and the neighborhood cats.
About My Works:
Mother in Grandmother’s Arms, 2022
My grandmother, Zohara, holding my late mother Rachel in Morocco, somewhere around 1957. This piece is based on a black-and-white photo from Ouezzane, Morocco — my mother’s birthplace. Later, in 1963, my grandparents moved with their three children to Casablanca. In January 1965, they immigrated to Israel.
My grandmother’s story was always full of color and richness — she had an ironer, a cook, and housekeepers for her and her four children in Casablanca. My grandfather was a talented barber who claimed even the king came to have his hair styled by him.
When I hear stories about Morocco, I always feel a sense of color, abundance, and joy — mixed with a yearning to immigrate to Israel, where my grandfather’s siblings were already waiting. And so they did — they left behind prosperity and success, and moved to a transit camp (ma’abara) in Ashdod.
The House on Shadal Street, 2021
This is the building on Shadal Street, where I lived in my early 30s. It was built sometime in the 1930s, with sea sand and shells that would occasionally emerge whenever a picture was hammered into the wall.
It was a special, though crumbling, building with neighbors all around the same age and a fun sense of community — where we’d hop between apartments with snacks in hand.
Below the building was a print shop; across the street, a money exchange store, an old perfumery, and across from that, our favorite bar — in the building’s basement, open only after midnight. I have fond memories of dancing and flirtation there. A few years ago, a pit was dug on the site to make room for another high-rise.
The Blue House on Rothschild Boulevard, 2021
While living on Shadal during the 2011 social protest movement, I fell in love with the local architecture of Tel Aviv. The buildings looked as if they were pulled out of an old painting, preserving their beauty for over a hundred years.
I often passed this particular house, and grew to love Rothschild Boulevard in winter — where I spent many days with friends, admiring the puddles and the reflections of the house within them.