Tu Bab: The couples who are not afraid to mix business with love

They say you shouldn't mix love and business, but the following couples prove that sometimes it does work.

In honor of Tu Bab we met four couples who brought emotion into the professional relationship

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11/08/2022

Thursday, August 11, 2022, 1:18 p.m. Updated: 3:59 p.m.

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The couples who are not afraid to mix business with love (Photo: ShutterStock)

"A relationship in the workplace is a complex business"

Erez Breckner, CEO of Lumigo, worked at Check Point between 2004-2014, where he met his (future) wife Binat, when she worked in the training department and he in development.

"It is very difficult to recognize large organizations since there is really no interface between the departments," he says.

"As soon as it goes to the less professional aspects, you should know that you will be forced to see her in the kitchenette or in the kitchen and it is a challenge. On the other hand, there are more common interests and topics of conversation."

During this time, she had a boyfriend and the relationship between them remained professional - but ten years later, in 2015, Erez was a product development manager and they finally had an interface, since she was responsible for the training of the product.

The story between them started by chance: when they were both in the US for work, they happened to meet.

Binat celebrated her birthday, said that she was thinking of going to New York and suggested that they meet there.

It was their first date.

Erez Brekner: "Couples in the workplace is a complex business, because of the fear of rejection or separation when there are many professional shared circles. Happily, this did not happen - and today we are married and pregnant with our second child."

Tips for a relationship in the workplace: "First of all, in order to avoid the complexities that exist, I think the right way is to do it very slowly and in a controlled manner, when there is always positive feedback," Erez advises and adds, "At the beginning of the relationship, it is better to be quite discreet. It is not worth becoming for the company's gossip before it gets serious. Thirdly, it is important to disclose the relationship to the managers at the point when it becomes serious. In addition, be careful of a situation of bitter relations and open the issue with the appropriate person in the organization at an early stage."

Erez Brekner and his wife Binat: "It is important to disclose the relationship to the managers at the stage when it becomes serious" (Photo: Private)

"We see a property and already speak with our eyes"

Aryeh and Miriam Shouri, the owners of R.me, an investment company for permanent and retired employees, "we chose to work together. This is a beautiful and exciting closing of the circle because our acquaintance began by working together in the army," they say.

After Aryeh's retirement at the end of 23 years of service in which he was a fighter commander in the paratroopers from the Kafir Brigade, the love for the country made more room for the shared love, and so after four children he had a joint project, the fifth child, which became accurate when each side gave its part."

The division of roles in the R.me company - directs the natural talent of each spouse to a different channel.

Miriam is an interior designer who knows how to improve a property, and in general, improvement is hers - from properties to people.

After all, I'm from TS. "My talent is people and above all to see beyond," she says, "A lion in finance, long-term planning strategy and very task-oriented."

"It's amazing, we see a property and already speak with our eyes if it is suitable or not for us and our investors. When there is real meaning - the challenges, and there are quite a few of them, are solved. Because we are together. What is stronger than love? Love that meets a mission."

A challenge you've managed recently?

"The first is the transition to living together. After 23 years of military command. In addition, the real challenge - who am I the day after the army? This is the reason we founded r.me, precisely to provide a solution and a home for those permanent personnel who are in the process of retirement. And now the corona virus - two years in a pressure cooker, also at home With four teenage children and also to manage assets that are overseas - challenging! But after you succeed at it... you grow up and the difficulty turns into joint growing pains. It's not 'listen to what I had at work', it's 'wow what we went through together!'

And the amount of experiences we've had together in recent years is truly unbelievable."

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Aryeh and Miriam Shachori, owners of the R.me company (Photo: Gabriel Pinto)

"There is a complete understanding of each other's work and everyday life"

Ong and Gadi Fried, both work at the K-Logic group.

Ong, former customer manager, now in Khaled and a full-time mother. Gadi, serves as VP of customers.

"We worked together in the same department, and we started the relationship secretly for the first and critical month, which is the minimum that Gadi wanted," says Ong.

"After that we already told several people. From there we knew the whole company would know."

On the pros and cons: "On the one hand, it's a lot of fun because you can skip conversations at home about 'how was your day at work?' There is a complete understanding of each other's work and everyday life, and this creates transparency. On the other hand, there is a fine line of balance here that is broken between a couple and colleagues, which can be very dangerous. It is difficult to separate a professional view from a marital one. For example, when you witness an argument between a colleague at work with your spouse, you have the question of whether to intervene or not."

"What helped us the most," shares Ong, "was to maintain very open, transparent and full communication. We understood that we were at work and we maintained the professional and personal development of each one, in the face of life outside the office. Couples who manage to maintain good communication together with the holy triangle of time management - time for relationships and dates without work, time for myself alone and time with friends/family, they will totally be able to enjoy the situation."

Ong and Gadi Fried: skipping "how was work" conversations? (Photo: Studio Lupi)

"The business, the relationship and also the whole family are intertwined, and this is a real pride"

Michal and Erez Yashcharov, co-owners of Tilatan College of Design and Visual Communication, also met at the workplace.

"It all starts with the fact that even at home we just love each other," they say.

"We gained many more hours of love together. The great advantage is that you can't complain to your partner who is more at work than at home, the joint lunch is an opportunity to bring home to work, but the opposite must not be done. At home we don't talk about work. On the other hand, You can complain about the boss like that. Certainly not at home."

The main challenge: "There is a real difficulty in going on joint vacations. So you depend on good employees that you leave behind. Since we work in a business that is ours, the responsibility is even greater. Happily, we have such employees and every such vacation is really a real vacation."

"This connection works thanks to several factors," says Erez and adds, "First, a clear definition of roles, a clear distribution of responsibilities, and therefore it is also clear in advance who gives up in any dispute. But, more importantly, this is simply our business, our home. Often, at peak moments , our children are also here with us, taking part in the tasks. When they ask me who is the owner, I have a fixed answer: 'I am the husband of half the owner of half.' Computer graphics, and I, as the one who was part of the team that founded the HDM in BHD 10, promised her that I would build a school for her that she deserves to study in. The rest is history."

"I can't imagine Tilatan or my life any other way," he adds.

"The business, the relationship and also the whole family are intertwined, and this is a real pride. I live a perfect life thanks to my other half. We remember it all year, not only on Tu Bab."

Michal and Erez Yashcharov: "We gained many more hours of love together" (Photo: Private)

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