The Mishab Construction Company will receive the Jerusalem Conference Award for Building the Land of Israel at the 6th Jerusalem Conference this week.
The Jerusalem Conference is taking place from Monday evening, Jan. 26 through Wednesday, Jan. 28 at the Regency Hotel in Jerusalem's French Hill neighborhood. The annual Conference hosts key figures and policy makers from Israel and around the world to address Israel's national priorities, social values, and aspirations. This year's Conference will focus on the "New Leadership and New Direction" that will emerge this year in Israel and the United States following their national elections.
Mishab is Israel’s leading construction company for the religious public in Israel, having built thousands of buildings in dozens of religious neighborhoods in cities all over the country. It is currently involved in eight projects – in the Arnona neighborhood of Jerusalem, Givat Ze’ev, two in Netanya, Givatayim, Kiryat Shmuel, Elad and Nechalim – and has been in operation for over six decades.
Shmuel Birnbaum, Director-General of Mishab, explains on a video to be shown at the Conference, “We specialize in adapting new areas for the national-religious public. We have built many such neighborhoods in cities that previously had not had religious areas.”
“Every apartment is built with the religious family in mind,” Birnbaum notes. “The buildings have elevators with mechanisms allowing them to operate automatically on the Sabbath, as well as double sinks [for meat and dairy] in the kitchen, a Sukkah porch [with nothing atop it], Sabbath clocks, and more.”
Birnbaum said that 18-story buildings are currently going up in Nechalim, near Petach Tikvah, “and providing a Sukkah porch for every apartment is quite an engineering challenge – but we’re doing it.’
Conference goers can register at the door.