#1183 Ravit Dagani (Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv) of SeeYouInIsrael
& David Hertz (Haifa, Haifa) of SeeYouInIsrael

Success Story

We through SeeYouInIsrael site on May 11, 2015 while we were both living in Tel Aviv, Israel, and while I was doing a stint at a small tech startup and she was studying for her masters degree at a local university. We''d both originally relocated overseas around the same time, each in order to gain international business experience. Little did we know that two people with such similar backgrounds and experiences, and who were such a good match, would end up literally being in the same place at the same time. After numerous phone calls, WhatsApp messages and a few Skype chats, we finally met in person on June 4th at the Hamitbach Hakaful restaurant in central Tel Aviv. Ironically, this restaurant is notorious for its great food but terrible service so my presumption that we''d have a lot of time to get to know each other without interruption really paid off. However, she ended up becoming so annoyed by the lack of service that she''d said she could''ve walked out with the entire cheesecake that was sitting on a counter and the staff wouldn't have known the difference. Needless to say, the idea was quite tempting to both of us! We spent the summer of 2015 shuttling back and forth between my place in central Tel Aviv and her apartment in north Tel Aviv, and putting hundreds of miles on our Rav-Kav bus passes as we made countless 27 minute one-way trips back and forth on the Dan #25 bus. In between work and school, we traveled throughout Tel Aviv and the central part of the country together as we began the process of getting to know each other. On August 26th, I helped her to move the last of her belongings into my place as we "officially" began living together, and we''ve been inseparable since. On September 13th, we spent a few days with her family in the southern part of the country where I got to know a number of my future in-laws. The following week on the 20th, we traveled to the northern part of the country to spend yet another few days, this time with my family and her soon-to-be family. On October 27, 2015, I asked her to marry me. After getting to know our mutual extended families and when our time of working and studying in Israel had finally come to a conclusion, we returned to the United States at the end of 2015 to continue our lives as a couple in the country in which we were both raised. We moved back to the Northeast where we''d both received our undergraduate degrees and on March 9, 2016, we were married in New York City in a civil ceremony. After much planning and preparation, we celebrated our marriage under the chuppah at Chabad Tysons Jewish Center in Vienna, Virginia on June 4, 2017. To this day, we still refer to the "cheesecake incident" when we recall with fondness how we''d first met what seems like so long ago and so far away from where we are now. And we''re grateful to See You In Israel and especially our shadchanit, Aviva Goldstein, for enabling these two soulmates to find one another, and to continue on life''s journey together.