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Meet the Designers
Isaac
Levy
“My way of repairing the world is to
give others what I didn’t have as a
child and to help repair the weakest
links in Israeli society - our immigrants
and, in particular, Ethiopian
immigrants.”
Isaac Levy was born in Buenos
Aires, Argentina to industrious
and loving parents who
immigrated the entire family to
Israel when Isaac was a young
boy, only four years old. Isaac’s
father Moshe Levy brought his
entire life’s savings to partner
with an established sausage
factory just outside of Jerusalem
in Ramat Motza. Within three weeks, the partner
and all of the Levy money was gone. Isaac recalls
his immigration to the ‘Promised Land’ as a rather
tumultuous and challenging time. His father had
to find work and the Levys scraped by with frugal
charm and a deepening family loyalty. They learned
Hebrew and found ways to integrate themselves
fully, over time, into Israeli life and culture.
As a young man, Isaac met and fell in love with
Orna, daughter to a pearl jewelry legacy in the
Moussaieff family. Isaac quickly
recognized that Orna would be
the one natural and precious
pearl of his life and he formally
proposed.
The couple was
married in Jerusalem. Shortly
after their nuptials, Orna taught
Isaac to string pearls one
day.
Isaac was immediately
enchanted by the natural beauty
of the pearls and the creativity involved in jewelry
craftsmanship. He was hooked! He began to
train in earnest with his Mother-in-Law who
recognized his raw talent for innovative design and
worked to mentor him, sharing her knowledge of
gemstones, gold, pearls and jewelry craftsmanship.
Isaac and Orna now create a powerful design
team, stimulating innovation in pearl and gemstone
jewelry design with award-winning results.