Our History

Virtual Assistant Israel started as a solution to a problem. One of our friends, a successful IT entrepreneur, was struggling to find a smart, affordable assistant locally in the San Francisco Bay Area. After speaking with our founder, she matched him with Margelit, a US college-graduate who had recently moved from Pennsylvania to Jerusalem, Israel.

The two of them started working together right away. Our friend was thrilled to finally have, as he has emailed to us numerous times, "the assistant he had always wanted" (but had never been able to find locally in the San Francisco Bay Area).

After the success of their working relationship,Virtual Assistant Israel was founded to provide this service to other entrepreneurs and small business owners in the United States and abroad.

Alyssa Magid, a two-and-a-half-year veteran of Virtual Assistant Israel, is the current company director. Alyssa manages all aspects of the business, from recruiting, screening and training our virtual assistants, to speaking with prospective clients, and managing client relations. In addition to managing the business, Alyssa has also worked as a virtual marketing assistant for numerous clients around the United States.

Prior to working for Virtual Assistant Israel, Alyssa worked for both CNN and Fox News in New York. Some of her responsibilities included researching and writing news stories, conducting interviews, creating and editing news footage, and documentary production.

Alyssa honed her public relations and marketing skills while working in the PR department of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, DC, creating innovative programming and website content. Following her experience at the Embassy, Alyssa worked for the Jerusalem branch of a major international PR firm, designing and implementing international strategies for hi-tech companies based in Israel.

Alyssa is a graduate of Cornell University with a Bachelors of Arts in History. Alyssa is originally from Northern New Jersey and lives with her family in central Israel.

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