Ziva Glanz

Ziva Glanz is a resident of Mevaseret Zion, and mother of five. She is also the CEO of the Sha’ar Group and founder of LaShuv, a network for the absorption of immigrants from Western countries. She is originally from Passaic, New Jersey, and made aliyah in 2005.

She began her management career at the age of twenty as an associate director for the Hebron Fund, managing relations with international donors and foundations. She then directed Jerusalem 5800, a private master plan for the greater Jerusalem metropolitan region covering tourism, transportation, and the regional economy. Since 2019 she has been CEO of the Sha’ar Group, which leads public-private partnerships in regional infrastructure projects requiring statutory planning approval. In 2020 she founded Rainmaker and Associates, which advises NGOs and international development initiatives on housing, retirement communities, and urban master plans.

In 2014 she organized donations and meals for soldiers and supplied essential equipment during Operation Protective Edge.On October 7, 2023, within hours of the attack, she issued purchase orders around the world for tactical equipment, rallied major donors to the war effort, and supplied equipment to soldiers on behalf of international organizations. She was subsequently appointed co-director of the Discretionary Fund of Israel, and directed the coordination of major donations from the civilian war room of the Ministry of Defense.

As founder of LaShuv, she built an umbrella network to unite organizations working in immigrant absorption and coordinate and streamline the long-term absorption of immigrants from Western countries. Through this network she assists groups seeking to make aliyah together and represents their housing, education, and community needs in government ministries.

She has been involved with The Next Step, the Israeli association for amputees, since its first day. She also co-founded an international support group for bereaved Jewish mothers and worked with state authorities to change how bereaved parents are treated and how registration and burial of infants are handled. She holds a master’s degree in public administration with a focus on government administration, and a bachelor’s in biology.