Beautiful dresses for the religious sector by designer Hodaya Luvich

The best shopping recommendations for religious Israelis.

  (photo credit: SHILAT MIZRAHI)
(photo credit: SHILAT MIZRAHI)

Perfect dresses for the religious sector can be found by the wonderful designer Hodaya Luvich.

Hodaya Luvich's company was founded in 2012 as a small studio shop in Neve Daniel and has since expanded to four additional branches in Jerusalem, central Israel, and Gush Etzion.

Additionally, they have an online store where you can place orders.

Hodaya is a mother of four and lives in the settlement of Sde Boaz in Gush Etzion. She began designing clothes out of a need to provide fashionable, trendy, and innovative options for the religious community.

She draws inspiration for her eclectic, colorful, and lightweight fabrics from global fashion trends, with a special love for ancient, tribal, and ethnic sources.

Her clothing is characterized by a contemporary touch, meticulous finishes, and comfortable and unique cuts that suit the female body.

In every collection, Hodaya offers designs in various cuts and lengths to fit every woman, her size, and her style.

You are invited to join her customer base and enjoy a renewal experience that will keep you always in style with unique, ever-changing collections that provide a unique, precise, and fashionable look.

Visit the website to check it out for yourself: Hodaya Luvich

  (credit: SHILAT MIZRAHI)
(credit: SHILAT MIZRAHI)

For those who wear knee-high socks, thigh-high socks, or tights, my recommendation is only from the company Schreiber.

They have everything—sizes for women and girls, a variety of colors, and a large selection of tights thickness.


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The high-quality "Velvet" foot socks series and the "Marlene" series of opaque socks are very comfortable on the body, and when the denier is higher, they even serve as a kind of body shaper.

The website also has a wide selection of products: children's undershirts with fringes, school skirts, and even modest swimsuits for girls. Highly recommended!

For more details: Schreibe

  (credit: Courtesy of Schreiber)
(credit: Courtesy of Schreiber)

SHISEIDO launches a new and mysterious fragrance that joins the Ginza collection:

Ginza Night Eau de Parfum Intense.

A refined floral-woody fragrance. Ginza Night is a refined floral-woody fragrance whose magnetic allure and mysterious aura rival the vibrant energy that echoes through the streets of Ginza at twilight.

Top notes: Blackcurrant, Mandarin

Heart notes: Jasmine, Gardenia, Damascus Rose

Base notes: Cedar, Vanilla

Vegan formula, using 88% naturally derived ingredients

Price: NIS 520

Available at Super-Pharm, Mashbir, Be, and on the Lilith website.

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(credit: PR)

The concealer that both you and your teenager will love from L'Oréal Paris.

The concealer from the Infallible L'Oréal Paris series in three additional shades.

A 24-hour long-lasting concealer for complete coverage, hiding imperfections and dark circles under the eyes. It has an especially large brush for precise or full-face coverage with a perfect natural finish.

Price: NIS 65 only

  (credit: PR abroad)
(credit: PR abroad)

Additionally, L'Oréal Paris, the world's No. 1 anti-aging brand, expands the BRIGHT REVEAL facial care series, which helps fight dark spots, and launches two new skincare products: a face cream with SPF 50 and a facial cleansing gel.

The BRIGHT REVEAL series offers a complete skincare routine centered on niacinamide for treating dark spots and pigmentation, which includes active products: niacinamide serum, moisturizing and protective SPF 50 emulsion in a lightweight texture, and a unique peeling mask (exclusive innovation). Now, two new products join the series:

Bright Reveal Moisturizing Cream SPF 50 – Moisturizing cream to blur dark spots + UV protection with high coverage in a rich texture. Recommended retail price: NIS120.

Bright Reveal Cleansing Gel – Niacinamide cleansing gel, which helps reduce the appearance of skin imperfections and blur specific dark spots, with a serum texture containing active ingredients. The formula includes niacinamide – an active ingredient that helps brighten skin spots, and salicylic acid – a gentle peeling agent that helps reduce the appearance of skin imperfections.

Recommended retail price: NIS 40

Available at pharmacies and supermarkets and on the website.

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(credit: PR abroad)

The international skincare brand Lierac Paris embarks on its first-of-its-kind collaboration in the world, in which it selected Israeli star and businesswoman Adele Bespalov (568K followers) to launch a product in her name under the title: LIERAC X ADEL.

This is an anti-aging body cream with a velvety, shimmering texture for use after sun exposure, providing deep nourishment, preserving, deepening, and highlighting the tan. The special texture refreshes the skin, leaving it soft, radiant, and healthy, offering a glowing and refreshed look. It also has a glowing effect: the cream contains a fine pearl extract that gives the skin a touch of light and natural radiance, leaving an addictive trail of coconut, white jasmine, and vanilla scents.

LIERAC X ADEL has an anti-aging formula containing 97% natural ingredients: red algae extract, which helps protect against skin aging caused by sun exposure (including wrinkles, sagging skin, spots, and pigmentation), and helps prolong the tan, enhancing melanin synthesis and improving the tan for an even and beautiful look. Witch hazel extract is known for its antioxidant properties and its richness in polymers – tannins, which fight the effects of radiation and protect the skin from aging (wrinkles and loss of firmness).

Content: 100 ml

Price: NIS 19

For more details: Lierac

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(credit: PR abroad)

The Careline brand expands its line with the launch of Matcha and Cucumber Shampoo and Conditioner for normal hair with dry ends, offering a healthy, refreshed look with vitality and shine.

The series is enriched with a formula that cares for hair and scalp, containing matcha and cucumber extracts, helping restore the appearance of the hair to the ends, providing moisture, nourishment, and softness to your hair.

Like all Careline products, this series was not tested on animals.

Price: NIS13.90 for 700 ml

Available at all leading pharmacy and supermarket chains.

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(credit: Tal Azulay)

The Italian makeup brand PUPA continues to innovate with new and trendy products, launching a new line of PUPA VAMP! LIQUID EYESHADOW in 12 stunning, fashionable, and highly practical shades for everyone. The eyeshadows come in a matte or shimmery liquid texture and provide a beautiful effect when combined. The flexible liquid texture allows for easy and comfortable application, even enabling blending with fingertips.

The eyeshadow formula is particularly thin and delicate, lightweight, with a combination of pigments and pearls, enriched with polymers. The eyeshadow stays perfectly in place quickly and is long-lasting.

Among the shades of the new eyeshadow series:

Snow, Golden Rose, Smokey Lilac, Rose, Champagne, Bronze, Hazel, Copper, Cream, Greige, Mocha, and Anthracite.

Available at PUPA sales points in the Super-Pharm chain and on the Lilith Cosmetics website.

Price per eyeshadow: NIS 89

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(credit: PUPA)

Dr. Lehavit Ackerman, a dermatologist who operates a network of clinics across the country, expands her professional skincare line and launches an innovative serum: Derma Mega Coffee Serum (COFFEE ESSENCE ELIXIR), made from coffee oil extract and cannabis seed oil. This serum helps boost blood circulation, combats radical damage, and has anti-inflammatory properties for the skin.

The new serum features a formula enriched with oily coffee bean extract, known for its unique skin care properties. The coffee beans have a high content of linoleic acid, which nourishes and soothes the skin, and contain antioxidants that preserve its activity.

The serum also contains organic cannabis seed oil, which is rich in GLA (Gamma-Linolenic Acid) and polyunsaturated fatty acids (Omega 6 and Omega 3), serving as a powerful antioxidant. Additionally, Dunaliella salina extract, rich in carotenoids, acts as an effective antioxidant for protection against free radicals known to accelerate skin aging. High-quality vitamins E and C help delay skin aging.

Dr. Ackerman's skincare line includes a range of active skincare products for the face, now joined by this new serum:Face Cleansing Gel, Skin Energizer, Renewing Face Cream, Derma Skin, Glyco Serum, C Serum, Renewing Face Serum, and Triple Lifting Serum.

Consumer price: NIS 450

Watch the video about the innovative serum.

The products are available at Dr. Lehabit Ackerman's clinics.

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(credit: ASSAF LEVY)

Rio Mare, Italy's leading tuna brand, offers its Insalatissime series—quick meals based on Rio Mare tuna, perfect for the travel season. These meals are ready to eat, whether at home or on the go.

The Insalatissime series offers four different flavors of protein-rich meals, combining premium tuna with vegetables: Mexican meal, garden vegetables, rice and vegetables, and couscous with vegetables.

These products are suitable for any moment and any place—during a picnic or a trip, both in Israel and abroad, for travel, for soldiers, at the office, or even at home as a meal.

Kosher certification: Under the supervision of the Badatz Agudat Yisrael

Price: NIS 16.90 – NIS 19.90

Available at food and retail chains across the country.

  (credit: Courtesy of Rio Mare)
(credit: Courtesy of Rio Mare)

The culinary brand Master Chef expands its range of Eastern sauces by launching Sate Peanut Sauce, made in Thailand.

This peanut sauce is perfect for preparing tofu, chicken, or beef, as a marinade, or as a finishing sauce. It also works as a salad dressing, for noodles, stir-fries, or even as a dip on the side. The sauce comes in a convenient bottle that keeps it fresh.

Kosher certification: Badatz Beit Yosef

Price: NIS 15.90

Available at select stores and retail chains across the country.

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(credit: Master Chef PR)

And to conclude with a recommendation for body and soul—Viki Lavi Meshel's card series:

'Talking Abundance' Cards.

A deck of cards offering a variety of questions that allow for discussions about abundance as part of individual therapy, group therapy, a couple's game, or a group game (with or without facilitation). Each participant takes turns selecting a card with a question, answering it, and then allowing the other participants to answer the same question or draw a new card.

The deck contains: 50 cards with different questions, inside a luxurious organza pouch, along with an instruction sheet.

Price: NIS 140 excluding shipping

'Talking Intimacy' Cards

These cards contain a set of questions that open the heart, connect, and deepen understanding and relationships. These are the kinds of questions that make the soul feel massaged, allowing for open and heartfelt conversations about intimacy.

The cards are designed for individual or group therapy, couple games, or group games. Place the deck in the center, sit face to face or in a small group (with or without facilitation). Each participant takes turns selecting a card with a question, answering it, and then allowing others to respond to the same question or draw a new card.

The deck contains: 50 cards with different questions, inside a luxurious organza pouch, along with an instruction sheet.

Price: NIS 140 excluding shipping

Viki Lavi Meshel, a mindfulness-based NLP Master Trainer, holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and communication. She has extensive experience in facilitation, coaching, and therapy, and she lectures and leads workshops for companies and organizations. She is the founder of the NLP MOVEMENT school, specializing in teaching and certifying NLP and mindfulness trainers.

Personal experience:

My daughters and I played with the 'Talking Intimacy' cards on Shabbat, and it was truly enjoyable.

The simple and easy questions prompted us all to open up, deepen our emotional connection, and speak heart to heart. I really loved it.

For more details: NLP MOVEMENT 

  (credit: Chen Kropnik)
(credit: Chen Kropnik)