"Yoni and his father flew in to attend the last two days of the conference, and were surprised to spy a group of chareidi-looking women among the attendees. As it turns out, there are quite a few frum women in the balloon business (they even have their own WhatsApp chat with over 20 participants).
Mishpacha spoke to one of them, Debby Levi from Passaic, who together with her niece by marriage, Judy (Yehudis) Levi, runs Inflated Creations. She jokes that their colleagues at conferences call them “the ladies who eat from tinfoil,” referring to their packaged kosher meals. Debby, who has been in the business for 33 years and does balloons for events like Bike4Chai and the Yeshiva University graduation, happily joined Kobi’s teams, working on several different exhibits.
“In all my years in the business, I’ve never worked that hard,” she told Mishpacha. “We’d begin at 9 a.m. and end at 8 p.m. But the results are exceptional.”
Debby, who has a special needs son, appreciates that the Eiziks gave away many free tickets to special needs visitors. But Kobi puts in that this is nothing new.
“The Eiziks are very special people,” he says. “In Israel, they also give free admission to evacuees, the disabled, and children with special needs"
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