Israel's Lavi Furniture company has recently completed renovating Congregation Beth Yeshurun in Houston, Texas, the largest Conservative synagogue in the United States, a year after it was badly damaged by Hurricane Harvey.
The 500-seat synagogue suffered major flood damage during the August 2017 storm, rendering it unsuitable for services. As a result, the congregation had to move to a local church.
Lavi Furniture, based in Kibbutz Lavi in northern Israel, describes itself as "the world's leading supplier of seating and furniture systems for synagogues and yeshivas."
It essentially replaced all the seats, as well as rebuilt the adjacent facilities, for a total cost of some $200,000.
Lavi Furniture CEO Micha Oberman said only a few other projects he has undertaken abroad were completed so quickly.
"We had to finish the renovation so that the congregation can once again use the synagogue," he told Israel Hayom.
