History of Media HaBayit

History of Media HaBeit

Media HaBayit (M.H.) is an Israeli media publishing amd Internet design house, based in Tel Aviv.

Services offered by M.H. include Internet journalism, marketing, and publishing services. Also, English, Spanish, and Hebrew are spoken here.

On August 2001, Media HaBayit was founded in Queens, New York. The origninal spelling of the business name was Media HaBeit. The names is a translitteration of the Hebrew words for media of the house. It was founded to produce affordable graphic design for the Jewish and South Asian communities of New York.

In 2002, Media HaBeit became a full-fledged Internet design firm helping small businesses and companies with the Internet and Internet-related information technology needs. That year, M.H.'s New York City customer list included: AHA Corporation, publishers of the NYC-area Iranian Yellow Pages, Barter Advantage, INC., the oldest and one of the most major players in the International barter industry, the Miss Bangladesh 2002 Pageant, Prestige Glam, Amba Travels and Randall Tyslinger Antiques (no longer in business due to the economy), and the America Bangladesh Friendship Society.

On March 3,2003, Barry Davidson, Media HaBayit (nee Media HaBaeit) founder, moved himself to Jerusalem, Israel. There he focused on learning the Hebrew  language. In the city he learned at urban ulpans (governmental, municial based, Hebrew school) Beit HaAm and Beit HaNoar.

On February 21, 2004, Mr. Davidson moved to Tel Aviv., Media HaBeit continued to grow, with its base operations in Tel Aviv, the media capital of Israel. Affiliate operations and affiliations will be maintained in New York.

In 2003, M.H.'s tried it first attempt at producing an Internet-based media product. Its name was Merkazah (Hebrew for towards the center)--a cyber-community, which packages Israeli and World Zionist diaspora music with news, opinion and Israeli weather reports.

On December 2005, Media HaBeit, changed it English-language spelling to Media HaBayit. That to  reflect
The ultimate goal of M.H. is to become one of the top International media firms with a strong foot-hold in the Internet design and product generation businesses.

During that time, Media HaBayit designed websites for Sinai Calif-Israeli (http://www.sinaiart.com), Amnon Hoftman, http://www.amnonlandscape.com and the former Gallery HaSharon, which was located in Ramat HaSharon, Israel.

From summer 2006, Barry Davidson took a break from the business in order to go back to school. He started studying at a branch of Open University of Israel, located at Ramat Gan College.

In May 2007, Barry is relaunching Media HaBayit. The business is based in Tel Aviv.