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CMS Investments
CMS Companies has long entrusted Gil Travel to manage their travel needs to prepare for business meetings abroad and create incentive travel programs for their employees. We’re pleased to be successfully affiliated with CMS.
Our Mission
We focus all of our energies on helping entrepreneurs grow, manage and preserve wealth for the benefit of their families and their communities.
While our products and services may change from time to time, nothing will change the underpinnings of our business - that of providing an unusually high level of due diligence on products, services and ideas for the successful entrepreneur.
Our Business Philosophy
We want to be known as a high performance, high integrity group of people who make a difference. Yes, making money is important, but helping our clients meet their objectives is more important. Our philosophy is that if we help our clients, we will be rewarded. Maybe not today, but someday we will be compensated. Stated simply, we are in the relationship business.
We will only recommend products and services which we believe to be the best available. We operate on the theory that one day our papers will be graded. On that day, the most knowledgeable person on the subject is going to walk in and our work will be laid bare. Our recommendations must be capable of withstanding this test.
We prefer to underpromise and overperform. While this may cost us some business in the short-run, it will guarantee our long-term success. Every time we deliver more than expected the bond between ourselves and our clients is strengthened.
Our Responsibility
Second in importance only to helping our clients meet their objectives is making this a better world than we found it. We, as a firm, are committed to helping others who are less fortunate than ourselves develop their full potential. This means that all CMSers have a responsibility to put something back. We believe there are two kinds of people in the world, miners and farmers. Miners only take out; farmers take out but also put something back. We only want to be associated with farmers.
Our Primary Asset
Our greatest asset is our credibility. A client must be able to take our word to the bank. White lies or misrepresentations are unacceptable. Mistakes, however, are acceptable as long as we own up to them. The only people who do not make mistakes are those who do not make decisions.
Our Investment Policy
Unlike other firms, no transaction for investment purposes is retained by CMS for the exclusive benefit of its principals. To the contrary, all investments are made available to clients. Partners are required to invest in all CMS transactions and, except for a $100,000 exemption, are not allowed to make outside investments in asset classes in which CMS is then active.
Our Commitment
We are committed to doing "whatever it takes" to serve our clients. These are not just buzz words; they express the very essence of CMS.
| CMS Sample Itinerary | |
 Bordeaux |
Thursday Bordeaux, France The Mission begins at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris where we will board our charter flight to Bordeaux. After arriving in Bordeaux and checking into our hotel, we will have a light lunch followed by a guided tour of the city. Later, we will have dinner at one of the Bordeaux’s renowned restaurants, where Hubert Leven, the head of the Sacta-Rashi Foundation, will join other local residents in welcoming our group to Bordeaux. |
 Chateau Lafite |
Friday Bordeaux, France After breakfast at the hotel, we will visit Chateau Lafite for a tour and luncheon which will be hosted by its proprietor, Baron Eric de Rothschild. We will proceed from Chateau Lafite to Chateau Margaux for a tour hosted by Hubert Leven and his wife, Corinne Mentzelopoulos, the chateau’s owner. After refreshing ourselves at the hotel, we will return to Chateau Margaux for a gala dinner in the wine cellar, where our hosts will again be Mr. Leven and Mme. Mentzelopoulos. |
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Saturday France & Israel After breakfast with Hubert Leven at the hotel, we will depart Bordeaux for Israel. After arriving in Israel we will proceed directly to the hotel. After checking into our rooms and refreshing ourselves, we will gather for a welcome dinner at the hotel with some of the Israeli friends we have made over the years. |
 Palmachim Air Force Base |
Sunday Central Israel We will visit the Palmachim Air Force Base with Air Force Major Dan Huldai and meet with pilots and the commander of the base. From here, we will tour Raanana, Israel’s most liveable city, in the company of its Mayor Zeev Bielski, one of Israel’s most dynamic personalities. Among many new initiatives, Zeev was responsible for creating the direct absorption of immigrants in the early 90’s when the first wave of Russian immigrants arrived in Israel. We will have lunch at Raanana’s delightful Restaurant on the Lake. |
 ELOP |
Monday Central Israel We will begin the day by visiting the first clandestine underground ammunition factory in Israel, which was built in the 40’s to help arm Israel for the War of Independence and is truly the genesis of Israel’s high-tech industry. After visiting the underground factory, we will visit ELOP, a high-tech company at the Weizmann Industrial Park which is a world leader in the design and manufacture of military hardware. We will proceed from ELOP to Rehovot, where we will tour Hebrew University’s Agricultural Center and see the latest innovations in agriculture, a field in which Israel has long been a leader. In the afternoon, we will travel to the Jaffa Institute for lunch and a tour with its founder, David Portowicz. Jaffa works with both Arab and Jewish children from the surrounding neighborhoods and provides them with a stable environment in which they receive afterschool education and other vital services. That evening we will have dinner with the mayor of Tel Aviv, on the campus of Israel’s newest university. |
 Sderot |
Tuesday Southern Israel We will meet with the President of the Palestinian Authority and will then depart for the Gaza border, where we will be escorted by Colonel Asaf Razili, who is in charge of security along the northern border of the Gaza Strip. We will then travel to Kibbutz Nahal Oz, which is strategically situated on the border with Gaza. There we will meet with the members of the kibbutz and hear from them of the difficulties they have experienced, some of them quite harrowing, as a result of the kibbutz’s location. We will then travel to Sderot for lunch and visits to several community development projects sponsored by the Sacta-Rashi Foundation. Our guide will be Sacta-Rashi’s Director of Social Services, David Gappell. From Sderot, we will return to Tel Aviv for a forum with several young Israeli entrepreneurs, including Avi Ludomirski of Vitalife, the most active life sciences venture capital firm in Israel Leetal Kalmanson, Israel’s hottest designer and manufacturer of jewelry; and the head of Office Depot Israel, who will describe how a U.S. firm can successfully do business in Israel. That evening we will have dinner with a group of Ethiopian Israelis including Maherta Baruch, who was runner-up in the television program known as “The Ambassador,” Israel’s equivalent of “The Apprentice.” In addition, Uri Lubrani who was in charge of rescuing 15,000 Ethopians from Addis Ababa in 1991, will discuss the role he played in negotiating the airlift. |
 Yemin Orde |
Wednesday Israel We will start the day at dawn at Ben Gurion Airport, where we will watch the arrival of a planeload of new Ethiopian immigrants and witness at first hand the emotional miracle of "coming home." After years in the camps of Gondar and Addis Ababa, families once separated will be re-united as we experience the deeply moving act of granting immediate citizenship to these beautiful people. After breakfast at the Park Hotel in Netanya, we travel east to the security fence that Israel has been building along the West Bank. We will visit the fence opposite the Arab village of Qalqilya, at which time we will be briefed by Eyal Gilady, who was the primary architect of the fence when he was Director of Strategic Planning for the Israel Defense Forces, and Dr. Baruch Spiegel, whose job is to minimize the impact of the Palestinians. Following the visit to Qalqilya, we will travel to Yemin Orde, which is a children’s village located on the slopes of Mt. Carmel and serves as home to 500 children from 22 countries around the world. We will tour the village in the company of its renowned director, Dr. Chaim Peri, and have lunch with the students. That afternoon we will depart for the northern part of the country where we will visit the beautiful village of Rosh Pinna, which was founded by the Rothschild family in the 19th century. That evening, we will have dinner in the town square with local residents. |
 Jeep tour in the Golan Heights |
Thursday Northern Israel We will begin the day with a jeep tour of the Golan Heights, which will be led by Jed Elias, the most expert tour operator in the region and one of Israel’s to young entrepreneurs. In addition, we will take in the breathtaking natural scenery as we walk the source of the Jordan River. We will then proceed to the Kibbutz Misgav Am on the Lebanese border, where we will have lunch and meet the kibbutz’s indefatigable residents and its colorful leader, Mike Ginsberg. In the afternoon, we will depart for Jerusalem. On the way south, we will visit the Church of the Beatitudes on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. After checking into our hotel, we will have the option of a quiet dinner with the group at the hotel or a free evening on your own. |
 Old Jerusalem |
Friday Jerusalem We will start the day with a breakfast presentation on "The Arab-Israeli Situation." Our speaker will be Danny Rubenstein, a veteran reporter for Ha’aretz Newspaper and an expert on this subject. We will then take a walking tour of old city of Jerusalem. We will visit the Church of the Holy Sephulcher, where we have access to a recently discovered ancient tunnel which is not open to the general public. This will be followed be a VIP tour of the Siebenebrg house. Miriam and Theo Siebenberg began an excavation from the First and Sceond Temple periods including homes, rare artifacts, mikvahs, and burial vaults. The museum they created has been featured by National Geographic, the BBC, CBS Television and others. Our tour will be led by the dynamic founders and will include a box lunch on site. That evening, we will present at the Western Wall for the Kabbalat Shabbat service, a mystical ritual designed to welcome Sabbath. We will then break into small groups for dinner and warm home hospitality at various local residences. We will end the evening with an optional Rebbe’s Tisch for those who are interested. |
 Bethlehem |
Saturday Israel We will have various options to choose from, such as a visit to Bethlehem and the Church of the Nativity (security permitting), a VIP tour of the fascinating Tower of David Museum, and a rousing jeep tour of the desert surrounding Jerusalem. In the afternoon, we will have free time for shopping and exploring before out closing dinner. After dinner, we will check out of the hotel and leave for the airport for those who are returning to the U.S. on the 12:01 am flight to Newark. |
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