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The Family Who Gave a Soundtrack to My Life (Videos)
If you walk around Jerusalem's famed Machane Yehuda food market, there is one alleyway that is different from all the others. The names...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 24, 20202 min read


Tiberias is About To Get a Major Overhaul
Apparently someone finally heard my plea... the plea of a humble tour guide of Israel. How can it be that a city which essentially was...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 23, 20202 min read


Forget Trees - Plant Vines, Get Wine & Help Israeli Charities
I am very excited about this... A new initiative of the Israel Innovation Fund is not only organizing a number of wineries together to...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 23, 20202 min read


Pride Alert: Tel Aviv has a new LGBT Anthem (video)
So many of you are familiar with Static and Ben El-Tavuri - the Israeli recording duo who signed a megadeal in the US after their hits...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 23, 20202 min read


Yad Vashem's Race Against Time to Collect All 6 Million Names
There are only 400,000 survivors of the Holocaust left alive today. These are the only people who can provide the pages of testimony...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 22, 20201 min read


Where Does All the Aid Money to Palestinians End Up?
One of the most common questions I get as a tour guide of Israel is "why is there no peace between Israelis and Palestinians?" Well, one...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 22, 20203 min read


Español: 7 Maneras De Visitar Israel Desde Su Casa
Aunque mi sitio web solo está en Inglés y yo guío principalmente en inglés, también puedo hablar un poco de español. Y esto es útil para...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 22, 20201 min read


World Refugee Day: Comparing Palestinian & Jewish Refugees
As a tour guide of Israel, one question I often get is about the refugee issue. In the Israeli Arab conflict, the issue of Palestinian...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 21, 20204 min read


Pride Alert: Israel Sets a New LGBT Record
While the famed Tel Aviv Pride Parade could not occur this year due to COVID-19, there is something else that the LGBT community in...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 21, 20202 min read


Beersheva - From Camel Market to Cultural and Innovation Hub
From the time Abraham dug 7 wells there some 3800 years ago [giving the place its name] until about 10 years ago, nothing really happened...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 21, 20202 min read


What are the 10 Most Iconic Archaeological Sites in Israel?
Do you dig Israel? Do you think you know your stuff? Someone (not an Israel guide) made their list of what she believes to be the 10 most...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 19, 20201 min read


The Legal Status of Cannabis In Israel
On my second night of the first Israel trip I ever led (as a staff member, not as an Israel tour guide), back in the mid-1990s, 3 of my...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 18, 20201 min read


Beautiful Aerial Video of the Jordan River and Lake Kinneret
You may have heard me say on more than on occasion that as a tour guide of Israel, the north of the country is my favorite part of Israel....

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 18, 20201 min read


The Amazing Street Art of Machane Yehuda Market
Over the last 5 years the incredible street artist Solomon Souza has turned Jerusalem's famed Machane Yehuda food market into his own...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 18, 20201 min read


The Conflict in the Middle East; Not What You Think
As a tour guide of Israel, here is an exercise that I do when explaining geopolitics... Close your eyes and picture the conflict in the...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 17, 20202 min read


New TV Shows & Music From Israel
In the last number of years, the amount of high-quality Israeli TV series have flooded the online-streaming market. Shows like Fauda,...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 17, 20202 min read


Insane Celebrity Israel Experience Online Auction... For Charity
Hang out with Gal Gadot (on Zoom). Be on Fauda and chill with lead actor Lior Raz. Spend the day with Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli at...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 17, 20201 min read


10 Amazing Israel Puzzles Available on Amazon
Can't get to Israel right now? Well you can have a piece of Israel - or 500 or 1000 of them for that matter - at home right now. Check...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 16, 20201 min read


When Is Israel Opening Up For Tourism?
As a tour guide of Israel, this is the question I have been asked most often over the last month or so: When is Israel opening up for...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 16, 20202 min read


Politics Update: What's The Deal With "Annexation?"
Major decisions that we take often boil down to doing what is smart vs. doing what is right. In the current political situation in...

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel
Jun 16, 20203 min read
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