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Meet the Israeli Artist Behind The Famous Hipster Portraits

Oct 21, 2020
2 min

Meet the Israeli Artist Behind The Famous Hipster Portraits

You have almost certainly seen his work. Now is your chance to meet the man behind the portrait. Check out these two interviews with Israeli artist Amit Shimoni, who is the creator of the hipster caricatures of famous historical celebrities and world leaders, and whose work has been commissioned across the globe. Of course if you want to meet the man in person - and see his incredible studio - then you will want to visit Israel with me, your tour guide of Israel. Not only c

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Israeli Gaming Company Playtika is Having a $10 Billion IPO

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Oct 20, 2020
2 min

Israeli Gaming Company Playtika is Having a $10 Billion IPO

As a tour guide of Israel who leads an Israel tech tour, I get great pride when startups that I have taken my clients to end up making it big. And it appears that one of them - the Israeli gaming company Playtika - is about to do just that. They are looking to float the company in NY in an IPO (initial public-offering) at a valuation of about $10 billion. You may know Playtika as they are the the sponsor of the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team. Side note, star player Ama'r

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Israelis are Trying to Set the Record for World's Largest Beach Clean-Up

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Oct 20, 2020
1 min

Israelis are Trying to Set the Record for World's Largest Beach Clean-Up

I'm very excited today. Not only did we finally get the first rains of the season today, but now that we can go outside again (after a second lockdown), Israelis are trying to do something incredible. On October 30th they will be attempting to break the record for the world's largest beach cleanup. As a tour guide of Israel, I can definitely get behind this - and hope to participate as well. Israel has incredible beaches - the sandy beaches along the Mediterranean, the co

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Jerusalem & Tel Aviv are Stealing from Each Other & it's Great!

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Oct 19, 2020
3 min

Jerusalem & Tel Aviv are Stealing from Each Other & it's Great!

Charles Dickens wrote "A Tale of Two Cities," more than half a century before Tel Aviv was even conceived. And yet, it so easily could have been about Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, two cities which are such diametric opposites. As a tour guide of Israel, I always like to ask people to compare and contrast these two cities. Yet the truth is, despite their incredible differences, there are also things which connect them - and I don't just mean the new high-speed train. When it co

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Online Jewish Classes/Courses via Pardes, Schechter & Matan

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Oct 19, 2020
1 min

Online Jewish Classes/Courses via Pardes, Schechter & Matan

Now that the Jewish holidays have finished, a number of Jewish educational institutions have started their adult education classes and courses and due to COVID-19, it is all online. If you ever wanted to learn Jewish history, philosophy, religion, etc., you now have an incredible opportunity in front of you with dozens of topics from which to choose. Before I was your Israel tour guide, I actually studied at Pardes and hope to be taking some classes that are listed here as w

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Webinars This Week on Israeli Negotiations with Lebanon and UAE/Bahrain

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Oct 19, 2020
2 min

Webinars This Week on Israeli Negotiations with Lebanon and UAE/Bahrain

The Alma Center is a fantastic research and educational center in the north of Israel which deals mainly with geopolitical and societal issues affecting the north of the country. On Monday at 12:30PM Eastern Time (7:30PM Israel Time) they will be hosting a webinar on the current negotiations between Israel and Lebanon over their maritime border. Colonel Miri Eisen will be leading the webinar (along with Brigadier General Ram Yavne); as a tour guide of Israel, I can absolute

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Shabbat Shalom from Israel: Please Pray for Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Oct 16, 2020
2 min

Shabbat Shalom from Israel: Please Pray for Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Shabbat is about to come in here in Israel. To help you welcome it, I have a video here of an IDF soldier on the army base just above Rosh HaNikra on Israel's northwest most point. Just behind the base, by the armistice line with Lebanon (the "Blue Line") is the UN base where this week Israeli and Lebanese negotiators have been talking about their maritime border. The song the soldier is playing is Shalom Aleichem - "Peace onto You" - which we sing on Friday nights to beg

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Famed Israeli Chef Yotam Ottolenghi now has a MasterClass

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Oct 16, 2020
2 min

Famed Israeli Chef Yotam Ottolenghi now has a MasterClass

Now there is an even more incredible reason to sign up for MasterClass, the online go-at-your-own-pace learning program where you learn with experts in their field. The James Beard Award-winning author of numerous cookbooks such as Jerusalem, Plenty, Flavor, Simple and Essential Ottolenghi, now has a masterclass online where he teaches you to cook over 30 Middle Eastern delights. On top of that, if you sign up for MasterClass, you don't just get access to one course, but all

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