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Talk with Israel's Former Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon

Aug 11, 20201 min read

Talk with Israel's Former Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon

Israel's former Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, gave an online talk courtesy of Stand With Us. Danon served for the past 5 years in...

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Online Classes on Judaism & Jewish History Starting Today!

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 11, 20202 min read

Online Classes on Judaism & Jewish History Starting Today!

I just finished giving my first online class (info to come about those soon) as a tour guide of Israel. That being said, there are some...

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Forget Drive-in-Theaters, Israel just started a Paddle-in-Theater

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 10, 20201 min read

Forget Drive-in-Theaters, Israel just started a Paddle-in-Theater

Cinemas are closed and people are desperate to get outside and be entertained, yet remain socially distanced. The bright minds in Tel...

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Incredible New Anti-Drone Technology From Israel

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 10, 20201 min read

Incredible New Anti-Drone Technology From Israel

Several decades ago, Israel became the world’s leader in military drone technology. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/how-israel-became-...

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One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 10, 20202 min read

One State, Two State, Red State, Blue State

As a tour guide of Israel, one of the questions I have gotten without fail on every tour for the past 13 years is “what do Israelis...

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Meet the Cats of Israel - All 2 Million of Them!

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 9, 20202 min read

Meet the Cats of Israel - All 2 Million of Them!

Yesterday was International Cat Day. In honor of that, let’s take a look at the cat situation in Israel. It is estimated that there are...

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The Most Important Archaeological Find Ever From Israel?

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 9, 20202 min read

The Most Important Archaeological Find Ever From Israel?

What was just found in Israel is incredibly rare. So rare in fact that it is the first time anything like it from the Iron Age has been...

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11 Important Things You Missed This Week About Israel/Jews

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 7, 20202 min read

11 Important Things You Missed This Week About Israel/Jews

Here are some articles, analyses and columns about important things happening in the Jewish world and in Israel which came up this week...

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8 Incredible Israeli TV Series You Should Be Watching

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 7, 20201 min read

8 Incredible Israeli TV Series You Should Be Watching

Stuck at home and can't get back to Israel (yet)? As a tour guide of Israel I of course feel your pain. In the meantime, there's no...

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Perhaps the Greatest Jewish Scholar in 1000 Years has Died

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 7, 20202 min read

Perhaps the Greatest Jewish Scholar in 1000 Years has Died

Not since the days of the greatest Jewish commentator Rashi in the 11th century [and Saint Jerome (Hieronymus) 1700 years ago], has there...

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8 Technologies From Israel Making Agriculture Greener

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 7, 20201 min read

8 Technologies From Israel Making Agriculture Greener

In this week's Torah portion, Ekev, we learn about the 7 species of the Land of Israel as well as about the covenant between God and the...

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Lebanon is a Total Mess - and Hezbollah is to Blame

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 7, 20205 min read

Lebanon is a Total Mess - and Hezbollah is to Blame

A grammatically-incorrect meme has been making its away around the Arab virtual world over the past day, placing blame for the killer...

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Shockingly, Israel Could be Going to Elections... Again

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 6, 20203 min read

Shockingly, Israel Could be Going to Elections... Again

What the last several months in Israel have confirmed for us is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (of the Likud party) is a...

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Interview with An Arab Muslim Bedouin in Israel (Video)

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 5, 20202 min read

Interview with An Arab Muslim Bedouin in Israel (Video)

How many times have you been on an Israel trip - especially as a teenager or a young adult - and you went to a "Bedouin Camp" in the...

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Your Guide to Hiking (and Trail Markers) in Israel

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 5, 20204 min read

Your Guide to Hiking (and Trail Markers) in Israel

So you have been on a hike in Israel and saw a bunch of trail markers and wanted to know what they meant. Or you plan on hiking in Israel...

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A Pool Party with Ibex at Machtesh Ramon

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 5, 20202 min read

A Pool Party with Ibex at Machtesh Ramon

An amazing video of an Israeli family on vacation at the incredible Beresheet Hotel on the edge of Machtesh Ramon (often called Ramon...

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A Film About a Shabbos Goy and a Vibrator Gone Rogue

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 4, 20202 min read

A Film About a Shabbos Goy and a Vibrator Gone Rogue

What is the most embarrassing situation a "Shabbos Goy" could be called into solve? Such is the premise of the aptly named - and...

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Israelis and Palestinians Fight Over LGBTQ... and Tahini

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 4, 20205 min read

Israelis and Palestinians Fight Over LGBTQ... and Tahini

In yet another episode of the theater of the absurd, the Palestinian LGBTQ group al-Qaws, which was founded in 2007 but recently banned...

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How are Israeli TV Shows Filming During COVID#19?

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 2, 20201 min read

How are Israeli TV Shows Filming During COVID#19?

After a two-month hiatus from filming when Israel went into lockdown due to the coronavirus epidemic, production companies went back to...

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Responses to Seth Rogen & Peter Beinart's Remarks on Israel

Kobi Tour Guide of Israel

Aug 2, 20203 min read

Responses to Seth Rogen & Peter Beinart's Remarks on Israel

Comedian and actor Seth Rogen and [pseudo] intellectual Peter Beinart have each recently come out recently with beliefs that Israel as a...

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