Fashion Bloggers – October/November 2012
Food Bloggers – June/July 2012
It’s hard to put it all into words – and it’s probably a lot better if you hear it from them… but here are some of the highlights:
- Jerusalem – Culinary tour of the Old City and Machne Yehuda Market
- We got up front and personal with local celebrity chefs including Eyal Shani (HaSalon, Tel Aviv), Ezra Kedem (Arcadia, Jerusalem), Haim Tibi (Muscat, Mizpe Hayamim)Aviv Moshe (Messa, Tel Aviv)
- Lunch at an Arabic Restaurant – Haj Kahil
- A Tour of Bnei Barak’s Sabbath food preparations
- Nightlife culinary tour of Tel Aviv (took place during the Tel Aviv White Night, right after the Bnei Barak tour – an extra special contrast effect)
- Innovation session with Israeli start-ups that have products especially made for food bloggers (a must-have session when in ‘The Start-up Nation’!)
- Home hospitality – Friday night dinner at a lovely home in Newe Zedek (Tel Aviv)
- Visit The Volcani Institute’s squash and zucchini farms
- Tour of Strauss’ humus and salad factory in Carmiel
- One-on-one sessions with local food bloggers who took them to their favorite places
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We introduced them to some amazing bands, singers and people behind the scenes of the Indie-rock music world, including: Friday night dinner at Nir & Ilana Brand‘s beautiful home in the Carmel Market, together with Kobi Farhi the lead singer of the heavy metal band Orphaned Land and Mira Awad, who took the darbuka and sang some beautiful songs for us in the living room!
We were lucky enough to meet the crews of Monocrave, Audiomontage and Anova Music who organized some great showcases (the latter also organized a cool mingling even for us!) – we got to see Acollective, Geva Alon, Ninet, Marsh Dondurma, Shmemel, The Apples, Boom Pam, Izabo, Kitzu, Rockfour, Electra & Eatliz. We had a tailor made home show by Oren Barzilay and even sneaked into a few concerts: Useless Id, Tiny Fingers and Mashina & Infected Mushrooms!
We were also hosted by Yossi Fine & Khalas – the Arab Rock Orchestra, Karolina & The Balkan Beat Box while they were each rehearsing and got to visit Idan Raichel, Achinoam Nini and Kutiman in their own private homes!
Had the honor of spending time with some cool Israel buddies: eating a meal with Liron Teeni (who also interviewed then live on radio), lunch on the Tel Aviv seaport with Quami de la Fox and Nadav Ravid, dinner/dancing with Ivri Lider and TYP.
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Design Bloggers – November 2011
We showed them places of interest including: the pre-opening viewing of the DECODE exhibit at the Holon Design Museum, a private tour of Houses From Within, a private tour of Tel Aviv Museum of Art (new wing) where exhibiting designer Yaacov Kaufman and video artist Ben Hagari met the group and talked about their exhibits, VIP tour of the Israel Museum led by Executive Curator Mira Lapidot, Studios of up and coming designers including Kobi Levi (shoe designer), Peleg Design, Monkey Business, Studio Khan, Ototo, customade, Braverman Gallery in addition to tourism sites including Jerusalem’s old city, the museum in Kibbutz Ein Harod up North including a lunch with an amazing view from Mt. Gilboa.
Throughout the tour, the bloggers were accompanied by Israel Buddies – some well-known locally and even internationally and others not well-known at all, just normal people with common points of interest.
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Mommy Bloggers – June/July 2011
We showed them places of interest including: Holon – the city of children and it’s children’s museum and design museum, Dyada, A-B-See-Do exhibition, The Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, Mahuti in addition to tourism sites including Jerusalem’s old city, The Dead Sea and Kibbutz Ein Gedi in the desert.
Throughout the tour, the bloggers were accompanied by Israel Buddies – some well-known locally and even internationally and others not well-known at all, just normal people with common points of interest.
Click here to learn more about the bloggers and the Israel Buddies.
