War, Poerty, Memory Ron Ben Tovim is a post-doctoral researcher focusing on online contemporary American and British post-war poetry in the aftermath of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ron himself was a soldier in Israel’s Defense Forces during the Lebanon War. In both his academic and artistic work, he has been dealing with questions of identity…

Yesterday night, less than 50 days before the 2019 elections, we hosted Omer Benjakob at the Ulpan to learn about Israeli political system and those fighting to oust Netanyahu from power. Omer Benjakob is a journalist, a senior news editor at Haaretz in English, and a good friend of the Ulpan. In his 90 minute talk, Omer explains the current politi…

Ella Fussmann, Biologist and student of Ulpan Bayit talked with us about plastic pollution and microplastics, where it’s coming from, where it’s going to and most importantly, what we can do in order to make things a bit better. Ella will soon have a website about plastic pollution – follow her instagram to be updated: ella._ma And follow our faceb…

KOSTA KAPLAN & ADIEL GOLDMAN are both incredibly cool and talented teachers at Ulpan Bayit. They do everything together, they teach at the same place and play in the same bands. They arrive to classes in between their concerts and we thought it’s time they’ll teach us some Hebrew using their music! Using their songs they will teach us a bit on thei…

On Wednesday, July 18th, Israel has passed a law denying gay couples of the right to surrogacy. At the same time Israel is using it’s LGBT community to show the liberal side of our country around the world. But what rights do gay people actually have in Israel? Is Israel’s use of the community misleading? And where are we heading now that laws are …