journeys

Rogel Alpher with left-wing icon Uri Avnery – Journeys

Throughout his long and eventful life, Uri Avnery – a former politician, journalist, prolific author and indefatigable peace activist – has been at numerous crossroads in Israel’s history and public life.

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Rogel Alpher with Orphaned Land’s Kobi Farhi – Journeys

Orphaned Land fuses progressive, doom and death metal with Arabic folk music. Kobi Farhi, co-founder and lead singer of the band, says growing up in Jaffa inspired him to write about co-existence.

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Rogel Alpher with rock legend Ronnie Peterson – Journeys

One of Israel’s foremost blues and rock’n’roll guitarists was born in Germany to an American father and a German mother. He came to Tel Aviv for a short visit in the 1980s, and has never left.

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Rogel Alpher with artist Hanoch Piven – Journeys

Ernesto Piven was 11 years old when he moved to Israel and became Hanoch. Initially feeling like an outsider, he began drawing caricatures. Eventually he moved to New York and achieved international success as an illustrator and caricaturist. But something was missing…

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Rogel Alpher with ‘micro novelist’ Alex Epstein – Journeys

    Alex Epstein started writing as a young kid, in an attempt to imagine exciting alternatives to his life. The result of this life-long endeavor is his varied oeuvre, consisting of fantastical short stories. Famous for his so-called micro-fiction – ‘one-line stories’ – Alex’s work has been translated into English, Russian, Greek. In 2003,…

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Rogel Alpher with Marina Toshich – Journeys

    Born an only child in Sarajevo, Marina Toshich was influenced by the culturally diverse music scene found in the streets of her Bosnian capital. Throughout her life, Marina experimented with cultural activities ranging from plastic art, piano, horseback riding, and swimming at the 1985 Maccabiah Games in Israel. After the Gulf War in…

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Dani Dayan, the secular settler leader – Journeys

From 2006, Dani Dayan served as the Chairman of the Yesha Council – the organization of municipal councils of Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

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Rogel Alpher with Akin Ajayi – Journeys

    Brought up in London, 6 year old Akin Ajayi had to change his residence to the hot-noisy-sweaty-crowded Lagos. Lagos is the largest city in southwestern Nigeria. He treated that as an adventure, but went through stages where he felt homesick. Although his English was impeccable Akin had a tough time making new friends as…

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