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Samuel Green

Tour Guide, Educator, Music Lover, Zionist

Oct 7, 2024, 6:18 AM

The hardest thing to accept: I’m powerless

Credit: Francesco Sgura via MotionArray.com

One year on from the terrible events of Oct 7, this is an attempt to gather a miscellany of thoughts that I have been struggling with over the past twelve months. Some are deeply personal, some are bigger picture....

Jul 26, 2023, 12:21 AM

My lament for Tisha B’Av: I want to belong

I'm homeless in this political landscape I feel like I have nowhere to go. That I don’t belong. I’m stuck in the middle. As the current government wages a war of attrition on the Israeli Supreme Court, Israelis are choosing sides....

Apr 8, 2022, 1:53 AM

Gunshots outside my window took me back 20 years

The dining room at the Park Hotel in Netanya after a terror attack on seder night 2002. (Noam Sharon / Israel Defense Forces)

Another busy week had come to its close. My wife had headed out to meet up with some friends. The kids were finally asleep. I made myself some supper and sat down in front of the TV to finally...

Dec 5, 2021, 4:30 AM

Wiley is still a racist…and no one cares

Richard Cowie, aka Wiley. Source: WikiCommons

Wiley is back in the headlines. The MC and self-styled “Godfather of Grime” (grime is a rough and ready music genre with roots in UK garage, hip hop and jungle) is once again spewing his racist anti-Jewish filth on...

Jul 30, 2020, 7:01 PM

I’m Grateful to Wiley for Exposing How Bad This Is

Shortly before shabbat came in last week, I discovered that Wiley, the “Godfather of Grime”, an MC and musician that I looked up to, had gone on a wild antisemitic rant on Twitter. I brought in shabbat feeling a...

Mar 12, 2020, 5:12 PM

Fighting the Effects of the Coronavirus in Israel

Baggage reclaim at Ben Gurion Airport, the afternoon of Thursday 12th March 2020

The coronavirus has already had a significant impact on our way of life. Around the world people are shunning physical contact, are washing their hands with a new intensity, are weighing up whether or not to step into crowded...

About Me

Samuel is an award-winning tour guide in Israel. Born in England, he moved to Tel Aviv 10 years ago, via a few years in Geneva, Switzerland. After some years in the corporate world, he decided to follow his passion and qualify as a tour guide. When not guiding, he runs an Israeli music radio show, makes music, writes, and enjoys hanging out with his daughter.

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