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Overview

  • 7 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Hebrew (modern); learning German, Spanish
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • No occupation listed
  • Yeah, had some of that (was delicious)
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

ABOUT ME

That's going to take some time... I'm Israeli, born and raised in Haifa, and now living in Beer-Sheva. I try to do a little of anything that I find interesting, but there's still a long list of things I haven't gotten to.
My main love and occupation is Mathematics. I work as a researcher and teacher at Ben-Gurion university in Beer-Sheva, as a PhD student. I work mostly in Algebra, in the field of Representation theory and Number theory, and would love to chat on the subject with anyone who is willing to listen :).
My second love, and side-occupation is Music. I play the French-horn in the Beer-Sheva wind orchestra, and the trumpet in several Tel-Aviv based bands, and bass in another band and I have my own solo gig (where I sing and play guitar). I think I also play piano and harmonicas, but not completely sure about that.. Anyhow, I love doing that, and I love jamming in any style and with any one, from arabic music, through reggea and funk, up to straight blues and jazz.
Other then that, I like all sorts of other things. Art is another great interest. Cooking as well.
And I think that might be actually something like 70% about me, so that's close enough for now :)

PHILOSOPHY

Everything is interesting.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Very positive. I have had some very interesting guests at my place in Beer-Sheva, and am looking forward to hosting more people.

When travelling in Europe, I participated as a surfer, trying to couchsurf in most towns I went through, or at least participate in couchsurfing activities whenever I couldn't find a couch.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Very good. There's something truly wonderful about this method of making new contacts in new place. It's a great way to diminish the feeling of foreignness that is an inevitable part of experiencing a new city.
Apart from just surfing, I also use couchsurfing as a way to meet interesting people and discover cool things to do in places I go, via the event-boards and local forums. So far this method has proved very useful.

Interests

Everything (but mostly music and art and math)

  • arts
  • dining
  • cooking
  • traveling
  • painting
  • music
  • jazz
  • guitar
  • piano
  • trumpet
  • blues
  • teaching
  • mathematics

Teach, Learn, Share

Number theory and geometry, painting, music (theory, trumpet, guitar, bass).

What I Can Share with Hosts

Music and Food

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