Course Thoughts
Reflections from the two-year Israeli tour-guide course (2012–2014) and the licensing exams that followed. Less about the sites visited (those live in the geographic categories) and more about the process: what the course was like, the breadth of material covered, and what it took to qualify.
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12 articles
Jerusalem: a summary and a conclusion
The final field trip of the course: a day around Jerusalem taking in the tomb of the prophet Samuel at Nabi Samuel, the Jaffa Gate, the Tower of David, Christ Church, a walk along the Old City ramparts, and Nachlaot and the Machane Yehuda market, before reflecting back on the past year and a half.
Accepted!
I passed the va'adat kabalah, including an 8-10 minute Hebrew speech on the history of hip hop (not, it turns out, a subject the panel had previously encountered). The course starts in October.
If you are going to Israel, you would be mad not to give him a call.
Amol Rajan, BBC presenter and broadcaster
Having been on trips in Israel with seven different tour guides, Samuel stood above all the rest.
Seasoned Israel traveller
Samuel is one part walking encyclopedia, one part storyteller, one part stand-up comedian.
Berkeley Haas Business School student