Korean on Asians in Israel - Community, Jobs, Events

Chef Ash

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:00:00 +0300

Chef Ash is a Korean cooking workshop service based in Tel Aviv, offering hands-on experiences for groups of friends, families, and private events. Workshops cover a range of Korean techniques including gyoza folding methods, making ramen from scratch, Korean corn dogs (Gamja Hotdog), Thai-style sriracha, and coconut curry.

Begopa — Korean Private Dining

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0300

Begopa (בגופה — Korean for “I’m hungry”) is the private-dining project of South-Korean-born chef Tajin Kim-Doron (טג’ין קים-דורון), who hosts small, authentic Korean meals at her home in Kfar Saba. Each sitting is an intimate supper-club format: reservations are made via Ontopo, and the exact address is shared once the booking is confirmed.

Asian Community Organizations & Cultural Centers in Israel (2026)

Fri, 29 May 2026 14:00:00 +0300

Israel is home to a large and varied Asian diaspora — Thai agricultural workers, Filipino caregivers, Japanese expats, Korean residents, Indian professionals and Bnei Israel Jews, Chinese students and entrepreneurs, and communities from across Southeast and South Asia. Behind this population sits a dense institutional layer: embassies, government cultural centers, diaspora associations, meditation centers, museums, and NGOs. Whether you need consular services, are looking for language classes, want to connect with a cultural community, or need workers’-rights support, there is an organization for it.

Asian Cooking Classes in Israel: Learn Japanese, Thai, Korean & More (2026)

Fri, 29 May 2026 14:00:00 +0300

Eating great Asian food in Israel has become easy. Learning to cook it is a different story — until recently, that meant importing a cookbook and improvising. A growing number of cooking instructors have changed that: Japanese immigrants teaching miso-making in their home kitchens, a Thai chef with 28 years of Bangkok-trained experience running workshops from the Galilee, a Korean MasterChef finalist hosting private dinners in Kfar Saba. The options now span every budget and every corner of the country.

Asian Restaurants in Haifa: The Complete 2026 Guide

Fri, 29 May 2026 14:00:00 +0300

Haifa does multiculturalism differently than Tel Aviv. The Arab-Jewish coexistence of the Carmel hillsides, the international student population at the Technion, the port workers and shipping engineers who arrive from across Asia, the old German Colony cafés sitting beside Palestinian hummus shops — all of it creates an appetite for diversity that extends to the table. Asian cuisine has found a receptive home here, and the scene is more varied than visitors often expect.

Learn Japanese, Korean & Chinese in Israel: Language Schools & Classes (2026)

Fri, 29 May 2026 12:00:00 +0300

Israel is one of the world’s more unlikely hubs for East Asian language learning — and the scene is bigger than most people realise. Anime and manga have driven a generation of young Israelis to pick up Japanese. K-pop and K-drama have made Korean the fastest-growing language class in the country. And Mandarin Chinese has earned its place in business and academia, attracting both expats maintaining ties to China and locals who see it as a serious career asset.

Korean Restaurants in Israel: The Complete 2026 Guide

Fri, 29 May 2026 10:00:00 +0300

Israel’s Korean food scene is small but real. Where the country has 342 Japanese restaurants spanning everything from Tokyo-trained omakase counters to neighbourhood ramen bars, there are roughly 10 Korean establishments in the whole country — and most opened within the last few years. The driving force is the same one reshaping menus from London to São Paulo: K-pop and K-drama have made Korean food aspirational. Younger Israelis who grew up watching Korean content now want to eat kimchi jjigae and bibimbap, and a small but growing number of Korean expats and food entrepreneurs are here to serve them.

Where to Buy Asian Ingredients in Israel: The Complete Guide (2026)

Fri, 29 May 2026 10:00:00 +0300

Finding the right ingredients is half the battle when cooking Asian food in Israel. The supermarkets that most Israelis use — Shufersal, Rami Levy, Mega — carry soy sauce and jasmine rice, but that is roughly where pan-Asian coverage ends. For gochujang, rice paper, miso paste, bonito flakes, fresh Thai basil, galangal, or any of the hundred or so things that make Asian cooking taste right, you need a specialist. The good news is that Israel now has them, spread across the country, covering Korean, Japanese, Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Thai and pan-Asian cooking.

The Best Asian Restaurants in Israel: 2026 Guide

Thu, 14 May 2026 12:00:00 +0300

Asia eats well in Israel — far better than most newcomers expect. Tel Aviv alone has hundreds of Japanese kitchens; Thai food has been a fixture for decades; and the last few years have brought a wave of dedicated Korean, Vietnamese and regional Chinese openings, plus a steady spread of restaurants well beyond the big cities. This is our master guide to all of it: a starting point that routes you to a focused, regularly-updated guide for each cuisine.

Tel Aviv Eat 2026 — the Asian-food guide to Israel's biggest food festival

Mon, 11 May 2026 09:00:00 +0300

Tel Aviv Eat is back for its 10th edition — Israel’s largest food festival, taking over Charles Clore Park on the Jaffa beachfront for four nights, Monday 11 to Thursday 14 May 2026, 18:00–23:00. Entry is free; you pay per dish at each stall, with portions priced between ₪25–45. The 2026 lineup runs to ~80 stalls; we’ve cross-referenced the official lineup against our directory and confirmed six Asian-cuisine stalls, all real Tel Aviv outfits you can also visit year-round.

Bar-Ilan University — Department of Asian Studies

Tue, 05 May 2026 10:00:00 +0300

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Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Asian Studies is one of Israel’s main academic centres for the interdisciplinary study of Asia. Programmes span East Asia (China, Japan, Korea), South Asia (India), and Southeast Asia, combining language acquisition with history, politics, religion, and contemporary affairs.

Rejuran Lands in Israel, Marketed Explicitly as Korean

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0300

Rejuran, the salmon-DNA polynucleotide injectable made by Seoul-based Pharma Research, officially reached Israeli clinics in September 2025. What stands out is not that another K-beauty product arrived — several have — but how uniformly every tier of the Israeli rollout leans on one word: Korean.

GenAI Creative Prompt Writer - Alice (formerly ActiveFence)

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0300

Alice (formerly ActiveFence) is a global leader in trust, safety, and AI security, protecting over 3 billion users and supporting the world’s largest tech platforms and AI models. The company, headquartered in Ramat Gan, empowers companies to operate safely and responsibly through real-time guardrails, continuous red teaming, and intelligence-driven content detection across 117+ languages.

Eastern Block

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0300

Eastern Block is a chain of Asian grocery stores with a particularly strong Korean product selection, including Buldak, Nongshim, tteokbokki, soju, and Korean snacks. Founded in 2020, the chain has grown to four locations across Gush Dan and offers over 423 products spanning Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Indian cuisines.

Begopa Korean Dining

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0300

K-Pop World Festival Israel

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0300

Horangi Korean Grocery