I was born and raised in israel and I learned to tattoo over there
and worked at the main studios in Tel-Aviv. Tattoos are forbidden
by our religion but most of the people aren’t religious there. 10-15
years ago people looked at you weird if you had a tattoo on you be-
cause it was forbidden by religion or because the holocaust when
Jews were marked with ink and numbers by the Nazis, so this is the
2 main issues for people to not getting a tattoo over there. As the
years go by people in Israel are starting to accept the idea of having
tattoos mostly because of the mass media. There were more and
more tv shows appearing about tattoos like LA ink and Ink Master.
More and more celebrities were getting tattoos and people
wanted to be like them so now times are changing. In Israel, more
and more tattoo studios are opening and we have more studios in
Israel than you can imagine. Now is the golden age of tattooing in
Israel. People are doing tattoos all over their body so it is kind of a
revolution.
It looks like you spend a lot of time drawing, what do you do in your
spare time?
I like this question:) I’m partying a lot going to gigs here in Chicago.
Punk and ska, and hardcore music parties, drinking and having fun,
yea im a bit of a hooligan going to sleep late and drawing till morn-
ing and crying that i’m tired all the time… but honestly I’m drawing a
lot and if you like to be better and achieve your dream you need to
work hard. I got warts on the fingers because of drawing so much,
but this is the cost for be a artist and work with your hands.
If you could pick one person you would love to tattoo - dead or alive
- who would it be?
That is a great question again, I grew up in Kibbutz ( Kibbutz is a
unique form of cooperative settlement for Zionism Settlement and
the State of Israel, based on Zionism’s desire for renewed settle-
ment in the Land of Israel and socialist values - equality between
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