Episode 28 - Midburn, Israel’s Burning Man Festival with Itamar Cohen

Two Nice Jewish Boys

Eytan and Naor

Society & Culture

1.7 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Every year under the sweltering sun of the Negev Desert, a city forms for just 5 days. This city is called Midburn. Inspired by the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert, Midburn is currently the 2nd biggest “burn” event outside of the US, boasting 8,000 people in 2016. The community of people which gather each year have a fascinating story and a bona fide culture. Itamar Cohen, Midburn’s Head of Operations, joins 2NJB to talk about what it takes to be a “burner”. We also played amazing music by Ziv! Photo by Sharon Avraham

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0:00.0	Live from Tel Aviv, two nice Jewish boys, Aitzid Weinstein and Nuhr Mininger.
0:16.0	So today we have with us, Itamar Cohen.
0:18.0	Hi Ittema, how are you?
0:20.0	Hi, I'm good. How are you?
0:21.7	I'm good, I'm good.
0:22.6	Itamar, you're one of the leaders in the Midburn Festival here in Israel, and your official
0:29.3	title is which we just learned and translated as the COO, with Chief of Operations there.
0:34.6	Yeah, I was part of the founding group and uh today i'm i'm working as
0:40.8	uh one of um midburn staff oh okay so i'm sorry so give us a little like uh like one sentence
0:48.9	like the log line of of midburn what what is midburn wow in one word in one so many things um in one word
1:00.3	i guess inspiration uh would be the the most uh meaningful not not orgy that's part that's it
1:09.4	orgies are inspiring that true true true don't underestimate so
1:13.9	wait what is other okay so in more than one in like a sentence what is what is midburn what is
1:18.5	first of all like it just practically speaking what is what is it well practically speaking midburn
1:24.8	is sort of a platform um where you can come and express yourself
1:30.2	it's an event where all the content everything that happens during the event are things that are
1:39.6	created by the participants so it's a place to express yourself and to feel free. And to me personally,
1:47.8	it's a place where you can connect with other people. But the meaning and the main thing about
1:55.1	Midburn is it's different to each and every person. You'll ask 10 different people, what does Midburn mean to you?
2:02.6	Or what is it all about?
2:04.5	You'll get 10 different answers.
2:06.8	Okay. That's interesting.
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