Hava Naglila – Oren Schwartz Tour Guide and Story Teller

Oren guides tours in the Galilee area focusing on the Western Galilee. His tours are topic oriented.

For example, there is a tour called “a Path and a Song in the Galilee” – a singing tour that moves from location to location telling the story of each location; each stop participants pull out songbooks and sing songs related to that location, accompanied by an accordion. Thus at Achziv participants sing The Yarkon Bridge Trio’s song “a Night at Achziv Beach” and on the Nahariya beach they sing Natan Alterman’s “Reply Speech to an Italian Captain” a song written following the removal of Ma’apilim (illegal immigrants) from the “Hanna Senesh” ship in 1945 on the Nahariya coast. At Gesher Haziv participants sing “D’Hilak Motke” written after the Night of the Bridges and there are songs that relate to the establishment of Hanita.

Other tours Oren leads follow enchanted gardens and ancient trees; Western Galilee Efendi homes; a tour of a forgotten village through its historic homes, founders’ homes and stories of Nahariya’s founding fathers.

In addition to the tours and trips, Oren conducts special story telling evenings telling the stories of the Western Galilee – stories of the Arabic sector, Hasidic stories, Knight stories and stories.