Tomer Dahari, a 25-year-old photographer from Ashkelon, has turned a childhood interest in the Bible and ancient history into a popular series of travel videos about mysterious sites across Israel. He visits places from Sodom and Gomorrah to Gilgal Refaim, from Jaffa to Mount Hermon, linking texts, traditions and field findings while deliberately leaving viewers with unanswered questions.
Dahari said he long felt these topics were old-fashioned and uninteresting to others, until a close friend questioned why anyone would care. Later, a YouTube video by attorney Ohev Cohen, who presents himself as a Bible and ancient-traditions researcher, changed his path. Cohen was exploring whether Sodom and Gomorrah could be identified near the Dead Sea, and the two began working together. Cohen brings the research, Dahari says, and he makes it accessible on camera.
One of their most watched videos focused on Sodom and Gomorrah, the biblical cities destroyed in Genesis, filmed near the Dead Sea close to Masada. Dahari says he never claims certainty, only that the site is among the strongest possibilities. Another successful video examined Gilgal Refaim on the Golan Heights, a circle of huge stones with a subterranean structure. Dahari says he became fascinated by legends of giants, Nephilim, Og king of Bashan and Goliath, and the site may have been a cultic or astronomical structure, though science has no firm answer.
Their searches also took them to Sinai, in connection with the parting of the Red Sea and the Exodus, and to Jaffa for the story of Andromeda and the sea monster. Dahari also reframes places like Hiriya, which many see only as a landfill, and Mount Hermon, which he links to ancient traditions and the Book of Enoch. He says the same approach has made him see Ashkelon differently too. Across all of it, he says his goal is not to prove truth but to spark curiosity, push people off their screens and into the field.
