Peres Center for Peace and Innovation

"Absolutely incredible place.
Highly recommend a visit to appreciate how Israel has been blessed by Gd to innovate in the most amazing ways.
Stunning view of the ocean as well!"

Benjamin F

"Amazing experience. Coming here was one of my most favorite things to do in Israel. The virtual reality game put me in awe along with my group.

This center is the focal point of innovation and shows how much Simon Perez contributed to the overall innovation of Israel. Everything over here was worth looking at and studying - I would highly recommend this place, if you are visiting Israel."

Kamal Ahmad

"During my last holiday break, I visited the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation.

The visit is part of a guided tour of up to 25 participants only after purchasing tickets in advance on the center's website. The tour is recommended for ages 10 and up and is available in 4 languages ​​to choose from Hebrew, Arabic, English and Chinese.

The center offers full accessibility for the disabled, a storage service and even a cold water bar. A nice surprise is that there is free parking, right next to the center, an amazing benefit in Tel Aviv.

Unlike visiting any other state site in Israel or the world, the place is neatly designed and full of personal charm.

The architecture of the building is very special, which sends the visitor a clear message and invites him to be part of an interesting world that holds a fascinating future for the benefit of all mankind.

The visit is a 90 min guided interactive tour that goes through different stations in the building.

Immediately upon entering, we were greeted by a welcoming guide. After a brief and exhaustive explanation in "The Hall of Inspiration", we moved to the other part of the main hall for an impressive space where several human-sized screens were set up for personal experience in an impressive virtual meeting with Israel's leading entrepreneurs, who each presented in turn by our personal choice the innovation secrets they personally led.

From there we climbed the steps of the building in an impressive space to the first floor for the "Nation of Innovation" for the Israeli innovation story of the most promising startups and developments exist today.

Immediately after we were led into President Shimon Peres's original workroom impressively restored, where he has worked in his last years soaking up his inspiration and translating his dreams into reality.

From the workroom we proceeded to the second floor to the "capsule", a surprisingly interactive and impressive 3D design that conveys the visitor to a futuristic world.

The futuristic virtual meeting is well-crafted and presents a timely journey through the spectacles along with cameras that scan visitors' movements to empower the interactive experience and give a taste of the future challenges of humanity and tomorrow's technologies.

It was a sweeping experience and the proof of this can be obtained from the cries of pleasure and happiness of the children and their parents who fill the hall throughout the performance.

The last is "Contemporary Innovation Gallery" exhibit, where Israeli`s startups and promising development companies are present.

One of the most surprising things during the tour, in my opinion, was the stand in which an Israeli startup raising grasshoppers for human consumption was introduced.

The problem of securing food supplies in the future becomes very topical, by 2050 the global demand for food will double, and no one has any idea how the world will be able to supply it. The Israeli startup managed to reduce grasshopper growing time from nine weeks to two weeks ... amazing. The surprising part of the story is that we were given the opportunity to taste the grasshoppers... And for those who care about the kosher thing… grasshoppers are kosher 😀

Of Course some of the visitors were as enthusiastic as I was to taste the grasshoppers and there were those who were only frightened at the idea of putting an insect in their mouths.

Finally, we were led into a wide room for an escape room-style experience to try and discover with the help of various clues to open a locked box with a number of locks. My impression of the children and their parents who chose to stay and experiment that everyone were greatly enjoyed.

It was amazing.

My guest was delighted and thrilled by the impressive visit and I, too. Initially I was skeptical in the end I very much enjoyed and even learned a thing or two 😀"

Oren Tzror