Our team

Meet the best freediving team in the Middle East - a team that is family

Our founders

Master Ariel Kedmi

Founder of the school, Israeli champion in freediving and founder of the "Sefat Hayam" project. Senior Apnea Total instructor and Molchanovs' instructor, one of the founders of Blue Chitta and Yoga Shak Montreal, and an international expert in breathing and yoga. "I fell in love with the sea when I arrived in Eilat at the age of 23 and worked as a diving instructor. After 4 years in the field, and while studying yoga and breathing, a door opened for me to the world of freediving. The connection was immediate. This time, when I experienced the deep silence for the first time, the ability to "fly" underwater and glide to the depths with peace of mind, my life changed. I moved to Thailand, where I focused on training and teaching freediving for two years. From there, I continued to train and teach in freediving clubs around the world, from Eilat to Mozambique and from Mexico to the islands of Honduras and Panama. During this time, I was also part of a safety diver team in 3 international competitions, including the Diamond in the Crown, the World Freediving Championship, in which I also participated as a competitor. In July 2018, together with Adam Hale, my partner, we opened the club "Freedive Israel", where we make the world of diving accessible Free to the general public, in the atmosphere and standards that we learned and taught at the world's leading diving clubs. In May 2019, I took part in an international free diving competition in the Blue Hole in Sinai, where I broke the Israeli record for depth diving with cwtb fins. "Depth is never the goal, depth comes as a byproduct of comfort, connection and relaxation."

Master Adam Hale

"The sea and water have always been an inseparable part of my life. I was born into the world at the birth of water. In my childhood and youth, as a swimmer and free-diving fisherman, I was drawn to the water and the sea with all my heart. After my military service as a commander in a paratroopers' division, I flew to travel the world and stopped on the island of Utila, where I lived on a boat and opened a restaurant. After a while, I was exposed to the field of free diving on the island at the Freedive Utila school, where I was guided by diving instructor Ariel Kedmi.

Jordan Akhrek Hale

Manager at the Israel Freediving Club, freediving instructor, professional underwater photographer, and responsible for marketing and activities at the school. "My journey with the sea began when I arrived in Eilat for a scuba diving course. During the course, I met Adam, who was a free diver and told me about this world. From there, after I fell in love with the sea, I also fell in love with Adam and we set off together on a journey to the East, where I started free diving and did the master's course on Koh Tao Island in Thailand. We returned to Israel, opened the Israel Free Diving School, and after a year I returned to Thailand to complete an instructor course. I think the feeling that enchants me most about water is that the water simply accepts us all, no matter how we got there. The sea helps me accept myself, in the silence of holding my breath, in the gentle touch of the water on my skin. When I dive, my thoughts are completely neutralized, and every time I surface, I seem to come back to life, and there is no more refreshing and powerful feeling than that, literally rebirth. Last year, I started taking professional underwater photos while free diving and I enjoy it wildly. It's fun to share The beauty under the water and the beauty and gentleness of free diving. I enjoy spreading the sport to as many people as possible, knowing that everyone who touches the world of water and breathing will indeed make the world a better place."

Our team

Omer Kedem

Freediving instructor at the Israel Freediving School "Ever since I can remember, I have been connected to sports and the sea. The combination of them in freediving, in addition to the fact that, unlike other types of sports, adrenaline is not a game but relaxation and self-control, attracted me. My encounter with the world of freediving began towards the end of my military service as a soldier in the Magellan unit Towards the end of my service, I entered the world of freediving when I did the basic course and there I realized that the world of diving was going to be a significant part of my life. After returning from a trip to the East and beginning my psychology studies at the Open University, I decided to attend a masters course (which lasts about a month) During the course, I decided to move to the Red Sea-Eilat in order to deepen my knowledge, receive new tools for life and teach and connect more people to a magical and intriguing world that can only teach us a lot about ourselves. My goal is to open up the world of freediving to more people as a sport, experience, hobby and, for the brave, as a way of life. Diving "Can teach us a lot about our thinking patterns, our behavior patterns and how we can direct them to the desired place." Life is not the amount of breathe we take, its the moment that takes your breath away"

Roy Bar Niv

My connection to the sea began as a child born in Eilat. Over time, this connection grew stronger and I found the sea as a place of refuge for me, which makes me feel part of something vast and magnificent. Throughout my life, I have made the marine environment a way of life, whether it be surfing, diving or protecting the sea. I started my journey as a tank diver MD)). When I was exposed to the world of free diving, I quickly realized that this was my place, this was the life I wanted to live. The peace and tranquility along with the powerful connection to myself and nature simply called to me. I arrived at this magical place called "Freediving Israel" which simply brought me together with such special and good people who quickly became friends. The feeling of awareness along with uncertainty makes me feel so connected and unmasked in the world of water. I am a free diving instructor, living in Eilat with my dog. Freediving is a big part of who I am and what I am, every day I learn anew and delve deeper into it. Today I know and feel more than ever that I am part of the sea and it is part of me and this belonging will exist forever. "It is not the length of life, but its depth"

Goni Bergman

A free diver, working in an office team, and the one who knows how to answer everyone's every question, and makes sure we all have order in our heads :) "The world of free diving was revealed to me after a certain period of time when I lived in Eilat and I couldn't stop hearing about this crazy world. Everywhere I went, there were rumors about free diving in Israel. So I came to check out what it was all about and I fell completely in love with diving and the people. From there, I left my previous job and came to work in an office with Jordan! Free diving for me is a place for personal work in the most powerful way I have ever experienced in my life. A place where I meet the good and bad voices inside my head and learn to manage them. I dive into endless silence, listening and observing with curiosity about the sensations, emotions and thoughts."

Yona Baldesser

Freediving Instructor and Master's Program Instructor at Freediving Israel School "In everyday life we run after our goals non-stop. We tend to forget to take a breath and stop, to experience ourselves, life, the experience of ourselves, and to truly sense, feel and appreciate that we are here now. This is what freediving means to me, this moment when I take my last breath and all that is left for me is to experience myself here and now. For me, the people were what attracted me at first, I met very special people who connect with themselves in a very different and unique way, and I knew I wanted to take and be a part." Turn on, tune in, drop out - Timothy Leary My favorite animal - Orca

Or Maron Asher

As a child I spent a lot of time in the sea, but due to my fear of the depths I never went beyond the point where my feet left the ground. During my military service I was exposed to the world of breath-holding through the Wim Hof method, and after the military and after a trip to Israel, I came to Eilat and the Freedive Israel Club for a basic course, with the aim of overcoming my fear. The course for me was a deep and exciting experience that completely sucked me into the world of freediving and made me fall in love with the sea. After the course I continued to dive and explore what this thing meant to me, and after a while I became an instructor at the club. The sea for me is quiet and medicinal, a mirror that reflects the inner world and washes away sediment.

Song of Ben Haim

Bar Kuglowicz

Do you know those moments? Those moments when you were most present. Those moments when you felt that your destiny on our beautiful planet was being fulfilled. So here is my moment. My story begins somewhere in Sinai. My parents, who were sailors, would flock to those beaches on a regular basis, and as a child I would drag myself after them with no choice (accompanied by a snorkel and mask, of course). I would spend hours upon hours in the water, observing nature, connecting. I would also play in the community pool, holding my breath, collecting coins from the bottom, and swimming back and forth around the pool underwater in an attempt to gain as much distance as possible. Go explain to an 8-year-old about his destiny. Today, I am happy to say with all my heart that I am fulfilling my destiny and starting to instruct free diving. So if you are a nature person, if when you are near the sea the smell of moisture and salt sends shivers through you, if when your foot touches the sand you feel your energy flowing to the ground, if when your head is underwater you feel the most peaceful you have ever felt, if you surf, if you are afraid of fish, the sea and life in general and want to learn about yourself on the most intimate level possible. I invite you to come with me to a deep process, which combines a connection to nature and ourselves. Come see what you are capable of, you won’t believe how much power lies within you. ‏Let’s get fearless ‏Let’s become invisible ‏Let’s go diving

Come on, we are waiting to meet you in Eilat!