Jonathan H. Mishal

Journalist, professional photographer, writer and an enthusiastic urban explorer. 
MFA graduate from Haifa University. 

Mishal’s city-wide art projects and urban explorations have been mentioned in ‘Untapped New York’, Lonely Planet, ‘Le Mond’, NRP, Swiss and German national radio services, The Guardian and ‘The Forward’.

With an artistic career spanning between 2003 to 2015, Mishal moved to independent curating and art journalism. Between 2021 and 2023 he led 'House of Words' gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn. 

In 2018, his explorations of the New Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv were made into a full documentary directed by Tomáš Elšík, with a premier in Sheffield Doc Fest. 

In 2023 Mishal launched the official United Nations HQ architecture tour which he initiated and developed, now part of the United Nations official public program.

Mishal’s walking tour inspired projects include ‘Warsaw Under Contraction’, preformed by artist Noa Reshef in the streets of Warsaw’s old Jewish Ghetto, Poland, 2015, ‘Metropolis’ pop-up art school in Tel Aviv, 2013 and ‘New City Project’ in the streets of Bat Yam, Israel, 2010.

Awards and Honors

2024 Presidential invitee of the Swiss International Holiday Exhibition

2024 BOTB Travel Magazine Awards

2023 PAT City Tour Operator of the Year

2023 United Nations iSeek 2023 article award

2022 Nominee for United Nations Secretary General Innovation Award

2021 Artis writers honorarium for ’Signals from the Studio’ podcast series

2020 Winner of LTG Luxury Travel Guide Awards competition

2019 Winner of LTG Luxury Travel Guide Awards competition

2017 - Shortlisted in the Luxury Travel Guide Awards competition

Press

January 17, 2023 UN Affairs, General Assembly President hosts children from around the world, on MLK Day - UN News | Global perspective Human stories

October 28, 2021 United Nation News, UN Architecture Tour in Open House New York - Delegate | The UN Intranet-iSeek for Member States

July 16, 2020 Michelle Young, Secrets of the UN headquarters - Untapped New York

March 5, 2019 Rikki Carmi, About my life in New York - Hebrew News

September 28, 2018 Claire Bastier, La gare maudite de Tel-Aviv - Le Monde

June 8, 2018 Miriam Berger, Tel Aviv’s central bus station: ‘There’s a society inside the building’ - The Guardian

April 15, 2018 Asya Chachko, A modern day Tower of Babel (following our tour to the central bus station) - YOMYOM

March 1, 2018 Karen Chernic, Where to find Tel Aviv’s best art outside of its museums - Lonely planet

January 29, 2018 Amit Noyfeld, Enter the belly of the beast - Slow blog

October 17, 2017 Reuben Lewis, The Most Unique Experiences You Can Have in Israel - The Culture Trip

June 19, 2017 Gulia Blocal, Abandoned places in Israel - Blocal Travel Blog

May 23, 2017 Liron Milstein, The Israeli guy who does tours in New York - Mako

April 28, 2017 Lukas Unholz and Judith Wipfler, Der Weisse Elefant – Ein Lebensbild vom Busbahnhof Tel Aviv - Swiss Radio and Television

April 22, 2017 Joy Bernard ‘VOLATILE AND DANGEROUS’: THE NEXUS OF POLITICS AND ART IN ISRAEL - Jerusalem Post

April 2, 2017 Natalie Twersky, New Central Bus Station report - ILTV (video)

April 27, 2016 Yarden Edelstien, Barak Twito, Bar Musari, ‘Refugees, a world at war’ project. ’against the current’. About the emigrant situation in South Tel Aviv (Video)

Jan 29, 2017 Embracing the hidden wonders of Tel Aviv, Tmuna photo blog

April 14, 2016 Sabine Brandes, ‘Schönes Monstrum’ - Jüdische Allgemeine

Aug 23, 2015 Florian Elsemüller, on the New Central Bus Station - deutschlandfunk

July 30, 2015 Yonatan Gat, The city asks me to work for free - TimeOut Tel Aviv

June 28, 2015 Avi Amit, about getting lost in the city (News item) - Nana10 news

May 27, 2015 Sharon Kantor, my urban art school, art and the city - TimeOut Tel Aviv

May 20, 2015 Judith Hertog, short interview - Views from a Real Place

May 17, 2015 Eva Schulz, interview on causes of injustice in south Tel Aviv - Hurra

May 17, 2015 Eva Schulz, South Tel Aviv - Arrival City? - Eva Schulz

Jan 29, 2015 Nufar Vachash on NVA, my new urban art program - TimeOut Tel Aviv

Dec 29, 2015 Eitan Buganim on my solo exhibition ‘Everything and Nothing’ - Haaretz

Dec 14, 2014 Naomi Zeveloff, I spent 18 hours in Tel Aviv’s bus station - The Forward

Dec 7, 2914 Ben Caspit, Interview with Yuval Caspi and me (from 7:08) - Special T.V. show about the freemasons in Israel, Channel 1

Aug 6, 2014 Eitan Buganim on ‘format’, the art show I curated - Haaretz

June 19, 2014 Radio interview on World Sauntering Day - TLV1.FM

May 23, 2014 Judith Wipfler on the Central bus station, following my tour (German)

Jan 31, 2014  Debra Kamin on the Central bus station - Times of Israel

Nov 14, 2013 Hagit Peleg-Rotem on ‘Metropolis’ - Globes

Nov 11, 2013 Yoav Lerman on ‘Metropolis’ urban art project - tlv1

Nov 7, 2013 Yuval Saar interviews Karni Barzilai and Eran Eizenhamer on Metropolis - Protfolio magazine

Oct 31, 2013 Daniel Estrin joins me on a Tel Aviv New Central Bus Station tour - Public Radio International (PRI) (audio)

Sep 24, 2013 Simone Wilson on my central bus station tour

Jun 26, 2013 Yonatan Gat on Central Bus Station scavenger hunt - Ynet

May 4, 2012 Noam Dvir on my Freemasons TLV conspiracy tour - Haaretz

May 29, 2012 Karin Kloosterman joined my art tour to Kiryat Hamelacha in Tel Aviv - Israel21c

March 13, 2012 Naama Riba on my Newe Shaanan tour - Xnet

Sep 21, 2010 Noa Kushrak on New City Project at the Bat-Yam Biennale - Haaretz

Aug 30, 2010 Naama Riba on New City Project - Archiblender

Dec 6, 2007 Michal Viletzky interviews me about my art - Walla! 

MFA from Haifa University, Israel, 2015
B.Ed.FA from Hamidrasha, Beit Berl college, Israel, 2011

United Nations Ambassador to the Public, 2019

Group facilitator two year training, 2002

Contemporary Art

Architecture

New York History 

Journalism

International Relations