21,704 reasons to leave the house

Bonire.live is a website that brings together all cultural events in Israel: from secret desert raves and concerts in tiny clubs to documentary film festivals and contemporary dance.

The events are gathered by specially trained bots. They read websites and social media, extract information about the time, location, and artists, merge duplicates, identify genres and key performers, write summaries, and translate them into the main languages.

(However, while automation handles most of the heavy lifting, each parser is set up manually, and errors still have to be checked by humans. We don’t pretend that everything is done solely by a machine.)

We are an independent project that is always on the user’s side, and our mission is to help you choose what truly resonates with you. We don’t sell tickets; we only collect information on where you can buy them. If an event is listed across multiple platforms, we compare prices and highlight the best deals.

We don’t pretend to be experts on Israeli culture. Instead, we keep an eye on what critics write, note which events they highlight, and make sure to feature those.

Bonire.live was launched in the spring of 2026 by Maksim Balabin and Daniel Lurie. We met in the early 2000s when we both worked at Afisha Industries, a Moscow publishing house that produced Russia’s leading magazines and guidebooks on culture, entertainment, and travel. Maksim was the art director of Afisha magazine, and Daniel was the director of Afisha.ru.

A lifetime has passed since then, and in 2022 we both ended up in Israel. We are no strangers to programming, and when Claude Code came out, we realized we wanted to use it to build something useful and interesting — for ourselves and for others. For us, it’s a way to explore both the new world of AI and our new country.

We couldn’t find an equivalent to Afisha in Israel — only fragmented listings for individual genres and endless ticket vendors. With Bonire.live, we want to fill that gap.

As of today, our database includes 4,228 concerts from classical to noise, 467 dance parties and secret raves, 5,822 film screenings, 890 exhibitions, 6,526 musical and theater performances across 314 cities in Israel.