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סדנת חשיפה לריתוך
בסדנה נכיר את העקרונות הבסיסיים של תחום הריתוך, נתנסה בעבודה עם כלי העבודה השונים, נחשף לסוגי הריתוך השונים ותצברו ידע שיסייע לכם להבין את התהליך ואת טכניקות העבודה הנדרשות.
עלות: 240 ש"ח למבוגר/ת. לתושבי יהוד-מונוסון: 190 ש"ח למבוגר/ת.
שימו לב: לא מספיק להרשם פה, יש להרשם גם בקישור הבא
[https://www.makelab.org.il/registration/welding](https://www.makelab.org.il/registration/welding)
HackaTAMI
**TAMI Hacking Nights**
\- join TAMI CTF team and practice challenges and CTFs with us
\- share your knowledge about ethical hacking techniques and tools
\- bring some device to reverse engineer it and explore how it works
\- propose a bug bounty program to work on together
\- just watch and learn from others
The meetings are informal and open to all levels - from total beginners to hardcore CTF veterans. Join our HackaTAMI Telegram channel ([https://t.me/+KAXY_iPcPlpmZTRk](https://t.me/+KAXY_iPcPlpmZTRk)) to discuss what we will do this Tuesday and come to TAMI.
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TAMI wiki: [https://telavivmakers.org](https://telavivmakers.org)
TAMI main Telegram channel: [https://t.me/+0t5M0-jK9iIwZmM8](https://t.me/+0t5M0-jK9iIwZmM8)
ChessBar Israel Chess @Masaryk Wine & Flowers #Tuesdays
## Details
Hi everyone,
⚠️ You need to join the Whatssapp community and get a confirmation on WhatssApp that there are still spots available in order to be able to attend.
You can join the chess community here by filling the form:
https://chessbarisrael.com/#join-us
The next edition tournament will take place on **Tuesday.**
📍 **Where:** Masaryk Wine & Flowers, **80 King George St, Tel Aviv**
📅 **When:** 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
♟️ **Format:** 5 rounds of 8+2 (Rapid) OR Meet & Play (depends on which Tuesday)
🥇 **Prizes:**
* **Top Winners:** bottles of wine
* **Best Under 1500/800:** 1 hour of private chess lesson
* **Sandwich for a randomly picked player**
✨ **How does it work?**
This is a friendly, unofficial event (not reported to FIDE) and part of a **bi-weekly series of tournaments** held in bars around Tel Aviv.
⚠️ There is an entrance fee for the event including the first free drink and prizes!
**Spots are limited!**
⚠️ You need to join the Whatssapp community and get a confirmation on WhatssApp that there are still spots available in order to be able to attend.
Olivier 🎉
Alternative School Events This Week
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TAMI Sonic (Music Night)
**TAMI Sonic (Music Night)**
Join our bi-weekly informal meetups devoted to playing and experimenting with sound.
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TAMI wiki: [https://telavivmakers.org](https://telavivmakers.org)
TAMI main Telegram channel: [https://t.me/+0t5M0-jK9iIwZmM8](https://t.me/+0t5M0-jK9iIwZmM8)
מפגש חברים ב'המפעל' בירושלים
סתם מפגש של חברי קהילת מעקף לדבר על מה שבא לנו.
אין אג'נדה פשוט יושבים ביחד ומפטפטים.
Philosophy Group Meeting -- English
Join us in the search for the true, the good and the beautiful.
We will be reading and discussing a fascinating philosophical text in English.
Welcome anyone interested in understanding life more deeply, regardless of age or prior knowledge. The love of wisdom is enough.
Please join our WhatsApp group:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/CDjIJ8i1LZsJ2a7WJXFxhG?mode=wwt
Sapere Aude! (Kant's Motto: Dare to Think!)
Philosophy Group Meeting -- Hebrew
Join us in the search for the true, the good and the beautiful.
Each meet is in one of two formats: a shared reading and open discussion of philosophical texts, or a continuing series of lectures based on the reading of a fascinating book of philosophy. Both formats are in Hebrew, with some reading of English texts, assisted whenever needed.
We meet weekly Friday on 80 Rokach Boulevard, Tel Aviv, at the gardens of the Council for a Beautiful Israel.
Welcome anyone interested in understanding life more deeply, regardless of age or prior knowledge. The love of wisdom is enough.
Please join our WhatsApp group:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/JeAa2uRNTlF0rdrVTLzUC0?mode=wwt
Note: there's always enough sitting room, but some of it is on the grass or a mat on the floor. If you want to guarantee yourself a chair, please bring one with you.
Sapere Aude! (Kant's Motto: Dare to Think!)
AI OR DIE
**AI OR DIE**
**Product Design Meetup @Torq**
📅 June 10, 2026
📍 Torq Offices - 10th Floor (HaMelacha St 3, Tel Aviv-Yafo)
🌐 [https://torq.io/](https://torq.io/)
We’re very excited to invite you to our meetup on June 10 at the Torq offices.
Of course we’ll talk about AI - but the real focus is on you: how product designers continue to lead in the age of AI.
We’ll talk about how to create agents that work like teammates and help us move faster, without compromising on quality, depth, or craft.
We’ll share real examples of scalable ways of working with AI, and practical tools we’ve built and integrated into our day-to-day design process.
And of course, we’ll dive into user experience in the age of AI:
how intentional friction creates better outcomes as AI experiences become more seamless and invisible, how overconfidence in AI outputs changes user behavior, and how design interventions help users make better decisions.
20–30 minutes per talk.
Practical, short, no fluff.
**Agenda:**
**18:00 - Mingling**
Beers & Pizza 🍕
**18:30 - Opening**
Torq intro
**18:55 - Session #1**
**Moishy Neulander (Torq)**
Turning AI prototypes into reusable design assets:
Changing the way product teams collaborate, prototype, and build with AI.
**19:15 - Session #2**
**Hanni Buskila (UXTRA)**
How agents became my research team:
How AI agents can turn research into real design foundations - from research insights to final UI - and what separates real force multipliers from hype.
**19:35 - Break ️☕️**
**19:50 - Session #3**
**Noa Sabar Dvoskin (Ex-Amazon)**
Friction by design:
What happens when systems optimize without understanding user intent, and how intentional friction gives users back control at the moments that count.
**20:10 - Session #4**
**Adi Livne ([monday.com](http://monday.com))**
Designing for AI:
Practical design principles for building clear, useful, and responsible AI experiences.
**20:30 - Q&A + Closing**
Come for the AI, stay for the people ✨
**Important:**
RSVP does not guarantee entry.
Due to limited office capacity, attendance is curated and subject to organizer approval.
Approved attendees will receive a confirmation message before the event.
Please make sure your Meetup profile includes your full name, role, and company.
PyData Tel Aviv @ Melio
**Join Us for PyData Meetup @ Melio!**
Get ready for insightful sessions, networking with the PyData community, and, of course, pizza and beer!
A big thanks to **Melio** for hosting us and supporting the community.
**📅 Details**
Date: Sunday, June 14th, 2026
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Location: Melio Office, Hagag Towers, North Tower, Floor 32, HaArba’a St 28, Tel Aviv
Language: This meetup will be held in Hebrew
**🕒 Agenda**
18:00: Gathering, snacks, and drinks 🍕🍻
18:30: Welcome words
18:45: **A Match Made in Heaven: LLM Judgment at Vector-Search Speed,** Shon Mendelson, Staff AI Scientist @ Intuit
19:15: **Dr. Data: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI Bomb**, Dr. Adi Sarid, CEO @ Sarid Research
19:45: **Cost-Efficient AI Systems in Practice,** Michael Levinger, Senior AI Engineer @ Melio
**🎤 Featured Sessions**
**A Match Made in Heaven: LLM Judgment at Vector-Search Speed**
**Speaker: Shon Mendelson, Staff AI Scientist @ Intuit**
Last year, I spent far too long chasing a stubborn data quirk: why our system couldn't see that “The Law Offices of John Miller” and “Miller, John S. PLLC” were the same entity. It led to a bigger question: can you achieve LLM-level judgment at vector-search speeds? Traditional vector search is fast, but often misses subtle context like this, while relying entirely on LLMs is too slow and costly for production at scale.
In this talk, I’ll share how we bridged that gap at Intuit with a hybrid system that combines fast vector search, efficient small transformer-based models, and fine-tuned SLMs. The result is a system capable of handling millions of weekly entity comparisons, significantly boosting recall while maintaining precision levels comparable to traditional methods.
**Dr. Data: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI Bomb**
**Speaker: Dr. Adi Sarid, CEO @ Sarid Research**
When GenAI dropped, our quant market research agency had a beautifully naive thought: "We can finally replace all our human labelers with a simple API call!" Spoiler alert: Scaling AI without hallucinations isn't quite that simple.
Join us for a brutally honest, technical look at our data science team's journey from prompt-panic to AI-powered productivity. We’ll share our biggest wins and hardest lessons regarding evaluation frameworks, the rapid obsolescence of custom packages, and the newfound "full-stack audacity" of modern data scientists.
**Cost-Efficient AI Systems in Practice**
**Speaker: Michael Levinger, Senior AI Engineer @ Melio**
Deploying large language models and AI agents in real-world systems requires a constant trade-off between cost, latency, and performance. This talk explores how to optimize LLM- and agent-based systems using techniques such as caching, model routing/cascades, tuning, RAG, and distillation—significantly reducing costs without sacrificing quality. Through a case study of an ATO-agent system, we’ll also cover practical approaches to cost estimation, monitoring, and budgeting.
In addition, we’ll compare leading industry models—such as Gemini, Claude, and GPT—focusing on differences in response speed, cost efficiency, and real-world performance, and how to choose the right model for each use case within broader agentic workflows.
**🚀 RSVP**
Space is limited – RSVP now to secure your spot!
We look forward to seeing you there!
**📍 How to find us:**
Enter the North Tower in Hagag Towers (Ha'Arbaa 28), go up to floor 32, and find us there.
**We highly recommend using public transport, but if you’re coming by car, [here is a list of nearby parking lots](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15GIvUZWui78k4b0EyikjvzNMnDede4lY/edit?gid=751370004#gid=751370004).**
Founders Running Club :: Tel Aviv
**Founders Running Club** (FRC) brings founders, investors, tech, creative people and startup enthusiasts together for weekly easy runs and networking. We like to be comfortable when we run and finish with coffee and conversations. Choose your pace or follow a pacer—pets, friends, family, are welcome.
Join locall Tel-Aviv chat with all news and updates https://chat.whatsapp.com/IWWgu9DznjzLvMe8p6cVCu?mode=ac_t
For any questions pleae contact Tel-Aviv city leaders:
Lev +972 55-7704496
Ilia +972535007183
Nastya +972533838320
Dan +972537162316
More about FRC global:
🗓️ Launched in San Francisco, July 16, 2022
🌍 Now in 35+ cities
📅 Running + Networking events + Community
**Join the community** [http://foundersrc.com/chats](http://foundersrc.com/chats)
**Stay updated**:
Instagram [http://instagram.com/foundersrc/](http://instagram.com/foundersrc/)
LinkedIn [http://linkedin.com/company/foundersrc/](http://linkedin.com/company/foundersrc/)
Podcast [http://podcast.foundersrc.com/](http://podcast.foundersrc.com/)
Strava [http://strava.com/clubs/foundersRC](http://strava.com/clubs/foundersRC)
Website [http://foundersrc.com/](http://foundersrc.com/)
Alternative School Events Near You
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Discover Inner Engineering in Columbus
Discover Inner Engineering in Columbus!
Saturday June 13th
Choose a location & Time:
Holiday Inn Express : 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Rangoli -The Indian Mall: 7:00 PM -8:00 PM
[RSVP](https://innerengineering.sadhguru.org/columbus?fbclid=IwdGRzaASVdldjbGNrBJV2TmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHmTH5dVmwyksT8x39dKxCZZPJm96hYF7q4m6CmzfjsgJ14o3X4jux71er_mq_aem_W51vRnuLMzlDtxYJWPuqKg&sfnsn=wa)
(Dresden Sister City) Stammtisch
### Hofbräuhaus Columbus
Dresden Stammtisch is a monthly social gathering for members and friends of Dresden Sister City, Inc. The event is free and open to the public. We speak German or English - it is largely up to you!
BeComing Circle Initiates
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Instructor - Crow, HPS
Class fee is $30 at the door or approved exchange
RSVP with Advance pay of $25 (discounted) by PayPal on the web or by contacting Enchanted Elements (614) 437-2642.
Reservations made directly to Enchanted Elements will be added to the class list manually not online.
Private Instruction ~ Closed to the Public ~ Initiated Members Only
Please come prepared for ritual.
Blessings ~ Crow
The Alliance All-Voices Chorus Open Rehearsal
The Alliance is part of the Greater Central Ohio Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society. We are an all-voices chorus dedicated to providing an inclusive environment for all those who love to sing, regardless of their race, gender identity, sexual orientation or musical background. The Alliance is the first and only all-voices barbershop chorus in Central Ohio.
**Who:** Anyone with a passion for singing at a high level. Previous barbershop chorus/quartet experience not required.
**When:** The Alliance rehearses weekly on Thursdays from 7pm-10pm.
**Where:** Lord Of Life Lutheran Church: 2480 W Dublin Granville Rd, Columbus, OH 43235
To become a full member of The Alliance, we welcome you to start by visiting us for a few rehearsals to experience the group and sing with us! Then, you may begin the 2-part audition process for membership: the assessement, and audition. We strive to make our auditions as stress-free as possible to help you let your best singing self shine.
Free Introduction to Inner Engineering in Columbus
Discover Inner Engineering in Columbus!
Saturday June 13th
Choose a location & Time:
Holiday Inn Express : 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Rangoli -The Indian Mall: 7:00 PM -8:00 PM
[RSVP](https://innerengineering.sadhguru.org/columbus?fbclid=IwdGRzaASVdldjbGNrBJV2TmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHmTH5dVmwyksT8x39dKxCZZPJm96hYF7q4m6CmzfjsgJ14o3X4jux71er_mq_aem_W51vRnuLMzlDtxYJWPuqKg&sfnsn=wa)
Art Night - Bring Your Own Work
Welcome to the Art School - 20's & 30's artists Meetup group! This is a community for young artists who are passionate about exploring different mediums and techniques in the world of art. Whether you're a painter, sculptor, photographer, or mixed media artist, this group is the perfect place to connect with like-minded individuals, have a space to work on your craft, and showcase your work. Let's inspire and support each other on our artistic journeys! Whether you're a novice or a seasoned artist, all skill levels are welcome. Join us and unleash your creativity!
Afterwards, we will have time to work on our individual art projects, hang out, and if anyone is interested in feedback on their work, there will be time for that as well.
Sunday Brunch
Sleep in on Sundays. When you've had your fill of pajama-time, roll out and have some tasty brunch with your fellow Humanists!















