Background
Was born in 1986 in Moshav Nahalal an agricultural community in northern Israel.
Was born in 1986 in Moshav Nahalal an agricultural community in northern Israel.
His various projects have been well received on the web. Kafri co-created with Niv Majar the web series “Nitza Ve’Lechem” (ניצה ולחם). He released musical projects including the web hit “Mayokero”.
Kafri also starred in a mini-series “Bekitzur” as part of the 10th season of the Israeli show “Eretz Nehderet”.
During Kafri’s mandatory military service he served as a military photographer in the intelligence corporations His first viral video was shot during his service- “Chole Ba’rosh” (sick in the head).
The video released in 2007 received over 50,000 times and was Kafri’s first internet success. Gal Raz, one of the founders of the Flix web site saw the video and hired Kafri as a video editors
On the job Kafri met Niv Majar and the two started shooting sketches under the name “Nitza Ve’Lechem”, the show gathered a cult following online and the two we’re called “The godfathers of Israeli web comedy” by Time Out Tel Aviv.
The show had guest appearances from author Meir Shalev,Comedians Assi Cohen and Tal Friedman, singer Shimi Tavori and others While working at Flix Kafri also created the hit web series- “Gatonovala” a cat soap opera, with millions of views for its 30 or so episodes. In 2012 Kafri collaborated with director Vania Heymann for the first time.
The two created a Pepsi Max ad starring Kafri.
The two went on to create a music video for “Yes I did approach Ido” a song from Kafri’s music project “Porch songs” with comedian Tal Tirangel. The two also co-directed an ad starring Israeli super model Bar Refaelithis video also receiving well over half a million views.
During 2013 Israeli show “Eretz Nehedert” aired a mini-series called “Bekitzur” starring Kafri, and co-created by him and Heymann. The show was an adaptation of the French Format “Bref”.
The mini-series is composed of thirteen 2 minute episodes.
In 2014 Kafri released “Mayokero” a track from his online album- “Acowpella Beatbox”, the track was accompanied by a video created by Vania Heymann. The track and video we’re mentioned in major media outlets including Rolling Stone Magazine. His Honeymoon video “8 Honeymoon Moments” was also viewed over 100k times.
Kafri lives in New York and continues to create video content and music
Web 2007-2015 “Nitza Ve’lechem” 2011- "Catonovela" Commercials 2010- Egged Business CompanyInteractive web game 2012- Pepsi Max BeatBox 2012- MyCheck foot Bar Refali 2013- Get out the vote video 2013- Yevvo 2016- Coca Cola & Marvel Superball Commercial (Interactive Version).