The university lawns used to be the best place to find love, and students would choose the faculties also based on the chance to leave with a ring.
A lot of things have changed since then, some of the courses are even online, and most of the dating effort is on social networks - and still, there are students who have found love face-to-face.
Hillel Bir Cohen (24) and Tanel Cohen (23), third-year politics and communication students at Hadassah College in Jerusalem, meet in the morning at school and in the evening at home.
They are a married couple who met in school, and as expected these days - their relationship started virtual and became tangible.
"At the beginning of school in October 2020, there was a Zoom meeting, Matanal spoke, and his photo popped up. I immediately tagged him. I told myself that at most he wouldn't want to and we wouldn't meet in school either, so there's no bullshit," laughs Hillel.
"We started corresponding during the lessons, and I suggested that he come to my place to study together. In a cool response, he said that it was impossible to meet because of the corona virus, but we became friends."
The conversations turned into dates.
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Weeks passed, the morbidity decreased, and together with other classmates they held a student meeting.
"A month after school, I saw her for the first time in real life," says Matanal, "but I still didn't see things in a couple prism. We became good friends for school.
"Throughout the whole period, Hillel made many romantic gestures to me, but I didn't know how to read them. Towards the end of the semester, we started talking more, and I came to the decision that I wanted to give it a chance. We met at my apartment and the excuse was that it was to study for a test, but just when I wanted us to be alone, my partner came and sat down with us in the room...".
In the end it happened.
Hillel and Matanel got into a relationship, three months later they got engaged and got married last October.
He says he didn't think he would find love, but his wife admits: "I came to school with the goal of finding a groom. People nowadays use apps because it's much easier than face-to-face, but it destroys the romance."
higher chance
Yoni Avner, CEO of "Konfi Media", manages several communities for young people on the Internet. One of them, "Konfi-Studentim", has tens of thousands of members. ".
What do you think is the reason?
"A combination of a more romantic feeling than a 'cold' acquaintance through a screen, and of a higher chance of meeting people with a common denominator, similar background and interests. We receive dozens of requests for help in searching for people on campus. A student can see someone he likes in the library, and immediately send We have a description of her with a request for help finding her.
"Single men and women come to our story especially for the opportunity to meet and connect with other followers, who are studying a similar degree at a parallel academic institution or another degree at the same institution."
Relationship degree
Shani Gal-Or (24) and Shalo Haik (26) met Shanker eight months ago (they count from the first date), when they shared a physics course together.
Shani: "When the studies went back to being face-to-face, we would pass each other quite a lot, every week. He would leave class, and I would just arrive. That's how we noticed each other. It started with a short conversation. He was a year above me, and I thought he could give me tips And help me with courses he's already taken."
Romantic gestures on the way to the roof.
Hillel and Matanel, photo: Yohai Smet
Small talk turned into dates, and if you ask Shani - "We both started with each other".
Neither of them planned to find a partner in Shankar.
"Dating with love or a relationship were not my goals in my studies," Shani points out, "I set a goal to finish my degree and take care of a relationship later, but I was pleasantly surprised."
Shalev concludes: "For a long time I was on dating sites and I couldn't really connect, I didn't find anyone. On the other hand, most of my friends who are in a relationship today didn't meet at all during the degree. It actually worked out for me: I left the degree since then - but I stayed with my partner." .
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