Ilan Garibi

Ilan Garibi was born in 1965 in Hadera

Ilan Garibi was born in 1965 in Hadera, where he grew up. He was the second of five children of Shula and Salman Garibi. He is married to Sigal and has three children.

He began folding origami as a child, teaching himself in sixth grade from Robert Harbin's book Origami 1. He joined the IDF in 1983 and served as an intelligence officer until 2009.

In 2006 he joined the Israeli Origami Center and in 2008 began creating original models. After leaving the army he taught origami-based thinking to gifted students in Hadera. Since 2011 he has been an editor of The Fold, the online magazine of OrigamiUSA.

In 2012 he co-founded the Israeli origami artists' organization, later named Origamisrael, and became its chairman. From 2010 he moved into design, creating lamps, vases, tiles and furniture, and from 2012 folding laser-cut stainless steel. In 2014 he began making jewelry.

Since 2013 he has taught in the Interior Design and Industrial Design departments at Holon Institute of Technology. In 2017 he founded the Convention for Creators for origami artists.