Maayan is an educator and licensed Israel Tour Guide who has worked for the past 13 years with visitors from around the world, and has served as an educational emissary for the Jewish Agency in the United States and Australia. His tours, classes and workshops focus on history, narrative religion and politics.

Maayan’s work incorporates multi-narrative political tourism, as well as interfaith issues.
He has led thousands of tours, including programs for politicians and religious leaders from around the world. Additionally, Maayan serves as a guide regularly at the Jerusalem Press Club where he works with international journalists and journalism students from the USA.

Maayan received training as a guide at Yad Ben Zvi Institute, and also holds degrees in Special Education from Tel Chai College and Land of Israel studies from Herzog College.

When he is not guiding, Maayan teaches Jewish studies at Yad BeYad, the Jewish Arab bilingual school on Jerusalem.