Garik Korogodsky in Israel: an original stand-up by the Ukrainian blogger and businessman in May 2026 - Tel Aviv (28), Haifa (31), Ashdod (29) - NAnews

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Writer, bestselling author, philanthropist, and flamboyant Ukrainian businessman takes the stage with an original stand-up that is hard to fit into the genre’s framework. At the end of May 2026, Garik Korogodsky will take the stage in Israel for the first time with a program that organizers call ‘Non-classical Stand-Up – Prolonged Jump.’ The tour schedule includes three cities: May 28, Thursday, 20:00 — Tel Aviv, May 29, Friday, 20:00 — Ashdod, May 31, Sunday, 20:00 — Haifa.

This is not a classic comedian tour with a set of safe jokes, but an original 18+ evening where laughter, harsh frankness, and topics usually avoided on stage without a filter are promised in advance.

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What is this concert and why do organizers immediately warn: this is not an ordinary stand-up

Garik Korogodsky in Israel: original stand-up of the Ukrainian blogger and businessman in May 2026 – Tel Aviv (28), Haifa (31), Ashdod (29)

The poster itself is designed so that the viewer has no false expectations. The show page clearly states: this is not classic stand-up. There will be talk about sex, money, swearing, God, fears, complexes, and relationships; without prohibitions, without censorship, and without falsehood. Organizers emphasize separately that this is not just about provocation for the sake of noise, but about a ‘conversation about love’ — through irony, through uncomfortable confessions, and through absolute honesty.

This seems to be where the entire dramaturgy of the evening is built. Korogodsky is presented not as a stand-up comedian in the usual club sense, but as a person who brings his own biography, his manner of speaking, and his big business experience to the stage. The poster promises a combination of humor, self-irony, life experience, and very personal stories. It is specifically noted that the audience in the front rows will receive a ‘special surprise,’ meaning this is also a format with minimal distance between the hall and the stage.

For the Israeli audience, this is an important detail. Such evenings are usually attended not only ‘for the name’ but also for the intonation. In this case, the organizers are selling precisely the intonation: direct, sometimes rough, occasionally painful, but without careful packaging. Therefore, the 18+ restriction here does not look like a formality, but an honest warning: the program includes foul language and frank jokes, and the show will last 1 hour 30 minutes.

When and where the tour will take place in Israel

Tel Aviv

The first evening of the tour is scheduled for May 28, 2026 in Tel Aviv. The concert will start at 20:00 and will be held at the Center for Music and Performing Arts at 10 Sheerit Israel St., opposite the eighth gates of Bloomfield Stadium.

Ashdod

The next day, May 29, 2026, Korogodsky will perform in Ashdod. The start is also at 20:00, the venue is Matnas Duna-Yud, 90 Keren Kayemet Le-Israel St..

Haifa

The final concert of the tour is scheduled for May 31, 2026 in Haifa. The evening will take place in the ‘Rappoport’ Hall on 138 Ha-Nasi Ave., starting at 20:00.

18+ (contains foul language and frank jokes)
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

From a practical point of view, the poster is simple: three cities, evening time, adult format, and a clear price range. But in this case, the poster reads broader than a usual tour announcement because Korogodsky is not only a stage character but also a notable figure in Ukrainian public life.

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Who is Garik Korogodsky

https://www.youtube.com/@garikkorogodskyi

https://www.facebook.com/garik.korogodskiy/

https://www.instagram.com/garikkorogodski/

Ukrainian media describe Korogodsky as a businessman, philanthropist, blogger, and co-founder of the ‘Zhiznelyub’ charity fund. Focus writes that after the oil business, he moved into commercial real estate and also associates his name with the Dream Town shopping center in Kyiv. It also highlights his recognizable public style: provocative behavior, bright clothing, colorful glasses, and a deliberately uncomfortable manner of speaking.

This is important for understanding his Israeli tour. The stage is not taken by a person from the standard comedy industry, but by an entrepreneur and media figure who has long turned his own sharpness into part of the public genre. Focus also notes that Korogodsky is currently performing solo sit-downs in Kyiv, and his Instagram bio is attached to a fundraiser for a medical company, which has already raised almost 200,000 hryvnias. Thus, the image of the ‘flamboyant businessman’ has long been accompanied by a volunteer and charitable agenda.

After 2022

After the start of the full-scale war, his fund did not remain in its previous format. Focus writes that the ‘Zhiznelyub’ fund, created by Korogodsky and Tina Mikhailovskaya, which was initially focused on helping the elderly, became especially important during the great war through ‘Lunch without Trouble’ hot meal points. In addition, the ‘Zhiznelyub Cares’ support center for displaced persons has helped 15,000 people with IDP status since May 2022: with clothing, dishes, bedding, toys for children, pet food, as well as legal and psychological support; according to Focus, there is even an opportunity to get housing.

It is also mentioned that after February 24, 2022, some tenants of his shopping center were temporarily exempted from rent and maintenance fees. Korogodsky publicly stated: if someone still wants to pay, the entire amount will be transferred to the army. This is an important detail because it shows not only the work of the fund but also how he used his own business resources in the first months of the war.

In February 2025, in an interview with Channel 24, Korogodsky provided more specific figures on the work of ‘Zhiznelyub.’ According to him, the fund attracted and provided assistance worth 132 million 964 thousand hryvnias in 2024. In the same conversation, he talked about the ‘House Nearby’ project: the fund buys houses, mainly in the Kyiv region, holds a competition among IDP families, and transfers housing for use; at the time of the interview, according to him, about 10 houses had been bought, and 7 families were already living in them. These are his own words in the interview, not an external audit, and this is the most correct way to perceive them.

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NV adds another important detail to this picture. In the material about Korogodsky’s volunteer work, it is said that his volunteers swam across the Dnieper to deliver insulin to temporarily occupied territories. It is also reported that the ‘Obid bez Bid’ project has grown over ten years to 11 points in the city, 1500 lunches daily, and 2000 volunteers, and after the start of the great war, the fund itself grew three to four times thanks to donor trust and international support.

There are also separate confirmed episodes of targeted assistance. After the explosion of the Kakhovka HPP on June 8, 2023, Forbes wrote that Korogodsky, responding to the call to join the assistance to the victims, pledged to purchase necessary goods for 1 million UAH. In a quote for Forbes, he clarified that this million would be spent ‘exactly on humanitarian aid in the Kherson area.’

Why this poster in Israel looks more substantial than a regular concert announcement

Therefore, Korogodsky’s Israeli tour is not just another evening of humor. On one hand, the poster sells provocation, harsh frankness, and an adult conversation without censorship. On the other hand, a person takes the stage whom the Ukrainian audience knows as a developer, author, public provocateur, and co-founder of a fund that worked with the elderly, displaced persons, and humanitarian aid during the war.

That is why the tour in Tel Aviv, Ashdod, and Haifa is interesting not only because the poster says ‘for the first time in Israel.’ It is interesting because this stage appearance carries an entire biography: big business, flamboyance, loud publicity, charity, and war as a personal and public background. For some of the audience, it will be just a bold evening without censorship. For another part, it will be a meeting with a person who has long existed at the intersection of show, money, scandal, and real help to Ukraine.