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Ram Barkai
Ram Barkai was born in 1957 in a little Kibbutz by the Sea of Galilee, Israel to Ruth and Meyer from Romania. Ram left high school in 1974 to explore social working in north Israel...ver maisRam Barkai was born in 1957 in a little Kibbutz by the Sea of Galilee, Israel to Ruth and Meyer from Romania. Ram left high school in 1974 to explore social working in north Israel before he joined the army in 1985. Ram spent five years in the army and left in 1980 to travel and study. He was discharged as a Major. Ram enrolled in the Science university in Haifa to study computer science with strong flavour of math. In 1987 Ram left Israel to Japan to work in computers and later on in finance. Ram came back to South Africa in 1996 to settle down and build a home with his first wife. He joined a small financial services company and became the CEO at 2005. Ram retired in 2012 to pursue his real passion of Ice Swimming, which he founded in 2009. Ram completed many swims around the world, from the Arctic, Antarctica, Dead Sea, Cape Point, Cape Horn, Siberia, Alaska, Patagonia, Australia, Murmansk, Finland, Norway, Yellow River China, Sea of Galilee and many more in frozen Europe, England, Ireland & Scotland.
All records are available on https://www.openwaterpedia.com/wiki/Ram_Barkai and in https://longswims.com/p/ram-barkai/. Ram holds five Guinness World Records, and many Ice-Swimming records and has been inducted to Ice Swimming Hall of Fame as a Swimmer and an Administrator. Ram completed 11 Ice Miles around the world and 17 Ice Km as well as many shorter ice swims. Ram is a father to four children whom he calls my fantastic four. Ram lives with Sam wonder-woman his partner in Cape Town.ver menos