Born in 1946 or 1947,[1] Nissim Kahlon is a Jewish man who is the divorced father of three children.
[2] He lived in a tent in Herzliya beach in 1973[3] before creating a cave-house on Sidna Ali Beach[4] in Apollonia National Park since 1974, Kahlon was ordered to leave by the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection.
[5][1] According to Kahlon, the Ministry claim his house is dangerous to the stability of the cliff into which it is built.
[6] It is constructed using discarded materials such as local rock, tile, ceramic and glass.
[5] Kahlon was the subject of the documentary Appollonian Story,[7] directed by Ilan Moskovitch and Dan Bronfeld.