 Hi friends and subscribers a very warm welcome back to my youtube channel Daniel Rosalie here bringing you another video today from Jerusalem today I want to talk about a pretty obscure product as I like to do on this youtube channel from time to time and that is Custom earplugs now, maybe they're not that obscure and I just heard about these really late in the day But I've just got two pairs of custom earplugs made up from different places in Israel I wanted to put up a video Telling people or showing people Where you can get these in this country. So if you're looking for custom earplugs and you're in Israel You've landed on the right video. So firstly, let me just talk about what custom earplugs are And if you just want to hear about the suppliers, I'll add timestamps to this video So feel free to just jump ahead To the section where I talk about both shop safe purchases from Custom earplugs as the name suggests are basically fully customized earplugs So apparently our ear canals are totally unique munches our fingerprints are totally unique So when you buy off-the-shelf earplugs, I've always found earplugs really Uncomfortable to wear and I've never really been able to tolerate them and that's because you know off-the-shelf earplugs Firstly, they're they're not they're they can't really fit your ear because they don't really fit anybody's ear exactly They're just one one size fits all And as well as that, you know a big issue with them is they're either single use or you can use them like up to Four times so you have to keep buying more and more of these low-quality earplugs I'm I personally have been a big earplug user or Dealing using earplugs is one of my things because I have something called noise sensitivity or sound sensitivity Which basically means in simple terms that I have a hard time Filtering out noise when I'm trying to focus of I'm trying to work on let's say a script for a YouTube video or doing my day job And I am working on something and there was let's say a noisy conversation going on next to me or You know cards revving up and honking their horn Horns I would find that very distracting the diagnosis that I've got is called sensory processing disorder or SPD And this is something that's very commonly seen as well in autism ADHD and different forms of neurodivergence So a lot of those folks if you have that you might be able to understand Exactly what I'm talking about if your brain filters out these noises that mine can't be thankful that your brain filters out those noises So basically custom-made earplugs that's what they are. That's what they're used for. I got two pairs So the first one is from ha ozen in Jerusalem and I'll bring up their website over here momentarily this is ha ozen in Jerusalem and This is the making process. So basically the this is generally done in an audiology clinic So this isn't it like an exclusive or I should say a comprehensive list of everywhere in Jerusalem doing these Things just the ones because I live in Jerusalem. This is my local audiology clinic And ear protect are like kind of the national specialists They really like specialize in this super unique product, which is pretty great because it means they have an awful lot of experience Making these so firstly ha ozen in Jerusalem This is my these are the first ones that I got and I got ones for both sleep and day to day use Now the process for making these is a little bit weird Basically, it's the same as they use for custom in-ear monitors custom IEM. So if you're a musician Professional musician probably you might have heard about these otherwise. That's also jargon but basically they pour some kind of putty like substance into your ears or they inject it and It looks weird I'll put up a video that I found on YouTube because I didn't think to record my own molding process But it's not painful at all They just it just feels like you're underwater and your ears are clogged basically and then that mold like hardens for About five minutes and they just the audiologist will just poke around to this They'll also ask you a couple of questions to ascertain why you want the Why you want the earplugs because they might choose like a slightly different material I was also able to choose the the color. So these are the ones That I got done up in how ozen and I went for kind of a skin color, which I thought would make them Less sort of obvious, but they don't quite match my skin. So they still look kind of like I'm wearing a hearing aid But whatever they are amazing. I love them And the maintenance is basically that you can use these Indefinitely so the woman at the clinic told me that she's had her pair for 12 years now The cost of custom earplugs is quite expensive Relatively speaking and I paid 600 shekels For each pair. So basically that's like a hundred and fifty dollars But compared to some of the prices I saw from from at audiology places in the US That was actually like a relatively good deal now 150 bucks might sound like a lot But think about that if you're spending two dollars a day on 3m earplugs and you use them literally every day It's going to be actually in the long run cheaper just to have one pair that's intended for indefinite use so you can just use these basically indefinitely and Maintenance is cleaning them with water. I do it once a day I think that's prudent if you're not using them every day perhaps less regularly But if they look dirty obviously just kind of get a bit of soap and water and they have a color code and red is for your right ear and Blue is for your left ear. So that's a Ozen and Jerusalem the Molding firstly they take the molds and then they ship that off to a laboratory and using some really cool like 3d Modeling technology, they will then produce them and send them back. The whole process for me took like probably I'm gonna say three weeks But this was also after the outbreak of war here in Israel So that might be like slightly slower and they were work there. They are working at irregular hours Slightly that's normal hours now the second one. I'll just jump back to my screen here Ear protect as I said these guys are really like the sort of national Specialists in this and as far as I know they actually supply the IDF which I thought was pretty cool They supply the army because ear protection is really important obviously for people Who need to discharge firearms? So this is the one that I got negate raash mazik, which means in English Against annoying noise and they claim to have that these ones have a noise reduction ratio of 30 to 35 decibels Which is really about as good as you'll see on any type of earplugs And I think that's pretty much as good as noise attenuation as you guess in earplugs They also make different ones specifically for sleep that are a bit less and noise reducing 25 decibels underwater ones as well as one specifically for ADHD and misophonia ones for musicians ones for pilots tyasim ones for in flight and ones for Motorcyclists so really they have an incredible range of materials and different types of earplugs These guys are located in natanya But they operate a molding clinic in ram at gun just just a few minutes from Savvy door train station So I had to go in to get them for my fitting and then they then they came So these ones are a little bit different than these are the ones from Jerusalem from ha ozen and these are the ones from From Tel Aviv from ear protect. They're roughly the same size and they're both really comfortable But I basically have become so dependent on these I'm using them literally every single day since I got them that I'm like I really want to have a spare pair because I can totally see Although they give you a carry case, you know human nature is it would be pretty easy to misplace them So I have a spare especially as the making process takes a few weeks. I thought that was important So yeah, these are the custom earplug options that are out there in Israel I can highly recommend both ha ozen and ear protect I can't really say one was necessarily better than the other but ear protect are really into customer service And they're very responsive on WhatsApp and they'll give you really good attentive sale advice ha ozen were great as well So really they were both pretty great to deal with and 600 shackles if like me You work from home in a noisy urban environment and you're there's a lot of construction noise going on There's loud neighbors and you just want something that will really block out the noise I think the 600 shackles when your sanity is on the line is a great investment and just remember that you're gonna have these four potentially your whole life and As I said, if you're using earplugs frequently at the costs are gonna just basically, you know These are gonna probably come out ahead at some point. That's a video don't don't want to make it overly long Custom earplugs in Israel. You've never heard about them. You've heard about them now As a long-term noise sensitive person I wish I'd known about these and bought them like 10 or 10 or 15 years earlier But better late than never and they're really awesome Thanks for watching guys And if you want to get more videos about stuff to do with living in Israel, then please consider subscribing to this YouTube channel