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The house with the Palm Tree

April 23rd, 2009 | Comments Off

At number 8, at Nahalat Binyamin, you will find a beautiful building, designed in the ‘Art Nouveau’ style by the architect Y.Z. Tabachnik in 1922. The house, ‘Beit Hadekel’ (The House with the Palm Tree) is completely symmetrical, which one side curved and one side angular, with many Jewish motifs, including the ‘Star of David’ and the menorah-shaped balconies. Until it was stolen, a few years ago, the round window in the center contained a decorative green glass palm-tree. The house was build for Issar Cohen, a very religious man, who requested that no glass be put into one of the rectangular windows under de palm-tree, because in order to symbolize the destruction of the Temple, no building should be totally completed. Today, after many years of hard work, the building … Read entire article »

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The beaches of Tel Aviv

April 23rd, 2009 | 5 Comments

‘Banana Beach’: Next to the old Dolfinarium (near Yafo). An exellent view in all directions, small beach, lot’s of surfers, hunks and beautiful young ladies and families with children. ‘Chinky Beach/Drum Beach’: Come Friday, the late afternoon sees locals ushering in the weekend by watching the sunset over Chinky Beach and participating in the weekly drum circle. A cool sight for all ages, the drum circle features amateur musicians and random locals playing their percussion instruments, clapping in rhythm and dancing the beat. Once in a while ‘wild’ Salsa-dance parties…the Beach for the young and ex-Goa-goers. ‘Gordon Beach’: With its central location, opposite the Sheraton Hotel, Gordon Beach is one of Tel Aviv’s busiest. If your ideal beach includes crowded bodies, lots of music and a lounge chair to work on your tan, head to … Read entire article »

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Tel Aviv: what’s in a name

April 22nd, 2009 | 5 Comments

Minutes of a meeting of the Ahuzat Bayit Committee, early 1910: Dr.Hayyim Hisin: “I suggest that we call our new neighborhood Herzliya, in memory of Herzl” Abraham Gerson Hanoh: “But there is a chance that we will incur the wrath of the (Ottoman) authorities by naming it after Herzl” Arieh Akiva Weiss: “This is true. We have to find a name that the goverment will agree to. And let us not forget that we are only building a small neighborhood (sec:!!!), a part of the big city of Jaffa. I suggest the name New Jaffa.” Menahem Sheinkin: “I suggest the name Tel Aviv, which is the Hebrew name of Herzl’s book ‘Altneuland’, as it was translated by Nahum Sokolow. This is the name by which Herzl wished to express the hope for our future … Read entire article »

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The first dance studio in Tel Aviv

April 22nd, 2009 | 2 Comments

In Ehad-Ha’amstreet no 42 , you will find a ‘simple’, small building designed in 1928 by the architect Ya’acov Ornstein. A building, of wich you will find hundreds of them in Tel Aviv; today with a black/brown facade and the concrete ‘rotten’. You will pass it by, without even notice it…. But this small building became the first dance studio in Tel Aviv, and Ya’acov Ornstein designed it for his wife Margalit Ornstein. The family emigrated, from Vienna, in 1920 to Palestine. The Ornstein-family was a pioneer of dance in Palestine. The ‘free’ (expressive) dance-revolution and the principles of the culture of the body, found fertile ground in this studio. Margalit Ornstein was the founder and theoretician of this new style of dancing. Later, she was the choreographer of the ‘Ornstein Sisters’, … Read entire article »

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Bye Naomi, and thanks!!

April 21st, 2009 | Comments Off

Today was announced that Naomi Bloch Fortis, the Batsheva Dance Company director general and co-artistic director, will leave her post after 11 years of fascinating ballet. Together, she and choreagrapher/artistic director Ohad Naharin have not only made the Batsheva Dance Company one of the world’s most respected dance companies, but they have initiated innovative international projects such as ‘Quantities’ and the trailblazing ‘Furo’ with Japanese video-artists Tabaimo at Tel Aviv Port. Since 1989 the Batsheva Dance Company found their home at the Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and Theatre in Neve-Tsedek. Bye, Naomi and…Thanks!!! … Read entire article »

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The house where Shaul lived

April 21st, 2009 | Comments Off

On the corner of Ehad-Ha’am 89 and Hahashmonai’im Street,you will find a ‘damaged’ Bauhaus-building, designed in 1933 by Joseph Berlin. On the second floor, the famous poet Shaul Tchernichovsky rented in 1937 a tiny room in the building…the local grocery on the opposite corner of the street ‘grumbled about giving him always credit’. Shaul Tchernichovsky was born on August the 20th, 1875 in Mikhaelovka, a village in the Ukraine. He published his first poems in Odessa in 1890. In 1931, he immigrated to Palestine. Besides being a poet, Tchernichovsky was known as an excellent translator and he served as a doctor at the famous Gymnasium Herzliya. Shaul died on October the 14th, 1943 and was buried alongside his friends at the Trumpeldor cemetery (Trumpeldor Street no.9) The house on Ehad Ha’am needs … Read entire article »

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“Why did grandpa sell his sea-shell plot?”

April 20th, 2009 | Comments Off

Today, April 20th, I did found a very interesting article in ‘Ha’aretz’ Daily. In this article, decendants of Tel Aviv’s founders bemoan that ancestors sold off land from the original lottery in what is now the city’s ‘hottest’ neighborhoods. One said: “…they were tricked!” [from Ha'aretz] … Read entire article »

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Tel Aviv Fever one month old! Time for a present :-D

April 19th, 2009 | 5 Comments

Yes, today [19:30 IL Time ;-) ] it is only one month that Tel Aviv Fever is LIVE. :-D We decided to give you a present, because we are thrilled by your reactions, of which we get most by e-mail and not as a comment, but that is a minor detail ;-) Don’t be afraid to tell us what you think! We thought you would love a video channel with video’s of Tel Aviv Only. So we made you our own Tel Aviv Fever vChannel. You can find it in the upper menu or HERE (which basically both do the same ;-) ) If you know a nice video that is not included yet, tell us, so we can put it there too! ENJOY! … Read entire article »

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A city born at a seashell lottery

April 19th, 2009 | 3 Comments

Last year, the Israel Post Office, issued a new stamp with a composition about the famous seashells lottery of 1909. The lottery was held on the second day of Passover, April 11th 1909 in the afternoon. The participants (150 man, woman and children) gathered on the sand dunes, 3 kilometers north of Yafo. Arieh Akiva Weis, chairman of the lottery commitee, gathered 60 grey and 60 white shells. He wrote the name of the participants on the white shells, and the plot numbers on the grey shells. He paired a white and grey shell, assigning each family a plot. After the lottery, Avraham Soskin, took his famous photo. … Read entire article »

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‘I will build thee, and thou shalt be build…’

April 18th, 2009 | Comments Off

In 1949 a memorial was build for the 66 founding families of Tel Aviv on Rothschild Boulevard (between Herzl- and Allenbey Street), called: Founders Square. The inscription on the memorial says: “I will build thee, and thou shalt be build, oh virgin of Israel” … Read entire article »

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Mayor Ron Huldai in ‘Meet the Press’

April 18th, 2009 | 6 Comments

HOT NEWS: I just watched, a few minutes ago on Channel 22 (17:45 – 18:30) mayor Ron Huldai in ‘Meet the Press’. Some main points: On the question how he feels today (Ron was born in kibbutz Hulda, near Rehovot): “I always be proud to be born in kibbutz Hulda, but today I am a Telavivian.” About the large budget for the Centennial celebrations and the expensive show on Rabin-Square, April 4th: “There was a free entrance on Rabin Square; more then 200.000 people were there that evening…that is NIS 20.- a person…so what’s the problem??” About Yafo: “I see it as one of my main task, to bring Tel Aviv and Yafo more close together in all different ways” About, that he made Tel Aviv a place only for the rich: “Not true, only 7% of … Read entire article »

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Tel Aviv Centennial Picture – part 3

April 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment

The surrounding festivities at the old ‘Manshia’ train station today, April 17th, were just wonderful. Actors were dressed-up in clothes of the beginning of 1900, there were free ‘Gazoos‘ drinks (soda with a very sweet syrup), old Jazz music and of course a speech by mayor Ron Huldai. Also good-old ‘Chich‘ (Shlomo Lahat) was at the party. He was mayor of Tel Aviv from 1974 until 1993. … Read entire article »

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