Last Wednesday, October 13th, the first Tel Aviv Global City Forum took place at the Cameri Theatre, with local and international speakers and different workshops.
After the opening remarks of mayor Ron Huldai there were speeches by Chaim Shani, the General Manager of the Ministry of Finance, a speech by Hila Oren, the General Director of TLV Global City, an interesting speech by Jennifer Falk, the Executive Director of the Union Square in New York, who showed that you can change a once neglected square to one of the hottest spots in town. David Kaufman, a reporter from New York, told (this we support from the beginning with our Tel Aviv Fever website!!) that you have to look to another kind of tourism for Tel Aviv-Jaffa: the art-, architectural minded- and gay-tourists.
After the speeches there were 3 workshops on global cities: economy, culture and society.
I have to say, I never saw a ‘bunch’ of people in one place (speakers and participants) from the different parts of society with such a fighting spirit for the city we all love: Tel Aviv-Jaffa.
We wish the TLV Global City team all the success in the future!

Mayor Ron Huldai /w photographer Ron Shoshani