Frits on February 11th, 2010

Yesterday, during a bright sunny day, I visited the beautiful Ajami-neighborhood.
Towards the end of the 19th century the Ajami neighborhood , stretching south of ‘Old-Jaffa’ started to be built. In the beginning of the 20th century hundreds of families, mainly Christian-Arabs, settled in Ajami. After 1948, a large Arab population from different parts of [...]

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Frits on January 18th, 2010

A very loveable article, I did find in the METRO (Jerusalem Post, Friday January 15th) written by Joanna Paraszcur about the Florentin neighborhood in Tel Aviv, founded almost 90 years ago by Greek immigrants: “Florentin – from Salonika to Soho”.
The neighborhood is today a new catch for real-estate developers.

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Ed on January 12th, 2010

Okay, it is nothing Jurrasic, but still some years ago…
Archeologists did find the remains of a three-room building on the banks of the Yarkon River in the Tel Aviv region. The building is dated and is between 7800 and 8400 years old, the Israel Antiquities Authority tells us.
[sources: Bloomberg and Ha'aretz]

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Ed on January 11th, 2010

Again on Ha’aetz.com there is a very interesting story [LINK] about so called fire marks from Israel. I was quite intrigued by this story. These fire (insurance) marks were the sign that insurance was payed for the specific building and in the British Mandate period quite common.
Until February 25 the fire marks are on display [...]

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Frits on December 26th, 2009

In the Barzilay Street no.6, near the Rothschild Boulevard, you will find a beautiful restored Bauhaus (or International Style) building from 1934. It is one of the more then 4.000 International Style buildings, you will find in the inner-city of Tel Aviv, designed between 1930 and 1938.

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