Some pictures of the show itself
courtesy by Idan Gazit Pictures by Yeal Beeri … Read entire article »
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This was what you call…a SHOW!!!
Yesterday-evening, I watched from one of the press-towers for an hour, without one second break, an amazing spectacle. Hundreds of thousand of people jammed the Rabin-square and surrounding streets to see unbelievable light- and lasers shows, the most fantastic video-art about “old and new” Tel Aviv, singers, dancers (there were moments with more the 150 kids on stage on roller-skates, dancing and with flags of the three local soccer-clubs). It was ‘gimmick after gimmick’ , e.g. a singer was singing on stage, while her band was playing on a rooftop (!!) of one of the buildings surrounding Rabin-square. At the end…a ‘thundering’ trance-party (DJ); all of Rabin-square, young and old, went ‘out of their minds’ and they just stayed on the square dancing, swinging for a long time. I think … Read entire article »
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Our first mobile phone pictures from Kikar Rabin ;-)
Look at some early mobile phone pics. Thank you, Michal! :-x Find some nice pictures of Idan Gazit here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idangazit/sets/72157616351626114/show/ Nice pictures of Gil Silberman: http://www.flickr.com/photos/giliz/sets/72157616352531714/ Yael Beeri‘s pictures on FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=71272&id=567208323&l=8641566310 Are there more nice pictures around? Please, tell us! We will tell the others! ;-) … Read entire article »
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Show and Tel
Today, April 3rd, Ha’aretz Daily came with a special about “100 years of the first Hebrew city”, with articles e.g.: The New York of the Land of Israel by Maoz Azaryahu Sex(ism) and the City by Merav Michaeli 24-hour party people by Niv Hadas Fifty years from today by (architect) Hillel Schocken All by all: an interesting magazine!! … Read entire article »
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Official opening ceremony at Bialik-square
Thursday-evening, April 2nd there were more then 1.000 guests (Corps Diplomatique, mayors from around the world, officials from the muncipalty of Tel Aviv) invited for the official opening of centennial events. The festive was hold in front of the ‘old’ city hall. The building was designed, as a hotel, by Moshe Cherner in 1928, but it became the first city-hall until 1964. Today it is the ‘Historic Museum of Tel Aviv’. … Read entire article »
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“Tel-Aviv at 100″
Yesterday, April 1st , Tel Aviv received the congratulations from the chief-editor of the ‘Jerusalem Post’…I am sure it wasn’t ‘easy’ for him to write this praise for Tel Aviv ;) But, thanks anyway… As he wrote: “which is fine with Tel Avivians, who think of their coastal city, the country’s commercial and cultural capital, as the ‘real‘ Israel….” [Tel Aviv at 100 in Jerusalem Post] … Read entire article »
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Student exhibition at TAPAC
Alongside the 2 days conference on ‘urban sustainability’, you will find on the square in front of the Tapac-building a beautiful and interesting exhibition put on by dozens of students from 12 universities worldwide. The exhibtion contend with planning questions for a future Tel Aviv-Yafo under the name: ‘from garden city to eco city, Tel-Aviv 2059′ . The exhibtion will be open until April 7th. The competition was organized in cooperation with the Azrieli School of Architecture at Tel Aviv University. … Read entire article »
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Conference launches Centennial celebrations
Today, April 1st 2009 , a two days conference on ‘urban sustainability’ started at a crowded ‘Tapac Center’ in Tel Aviv, with architects, urban-planners, students, press-corps from Israel and abroad (including 8 mayors and 3 deputy mayors from e.g. Toulouse, Budapest, Bonn and Vienna). Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai said in his adress: “…In the land of the prophets, a vision is not a pipe dream but a plan for action. On July 5th 1906, when Akiva Arieh Weiss presented to the Yeshurun club in Yafo the vision of the first Hebrew city, he spoke of a city that would be to Israel what New York was to America. No one really believed that a city would arise on the sands of Yafo….as did one citizen who even as the plots … Read entire article »
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TEL AVIV: For Ever Young
On a sunny afternoon, April the 11th 1909, 150 man, woman and children left the over-crowded port-city of Jaffa and walked 3 km north trough the hot, burning sand to a spot were they decided about the future of today’s Tel Aviv. Within a few month the first houses for those 66 families were build (Herzl, Jehuda-ha Levie and Lilienblum-street). As for today Tel Aviv-Jaffa population hit an all-time high of 391.300 inhabitants, still quite small compare to cities in Europe and the States. But this small city is an open minded city, free of spirit and always on the move. Just read what international magazines and papers wrote the last few years about the city: In January 2008 the leading French fashion magazine Vogue dedicated three flattering articles about Tel Aviv … Read entire article »
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