Rhus Ovata fashion at Dizengoff street
Urban inspiration with an even funkier bent is what best defines Rhus Ovata, the brand created four years ago by young sisters, Einav and Hadas Zucker, two of Israel’s fashion darlings. Einav got her start after winning a competition for young designers sponsored by Diesel. After a short stay in New York, the duo settled back in Tel Aviv and they opened their own boutique at Dizengoff Street. More info: www.rhusovata.com … Read entire article »
Aluma Klein, fashion boutique at Basel Square
Aluma Klein opened her boutique of the same name in charming Basel Square over a year ago and has since garnered adoring fans like Keren Ann (the celebrated French chanteuse) and collabrations with Batsheva, one of the country’s most distinguished dance companies. You will find hand-dyed French-lace flapper dresses, multi-colored crocheted shawls and fitted, Victorian-inspired overcoats in her finely edited shop. … Read entire article »
Bloody Zombie Walk Night in Tel Aviv
For the first time ever, there will be a ‘Zombie Walk’ Night in Tel Aviv. This ‘bloody’ event will be on Thursday, March 17th. from 22.30 until 01.30 along Rothschild Boulevard (start at the corner of Herzl Street and Rothschild Boulevard). Come, dress as a zombie and feel like in ‘Another World’ =)!! … Read entire article »
Allenby 58, from cinema to club to apartment complex
In the beginning of 2000 ‘Allenby 58′ was the place to be: a groundbreaking club, with the best dj’s of the world. Years before it was known as the ‘Rimon Cinema’. It started all in 1930 when architect Shlomo Gepstein was commissioned a plan to design a three-storey block of flats on a plot at Allenby 58. Plans changed and in 1932 a cinema was build. After the 80′s the building crumbled down, until it became a Tel Aviv … Read entire article »
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Photo’s of Tel Aviv Fever editor in Dutch Playboy Magazine
Tel Aviv Fever editor Ed Hofschreuder was asked to provide photo’s of Tel Aviv to illustrate an article about the Israel/Tel Aviv experience of Dutch Playboy Magazine editor Jan Heemskerk, chief editor Marcel Langedijk and friend Joel Fresco under the title: “Playboy’s Wild Weekends” It is a fun story with mixed feelings of the three, but the overall question, “Is Israel no fun?” is answered in the article: “Are you crazy? Israel is fantastic. They are only a bit fanatic about … Read entire article »
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Oscar for Short documentary about Tel Aviv: Strangers No More [with trailer]
![Oscar for Short documentary about Tel Aviv: Strangers No More [with trailer]](http://www.telaviv-fever.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/strangers-no-more-documentary-300x207.jpg "Strangers No More")
Breaking News: A few hours ago the short documentary: ‘Strangers No More’, directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon (from New York: the Simon & Goodman Pictures Company) received an Academy Award (Oscar) for ‘Best Short Documentary’. It is the story about the Bialik-Rogozin School, a unique school in South-Tel Aviv (near the Central Bus station) with children from more then 48 countries around the world, most of them refugees. Karen & Kirk: Congrats !! More (former) Oscars … Read entire article »
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Just some random facts about Tel Aviv
January 2011… Population : 403.000; Academic institutions: 9; Museums: 23; Theaters: 9; Dog parks: 40; Dog owners: 20.000; Gyms: 80; Bars: 450; Sushi restaurants: 100 (the 3rd. highest concentration per capita in the world ); Private investigators: 108; Matchmaking services: 18; Public libraries: 22; Bookstores: 91; Cafes: 332; Street lamps: 63.312 and 151 outdoor sculptures… We think you should come to see it all with your own eyes. Even the (many) dogs… ;-) … Read entire article »
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Gallery Tour in Neve-Tsedek
Irgoen Oleh Holland, the Dutch New Immigrants Organization will have an exciting Gallery Tour in the old and picturesque neighborhood ‘Neve-Tsedek’ (1883) on March 4th. The tour will start at 9.30.The tour will be in Dutch! For information, please call: Milly Horowitz (03-5169096). … Read entire article »
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Transparent Black, a short film by Roni Geffen
The short movie ‘Transparent Black’, directed by young Israeli director Roni Geffen did a great job at last month ‘FlickerFest’, the 20th. International Short Film Festival at Bondi Beach in Sydney. There were 1790 worldwide entries for the festival: Roni’s short was one of the 108 screened and she had a ‘tough battle’ with a Polish entry for the ‘National Geographic Award for Best Documentary’. Her short is about the African refugees in Tel Aviv. At … Read entire article »
Alfas House needs a restoration badly
The Alfas House build in the Eclectic Style in Balfourstreet no.4 was designed in 1924 by Alexander Levy; the same architect who designed the beautiful Pagoda House on the King George Square. The 559 square meters building with his impressive, redish facade is slated for preservation under very strict restrictions, which do not permit additional construction. The building is now many years in a bad condition and is waiting for his saviour” … … Read entire article »
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Carmel tragedy
We know… Tel Aviv Fever is about Tel Aviv-Yafo and Tel Aviv-Yafo only. But sometimes there are things that need to be said. We are SO glad that the 77 hour (!) blaze is over and no more people can get killed… I was travelling when I heard about the terrible disaster and could not react on it before. My buddy Frits was using e-mail and facebook to keep people, including me, informed about what was happening, … Read entire article »
No English noodles in Giraffe Tel Aviv
While walking to the Cinemateque Tel Aviv to see the rewarded movie I Shot My Love, we walked by a restaurant where the people were waiting in line to get a table. This was nothing new, but the place looked nice, so it glued to our memory. A week later we tried to eat something somewhere with our friend Michal. After trying some other places we accidentaly got to the same place that we passed last … Read entire article »
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Information Center of the Association for Tourism Tel Aviv-Jaffa [non-paid advertorial ;-) ]
![Information Center of the Association for Tourism Tel Aviv-Jaffa [non-paid advertorial ;-) ]](http://www.telaviv-fever.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/DSC02112-300x200.jpg "Fountain in front of Opera Tower")
If you are visiting Tel Aviv for the first time or even for a second or more times it is wise to visit the friendly people at the Information Center of the Association for Tourism Tel Aviv-Jaffa… They can tell you lots of things about Tel Aviv, for instance the free guided tours on Tuesdays, cycling in Tel Aviv…. And there is a lot of material which is refreshed every day. When we were there they … Read entire article »
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