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Even more bike lanes for Tel Aviv

Even more bike lanes for Tel Aviv

The Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo will spent another NIS150 million (30 million euro) in the next five years on building 150 km of new bike-lanes in the city. Fourteen years ago, Tel Aviv did not have even one bicycle path. As for today the city has more then 100 kilometers of paths, trails and lanes. According to a 2010 municipal poll, 38 percent of Tel Aviv residents own a bicycle. The now familair green bikes in … Read entire article »

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TEL O FUN, rent a green bike in Tel Aviv has started

TEL O FUN, rent a green bike in Tel Aviv has started

Since this month (May 2011) you can rent a bike in Tel Aviv, based on the famous Dutch “Witte Fietsen Plan” (White Bike Plan) (see our article before). The Tel Aviv Municipality invested NIS 100 million ($25 million) in the so called: Tel O Fun rent a bike. More then 2.000 green bikes you will find at the so called ‘docking stations’ around Tel Aviv. The system works with credit cards (the Amsterdam bike … Read entire article »

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Municipality TLV: no new skyscrapers in center

So sometimes there is good news coming from the offices of the Municipality of Tel Aviv: the Municipality’s Planning and Construction Committee decided yesterday not to approve building of any new tower in the city center (just like places as Amsterdam and Paris). According to an outline plan for 2025 high-risers will be concentrated in the city’s East-Side. Ron… Kol Ha Kavod !!! … Read entire article »

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White bike rental in Tel Aviv

I have been thinking and dreaming about riding a bike in Tel Aviv before, so the decision of the finance committee of the City of Tel Aviv-Yafo to put money in the bike rental system is great news! The first white bike plan ever has been ‘developed’ by students at the end of the sixties  in Amsterdam (Ask Frits all about it. He was there! ;-) – ed.) and between then and now there have been several bicycle sharing systems in different countries, the last – Vélib – in Paris, France. They all had their problems, mostly concering vandalism and theft… In Tel Aviv hey will start with 1500 bikes and 150 stations, which will be 5250 bikes and 225 stations in 10 years. I really hope they succeed, because as I said … Read entire article »

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Homage to Chet Baker in Tel Aviv

On Friday November  27th at 22:00, the ensemble of Nicola Stilo will give a homage at the ‘cool’ Jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and singer: Chet Baker at the Opera House, TAPAC-Center (info: 03-6927777). Chet Baker was born on December 23th, 1929 in Yale, Oklahoma and died on May 13th, 1988 from falling from the window of hotel Prins Hendrik at the Prins Hendrikkade 53 in Amsterdam. In his room, the police found heroin & cocaine. At the entrance of the hotel, you will find a placard in memory of one of the most famous Jazz hero’s of the 50s. … Read entire article »

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We are waiting for Spencer Tunick

Spencer Tunick, born on January 1st 1967, is the American ‘nude people installation’ artist with, until now, more then 70 of his art-projects worlwide (Dublin, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Rome, London, Helsinki, Maine, Barcelona, etc.) His art-projects are involving sometimes more then 18.000 nude people. Ari Fruchter, Board member of The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, started a few weeks ago an action (on Facebook) called: ‘Bring Spencer Tunick to Israel’ . He wrote: “Help make history in Israel and prove the sceptics wrong by showing that Israeli’s are open minded and free…” and: “We’re organizing a large scale photo installation in Israel for Spencer Tunick, along with a documentary (‘Naked Israel’) and a museum exhibition.” Yes, let’s prove it!!! As a Facebook-member sign in as a fan of: ‘Bring Spencer Tunick to Israel!!” Soon … Read entire article »

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‘ETTY’ on stage in Israel

        ‘The Girl Who Could Not Kneel’, a play based on the Etty Hillesum’s diaries, directed by Baruch Brenner and Sammy Ibrahim Mussa will be brought on stage (at last !!) in Israel by the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio Jerusalem. During the second world war, Etty Hillesum, a 27 year old Jewish woman living in occupied Amsterdam started writing a diary which sets out to describe her exeptional inner journey. These unique notes (the original book in Dutch: ‘Etty, De nagelaten geschriften van Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943‘ has 880 pages!!) unveil the story of a woman who’s to face inner and outer pain trough the kind of powerful belief that also gives compassion and strength to others. Etty Hillesum’s story is one of victory by inner reactions and moral judgements in times where … Read entire article »

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Renovation a matter of taste?

From where do this restoration/renovation architects in Tel-Aviv (at least a part of them) received this horrible ‘ taste’?? On the Ben-Jehuda Street no. 8, you will find the famous Hershberg House, designed in 1926 by Joseph Berlin. Berlin was born in 1877 in the Ukraine. He studied architecture in Odessa and in St.Petersburg. He emigrated to Palestine in 1921. His early buildings are largely in silicate stone and reminicent of Berlage‘s, the Dutch architect from Amsterdam (!), brick buildings. In 1998/99 the  Hershberg House was restored and the restoration architect thought it was ‘proper’ to add an aluminium floor on top of this historic building. A ‘matter of taste”. … Read entire article »

Filed under: architecture, history, restoration

Tel Aviv: a melting pot of culture

In the Jerusalem Post of April 16th, you will find an interesting article about jazz-singer Nati Rosental, original from Romania (she studied music in Amsterdam). The Post wrote: “…and today she lives in a two apartment-room with a friend in the midst of a lively artist community in Tel-Aviv. She says: “My friends are mainly artist and musicians”. Her circle includes Israelis, Europeans, Africans, Arabs and North-Americans… A true ‘melting pot’. … Read entire article »

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