This week an exhibition was opened in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art about the Israeli photographer Yakov Agor (1911-1996), who became famous for his pictures in the left-wing weekly ‘HaOlam-Haze’ (Uri Avneri) and later on in ‘Haaretz Magazine’… Information: 03-607.7020
I did found this most interesting article in the Ha’aretz newspaper about the preservation of historic buildings in the city. As the frequent readers of Tel Aviv Fever will know, we support restoration and renovation projects in the inner-city for 100% and are fully against a destruction of an (important) historic building. An historic building is a part of the culture… Read more →
The renovation of the Tel Aviv Port / Namal, done by the architect Udi Kassif and his wife Ganit Maislits Kassif, received one of the most important awards in European landscape architecture at the European Biennial for Landscape Architecture in Barcelona. Ganit & Udi : Mazzaltov!! [source: Haaretz]
On Friday February 22, 1935 Migdalor Cinema opened its doors at the corner of Allenby and Ben Yehuda Streets in Tel Aviv. It brought a revolution, because newsreels were untill this time only shown occasionally in movie theaters and now the theather was going to show a new newsreel every week. In the first years the Carmel Newsreels were seen… Read more →
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]
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 at the HerzLilienblum Museum… Read more →
In the Haaretz Daily, I did find a wonderful article about Tel Aviv written by Liza Schwartz: “Strolling down Champs Elysees without leaving Tel Aviv”. She write: “…who can argue with seeing a bit of Paris for the price of a Tel Aviv vacation?”
In Haaretz Magazine of Friday, December 25th, I did find a long, interesting article written by Doron Halutz about the composer Gil Shohat. Living in Jaffo with his partner Brian, the 36 years old Gil is the most prominent name on the classical music scene in Israel today. “This days he is working hard on a new ambitious composition for… Read more →
An awesome criticism, I saw today in Ha’aretz about the concert of Paul Anka, yesterday evening in the Nokia Stadium. Ben Shalev wrote: “..Paul Anka’s performance in the Nokia Stadium in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night reminded his audience that he is a talented songwriter, an exellent singer, and outstanding entertainer, despite his age…” Tonight, Thursday 19th of November, Paul… Read more →
