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Documentary The Flat wins an Ophir Award 2011
Last Thursday-evening 98 minutes documentary The Flat, directed by Arnon Goldfinger received the Award for Best Documentary at the Ophir Awards 2011 (the ‘Israeli Oscars’). It is the story about the grandparents of Arnon, who were living on the 3rd. floor of a Bauhaus building at 31, Gordon Street in Tel Aviv. Arnon says about his documentary: “…My grandparents lived on the 3rd. floor since 1935, when they immigrated to Palestine. The flat was furnished with … 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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77 Steps, a love story in Tel Aviv
“It’s a story of love in the city, far away from home and family, chasing dreams on the gritty pavements, walking up endless flights of stairs, looking from dilapidated balconies into the brilliant white Mediterranean sun, surrounded by crowds, looking for a friend, a job, an apartment, creating live. At night the colors of the city creating live, there’s a party on the roof, the music is right and the meet…” wrote Ayelet Dekel in a review about 77 Steps, a documentary directed by Ibtisam Mara’ana, that was screened a few days ago at the 27th Jerusalem Film Festival. It is a love story of the (woman) director, moving from a Muslim village in the North of the country to Tel Aviv and her Jewish-Canadian neighbor Jonathan. The documentary is fast-paced, … Read entire article »
Ayman Sikseck: the young writer from Jaffa
Last Friday, April 9th, I did find an long and very interesting article written by Doron Halutz in Haaretz Magazine about the young columnist and literary critic, Ayman Sikseck. The 26 years old Ayman, born in Jaffa, just released his debut work of fiction: “To Jaffa”. It is a story about the expierence of a literature student at the Hebrew University who divides his time between Jaffa and Jerusalem, and between a secret affair with his beloved Sherihan, a Muslim woman who is engaged to someone else, and a relationship with Nitzan, a Jewish woman. The book is only in Hebrew for now, but Ayman told me a few days ago, that they are talking about an English translation. We will keep you informed.. … Read entire article »
Filed under: books, life, literature
Art exhibition 2nd Nature
The, in Jerusalem born (1966) artist Ayal Shifron will have an exhibition 2nd Nature at the Kastiel’s Loft, El-Al Building, Ben Yehoeda Street no.32, on Wednesday, February 10th at 20:00. The exhibition is curated by Ella Yaari. Ayal Shifron has his own studio-cum-gallery: Studio Shifron in Old-Jaffa. … Read entire article »
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Jerusalem Moments /09 in Tel Aviv
Last Thursday,November the 12th, the Cinematheque Tel Aviv screened the Tel Aviv premiere of Jerusalem Moments/09, a documentary that leaves you speechless, from artistic director Yael Perlov and produced by Yariv Mozer. Jerusalem Moments/09 shows you 7 short documentaries directed by 7 Palestinian and Israeli directors (Momen Shabaneh, Liviu Babic, Sabri Markesto, Avi Goldstein, Yasmine Novak, Radwan Duha and Daniel Gal). The premiere screenig was attended by representatives of the Embassies of Egypt, Finland, Germany, Italy and Australia. Guests of honor were a group youngsters from Ramallah (Westbank) and East, Arab Jerusalem and Ilan de Vries, director of the Jerusalem International Film Festival. A special quest was the 82 years old Mr. Muhammad al-Dajani from East-Jerusalem, the main character of the short made by director Radwan Duha: In … Read entire article »
Bauhaus-building sold for $2million
A Bauhaus-building (1936) in the Yehuda Halevie Street was sold yesterday to a privat investor for NIS 7.3 million ($2 million). The structure, 4 stories-high,was build on a land measuring 280 square meters. It was owned by an offshoot of one of the founders of the famous Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. The new owner said that he will restore the historic building and add an other floor on it (costs: $1 million). … Read entire article »
Filed under: architecture, history, restoration
Being there
A long, interesting article I did found in Haaretz Magazine (August 14 ) written by Ariel Hirschfeld about the new movie: Ajami, directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani. The movie, about a neighborhood in Yafo, won the Wolgin Prize for best feature film this year at the Jerusalem Film Festival and a ‘”honorable mention” at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. The movie is in the race to be send to next year’s Oscar celebrations. … Read entire article »
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Tel Aviv Centennial Picture – part 3
The surrounding festivities at the old ‘Manshia’ train station today, April 17th, were just wonderful. Actors were dressed-up in clothes of the beginning of 1900, there were free ‘Gazoos‘ drinks (soda with a very sweet syrup), old Jazz music and of course a speech by mayor Ron Huldai. Also good-old ‘Chich‘ (Shlomo Lahat) was at the party. He was mayor of Tel Aviv from 1974 until 1993. … Read entire article »
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Tel Aviv Centennial Picture – part 2
Abraham Soskin‘s photo, which documented the famous seashell lottery on April 11th,1909, has become an emblem of Tel Aviv’s mythology and history. It was wonderful to see today, April 17th,2009, all the descendants families, some nearly 90 years old, some still small babies. Everywhere people took group pictures and the largest descendants family came to the old Yafo train-station with 135 family-members!! Some families had pictures on them from their great-grandparents (the founders) some made special T-shirts (of the famous Gymnasium Herzliya). [edit: The Tel Aviv Centennial Photo Series are here: (1, 2 & 3)] … Read entire article »
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Tel Aviv Centennial Picture – part 1
Today, April 17th, thousands of descendants of the 66 family-founders of Tel-Aviv (1909) flocked the old ‘Manisha’ train-station, built at the end of the 19th century on the border of Neve-Tsedek (it connected Yafo with Jerusalem). Today the site comprises more then 20 renovated buildings surrounded by landscaped lawns, and will include boutique shops, cafes and restaurants. One of the descendants of the Sirkis-family showed me a rare object: an invitation from March 1959 for the 50 year celebration of Tel Aviv, his grandfather (one of the founders of Tel Aviv) received from the municipality. Within the invitation was a copy of the original picture, taken by Avraham Soskin on April 11th 1909 (the sea-shell lottery) and two entry-tickets for the celebration. His grandfather didn’t visit the evening, because the entry-strips … Read entire article »
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