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“Actress, Interrupted”

May 12th, 2009 | Comments Off

Herewith an interesting article about the actress Maya Maron, who is living in the beautiful neighborhood of Neve-Tsedek, written by Doron Halutz in Ha’aretz, May 8th/2009. Maya received an Israeli Oscar in the year 2002 for her role in Broken Wings. She grew up in the Balfour Street, a side-street of Allenbey Street. … Read entire article »

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Suzanne Dellal Centre: Mazzal Tov!

May 9th, 2009 | Comments Off

This year, the Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and Theatre in Neve-Tsedek will celebrate its 20st anniversary. The Centre was established in 1998 by te Dellal family from London, with the help of the Ministry of Culture and Education, following the initiative of, then Mayor, Shlomo Lahat. The Suzanne Dellal Centre is a home for the the Israeli creator who brings the expierence of Israeli life on stage. For over 15 years now, Israeli dance had been blooming. Originality and creativity have joined high technical skills and the results are groundbreaking: since it was founded the Centre has initiated and established over 100 schemes for artistic creation in average, the Centre welcomes over a half million visitors per year in average, the Centre hosts over 600 cultural events and performances per … Read entire article »

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Bye Naomi, and thanks!!

April 21st, 2009 | Comments Off

Today was announced that Naomi Bloch Fortis, the Batsheva Dance Company director general and co-artistic director, will leave her post after 11 years of fascinating ballet. Together, she and choreagrapher/artistic director Ohad Naharin have not only made the Batsheva Dance Company one of the world’s most respected dance companies, but they have initiated innovative international projects such as ‘Quantities’ and the trailblazing ‘Furo’ with Japanese video-artists Tabaimo at Tel Aviv Port. Since 1989 the Batsheva Dance Company found their home at the Suzanne Dellal Centre for Dance and Theatre in Neve-Tsedek. Bye, Naomi and…Thanks!!! … Read entire article »

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Tel Aviv Centennial Picture – part 3

April 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment

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

April 17th, 2009 | 1 Comment

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

April 17th, 2009 | 2 Comments

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 »

Filed under: centennial, history, life, photography

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