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Dvir Gallery opens new spacious site in Jaffa Port

September 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment

On Tuesday, September 8th at 18:00 will be the official opening of a new space by the famous Dvir Gallery in the old Jaffa Port (Hangar 2). The opening-solo show will be by the artist Douglas Gordon. This is the 3rd time that Gordon will show his art-work for Dvir Gallery (in 1988 and in 2008). This time at the new space of the gallery, Gordon wil present a selection of the large-scale video projections made for his 2008 retrospective in Avignon, France. The installation is especially adapted to the gallery’s spacious new site. We wish the Dvir Gallery success with their new space and a lot of new art shows, this coming years!! … Read entire article »

Filed under: art, exhibitions, video

What is ‘hot’ in Tel Aviv??

August 22nd, 2009 | 1 Comment

The Association for Tourism Tel Aviv-Yafo published a new pocket-size English guide, called: Visit Tel Aviv-Yafo. The guide divides Tel Aviv-Yafo in five districts areas-the North, City Center, the Heart, the South and Jaffa. You will find maps, adresses, web site information and phonenumbers, each section is illustrated by photographs and a short introduction to each Tel Aviv area. The guide unearth the secrets of Tel Aviv’s mystique. The guide is available ( NIS 60) at the Ass. for Tourism (Herbert Samuel Street no.46, Tel Aviv’s Boulevard) or at Steimatsky bookstores. … 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 »

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