20100625 12:50 Tel Aviv. Neve Tsedek
Rokach House Museum, 10 minutes live
Tel Aviv - Fredric R. Mann Auditorium the home of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under renovation
Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera
zahigo25@walla.com 972-54-6905522 tel
סיור עם מורה הדרך ומדריך הטיולים צחי שקד 0546905522
HaBima Square (also known as The Orchestra Plaza) is a public space in the center of Tel Aviv, Israel, which is home to a number of cultural institutions such as the Habima Theatre, the Fredric R. Mann Auditorium and the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art. The square is located at the intersection of Rothschild Boulevard, Hen Boulevard, Dizengoff Street and Ben Zion Boulevard.
The idea to establish a cultural center was originally proposed in the Geddes Plan, the first master plan of Tel Aviv planned by Patrick Geddes in the late 1920s. Geddes envisioned a kind of a modern Acropolis, where the city's main cultural venues would be (the center was originally planned to house city hall as well). In the Geddes plan, this would be the cultural core of Tel Aviv, while Dizengoff Square nearby would be a commercial center of a different character.
The cornerstone of Habima Theater was laid in 1935. The building was planned by architect Oscar Kaufman in the International style and finished in 1945. The square was inaugurated next to the theatre, additional buildings being added only two decades later. Between the 1930s and the 1950s, the area housed an educational farm and urban nursery, with a grove of Sycamore trees. Most of the trees were eventually uprooted (causing public outrage) but two of the trees were integrated into the Ya'akov Garden.
On June 28, 1948, seven weeks after the Israeli Declaration of Independence, Tel Aviv was the temporarily national capital of Israel while Jerusalem was under siege. On this day, the IDF was declared the national army, in the presence of the mayor Israel Rokach and the foreign minister Moshe Sharett at a ceremony that took place in the square. The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion of Contemporary Art, planned by architects Dov Karmi, Ze'ev Rechter, and Ya'akov Rechter, was established in 1952. At the same time, the Fredric R. Mann Auditorium was constructed, but inaugurated in 1957, as the home of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. When the auditorium was planned, an underground parking lot and an urban plaza were planned too, but due to budgetary considerations, only the northern area of the compound was developed as a plaza. Most of the compound area used as a temporary parking lot.
A year after, Habima was declared the national theater of Israel. Thus the importance of the compound as a national culture center was increased. In 1970, the theater was renovated and a wall was built around the southern circular side of the entrance hall.
During July 2011 the square became a major focal point of the 2011 housing protests in Israel, when Daphne Leef pitched her tent there, followed by hundreds more. A more comprehensive renovation by architect Dani Karavan was launched in 2007, encompassing both the Habima Theater and the plaza. While most of the compound had previously served as a parking lot, the goal of the latest renovation was the construction of an underground lot, allowing the compound to serve as a big plaza. On June 7, 2010 the underground Culture Parking Lot was opened with an area of 40,000 m² and 1,000 parking spaces.
In September 2010, the Ya'akov Garden renovation was completed. A ramp that had led to the garden's upper-balcony was demolished and Chen Boulevard was connected to the square. The renovation of Habima was completed In January 2011, with the renovation of the entire compound in April. Habima Square buildings are a part of the White City of Tel Aviv. The buildings are built in the international style, and many buildings around the square which are also designed in the international style are intended for preservation as a part of the heritage site.
T 018 Israel Footage library: Tel Aviv footage - restored Sarona houses on Kaplan St.
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A luxury-suites hotel located in Neve Tzedek - the Varsano - Boutique Hotel in Tel Aviv
Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera
zahigo25@walla.com 972-54-6905522 tel
סיור עם מורה הדרך ומדריך הטיולים צחי שקד 0546905522
My name is Zahi Shaked
In 2000 I became a registered liscenced tourist guide.
My dedication in life is to pass on the ancient history of the Holy Land.
Following upon many years of travel around the world, which was highlighted by a very exciting emotional and soul-searching meeting with the Dalai Lama, I realized that I had a mission. To pass on the the history of the Holy Land, its religions, and in particular, the birth and development of Christianity.
In order to fulfill this calling in the best way possible, I studied in depth, visited, and personally experienced each and every important site of the ancient Christians. I studied for and received my first bachelors degree in the ancient history of the Holy Land, and am presently completing my studies for my second degree.(Masters)
Parralel to my studies, and in order to earn a living, I was employed for many years in advertising. What I learned there was how to attract the publics attention, generate and, increase interest, and assimilate information. All this I use as tools to describe, explain and deepen the interest in the sites that we visit. From my experience, I have learned that in this way, the Holy Land becomes more than just history, and that the large stones that we see scattered about in dissaray, join together one by one until they become - a Byzantine Church. This also happens when I lead a group of Pilgrims in the Steps of Jesus. We climb to the peak of Mount Precipice, glide over the land to the Sea of Galilee, land on the water and see the miracle which enfolds before us. This is a many faceted experience. Not only history which you will remember and cherish, but an experience which I hope will be inplanted in your hearts and minds, and will accompany you all the days of your life.
HaBima Square (The Orchestra Plaza כיכר הבימה ) Tel Aviv, Israel. Tour guide: Zahi Shaked
Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera
zahigo25@walla.com 972-54-6905522 tel
סיור עם מורה הדרך ומדריך הטיולים צחי שקד 0546905522
HaBima Square (also known as The Orchestra Plaza) is a public space in the center of Tel Aviv, Israel, which is home to a number of cultural institutions such as the Habima Theatre, the Fredric R. Mann Auditorium and the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art. The square is located at the intersection of Rothschild Boulevard, Hen Boulevard, Dizengoff Street and Ben Zion Boulevard.
The idea to establish a cultural center was originally proposed in the Geddes Plan, the first master plan of Tel Aviv planned by Patrick Geddes in the late 1920s. Geddes envisioned a kind of a modern Acropolis, where the city's main cultural venues would be (the center was originally planned to house city hall as well). In the Geddes plan, this would be the cultural core of Tel Aviv, while Dizengoff Square nearby would be a commercial center of a different character.
The cornerstone of Habima Theater was laid in 1935. The building was planned by architect Oscar Kaufman in the International style and finished in 1945. The square was inaugurated next to the theatre, additional buildings being added only two decades later. Between the 1930s and the 1950s, the area housed an educational farm and urban nursery, with a grove of Sycamore trees. Most of the trees were eventually uprooted (causing public outrage) but two of the trees were integrated into the Ya'akov Garden.
On June 28, 1948, seven weeks after the Israeli Declaration of Independence, Tel Aviv was the temporarily national capital of Israel while Jerusalem was under siege. On this day, the IDF was declared the national army, in the presence of the mayor Israel Rokach and the foreign minister Moshe Sharett at a ceremony that took place in the square. The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion of Contemporary Art, planned by architects Dov Karmi, Ze'ev Rechter, and Ya'akov Rechter, was established in 1952. At the same time, the Fredric R. Mann Auditorium was constructed, but inaugurated in 1957, as the home of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. When the auditorium was planned, an underground parking lot and an urban plaza were planned too, but due to budgetary considerations, only the northern area of the compound was developed as a plaza. Most of the compound area used as a temporary parking lot.
A year after, Habima was declared the national theater of Israel. Thus the importance of the compound as a national culture center was increased. In 1970, the theater was renovated and a wall was built around the southern circular side of the entrance hall.
During July 2011 the square became a major focal point of the 2011 housing protests in Israel, when Daphne Leef pitched her tent there, followed by hundreds more. A more comprehensive renovation by architect Dani Karavan was launched in 2007, encompassing both the Habima Theater and the plaza. While most of the compound had previously served as a parking lot, the goal of the latest renovation was the construction of an underground lot, allowing the compound to serve as a big plaza. On June 7, 2010 the underground Culture Parking Lot was opened with an area of 40,000 m² and 1,000 parking spaces.
In September 2010, the Ya'akov Garden renovation was completed. A ramp that had led to the garden's upper-balcony was demolished and Chen Boulevard was connected to the square. The renovation of Habima was completed In January 2011, with the renovation of the entire compound in April. Habima Square buildings are a part of the White City of Tel Aviv. The buildings are built in the international style, and many buildings around the square which are also designed in the international style are intended for preservation as a part of the heritage site.
2000 Schindler traction elevators @ Tel Aviv - University Railway Station, Tel Aviv, Israel.
I did not film the other elevators because I was here only to renew my Rav-Kav.
Very nice elevators, too bad they are quite hard to film as there is a security facility nearby.
These elevators serve the west entrance, the east entrance don't have elevators.
I wonder why the left elevator is not in service more than a decade, I was here around 2008 and it was not in service then.
Electra used to maintain the elevators at this station, now it's Kfir Lifts.
These elevators have Big Chungus fixtures! I use this term to describe elevator buttons whose regularly small but can be found bigger!
---West entrance/Bus terminal elevators---
Brand: Schindler
Maintenance: Kfir Lifts
Type: Traction
Capacity: 1000kg / 13 Persons
Fixtures: Big Chungus
Year: 2000
Floors: 2(0, *1*)
Elevator bank size: 2(The left elevator is not in service more than a decade!)
Serial number: N/A
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour number: 104278
---Building information---
Name: Tel Aviv University Railway Station
Type: Transportation service
Adress: Rokach Blvd. 95
District: District 1
City: Tel Aviv-Yaffo
Metropolitan area: Gush Dan
Region: Tel Aviv District
Country: Israel
---Video information---
Camera: Sony Cyber-shot DSC WX80
Edited with: none
Date of filming: 3/2/2019
File type: MTS
Format: 1080p FULL HD
(C) 2009-20 DPlifts
Luxurious Charming Townhouse in Neve Tzedek
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Luxurious Charming Townhouse at Rokach 10, for the modern family in Artsy and Historical Neve Tzedek. Situated on the quaint and famous Rokah street, which is steps away from the Nachum Gutman Museum. This Hidden Gem can be entered via its private gates, which shares it's courtyard with three similar townhouses.Four floors of Grandeur complete with 6 bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, modern kitchen, granite, marble and wooden floors and two sun filled patios. The Townhouse at Rokach 10 was built in 1997, and completely renovated in 2011.The master en-suite, with a spacious bathroom, large marble bathtub, and private sun deck, sits on the top level of this lovely townhouse.Two additional bedrooms with a shared bathroom and access to the roof deck, adorn this level as well. The Entrance level is via a staircase, where you'll find a modern kitchen, complete with the finest European fittings and appliances, a huge pantry, guest bathroom and living room, dining room, and family room, which all flow onto a fabulous 30 meter patio facing west. The ground level, which can be entered as well, via a separate entrance, has one en-suite bedroom and two additional bedrooms with a shared bathroom, and small family space.The lower level-is simply grand, complete with gym, spacious steam-wet sauna, 8 -person Jacuzzi, modern bar with stools and 1/2 kitchen, Cinema Room (which needs fitting for acoustics), laundry room, and 2 bathrooms. Parking is available on the street, for residents only.
Jaffa
Jaffa, also called Japho or Joppa, is the southern, oldest part of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, an ancient port city in Israel. Jaffa is famous for its association with the biblical stories of Jonah, Solomon, and Saint Peter as well as the mythological story of Andromeda and Perseus.
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Tel Aviv (Hebrew: תֵּל אָבִיב, [tel aˈviv], Arabic: تل أَبيب) is the second most populous city in Israel—after Jerusalem—and the most populous city in the conurbation of Gush Dan, Israel's largest metropolitan area. Located on the country's Mediterranean coastline and with a population of 443,939, it is the economic and technological center of the country.
Tel Aviv is governed by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, headed by Mayor Ron Huldai, and is home to many foreign embassies. It is a global city and is ranked 25th in the Global Financial Centres Index. Tel Aviv has the third- or fourth-largest economy and the largest economy per capita in the Middle East. The city has the 31st highest cost of living in the world. Tel Aviv receives over 2.5 million international visitors annually. A party capital in the Middle East, it has a lively nightlife and 24-hour culture. Tel Aviv is home to Tel Aviv University, the largest university in the country with more than 30,000 students.
The city was founded in 1909 by the Yishuv (Jewish residents) as a modern housing estate on the outskirts of the ancient port city of Jaffa (Hebrew: יָפוֹ Yafo), then part of the Jerusalem province of Ottoman Syria. It was at first called 'Ahuzat Bayit' (lit. building houses, the name of the association which established the neighbourhood), a name changed the following year to 'Tel Aviv'. Its name means Ancient Hill of Spring. Other Jewish suburbs of Jaffa established outside Jaffa's Old City even before Tel Aviv, eventually became part of Tel Aviv, the oldest among them being Neve Tzedek (est. 1886).Immigration by mostly Jewish refugees meant that the growth of Tel Aviv soon outpaced that of Jaffa, which had a majority Arab population at the time. Tel Aviv and Jaffa were later merged into a single municipality in 1950, two years after the Israeli Declaration of Independence, which was proclaimed in the city. Tel Aviv's White City, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003, comprises the world's largest concentration of International Style buildings, including Bauhaus and other related modernist architectural styles.
Jaffa | Wikipedia audio article
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- learn while on the move
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Jaffa, in Hebrew Yafo, or in Arabic Yaffa (Hebrew: יפו, Yāfō ; Arabic: يَافَا, also called Japho or Joppa), the southern and oldest part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, is an ancient port city in Israel. Jaffa is famous for its association with the biblical stories of Jonah, Solomon and Saint Peter as well as the mythological story of Andromeda and Perseus, and later for its oranges.
נוה צדקנו
נוה צדקנו הוא סרטם של תומר שלוש והיוצרת טלי טילר (חיים לספר). הסרט הופק לרגל שנת המאה לתל-אביב בהזמנת קרן צאצאי אהרן שלוש, והוצג בהקרנת בכורה בכנס צאצאי אהרן שלוש שנערך בסוכות ה'תשע-2009.
נוה צדקנו משלב בתוכו את סיפורה של תל-אביב החוגגת מאה שנים להיווסדה ואת סיפורה של משפחת שלוש למן עלייתה לארץ ישראל באמצע המאה ה-19 מיפו, דרך נווה-צדק, אל אחוזת-בית שהפכה לתל-אביב הקטנה. מסיפורה של משפחת שלוש עולה פתאום הסיפור הנשכח על ההיסטוריה של תל-אביב. לפתע נדמה שאולי העיר הזו לא צמחה פתאום מהחולות. אולי בכל זאת יש לתל-אביב הקטנה קצת היסטוריה, ופרקים רבים ממנה נכתבו על ידי משפחת שלוש לפני הקמתה של אחוזת-בית ב-1909 וגם לאחריה.
נוה צדקנו מציג ארבעה דורות ראשונים - אברהם שלוש שחידש ביפו את הקהילה היהודית; בנו אהרן שלוש שהקים את ביתו בנווה-צדק, השכונה היהודית הראשונה מחוץ לחומות יפו שהוקמה על אדמותיו; ילדיו של אהרן שלוש, שיצאו מבית שלוש שבנווה-צדק אל השכונות החדשות שהתחילו את העיר תל-אביב, ושלושה מהם אף נמנים בין מייסדי אחוזת-בית; ונכדיו של אהרן שלוש, שעיצבו את אופייה התרבותי והכלכלי של תל-אביב הקטנה.
נוה צדקנו מציג שלושה דורות אחרונים - סבים וסבתות שהיו ילדים בתל-אביב הקטנה, שלמדו בגימנסיה הרצליה וחזו בהקמתה של מדינת ישראל; ילדיהם, שנולדו ככבר לאחר קום המדינה, והם כיום הורים לילדים; ובחור אחד בשנות ה-20 לחייו, דור חמישי לאהרן שלוש, שהוא יוצר הסרט ומופיע בו כמנחה.
נוה צדקנו | תיעודי | 56 דקות | ישראל 2009