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Hayovel Tower
125 Menachem Begin Road, Tel Aviv
Friday, May 7th, 12:00
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Architects: Ben Peleg Architects, 1999-2008. Interior architecture: Aliza Sheinzon Studio, 2008
Led by the tower`s interior designer, the tour will present the complex planning stages of the two-wing tower – one housing government offices, and the other serving as a private office building. The tour will focus on the lobby`s interior design, featuring a multi-layer and organic environmental sculpture which extends from the floor towards the ceiling, and culminate with a breathtaking view of the city from the 25th floor.
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Azrieli Center
Meeting place: entrance to the lobby of the Round Tower
Friday, May 7th, 10:00 and 12:00
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Architects: David Azrieli; Eli Attia; Yasky-Sivan Architects, 2008
Do you want to see Tel Aviv from a height of 187 meters? The Azrieli Towers management is hosting two tours at the Azrieli Center and the Round Tower – one of Tel Aviv`s most familiar landmarks. The tour will pass through the tallest of the three towers and address the connection between the shopping mall and the towers. The tour will end with a view from the helicopter landing pad located on the roof of the tower.
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Transportation in the City
Meeting place: the lobby of the Round Tower, Azrieli Towers
Friday, May 7th, 11:00
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A meeting with Arik Tapiro, who manages the transportation division at the Society for the Protection of Nature. He`ll discuss the transportation-related problems characterizing the busiest point of entry to the city, as well as past, present and future plans for dealing with traffic problems. The meeting will take place on the roof of the Azrieli Towers, enabling a comprehensive view the transportation infrastructures existing in the area.
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Hahaskala Boulevard
Meeting point: the corner of Derech Hashalom and Hahaskala Blvd. (at the northern end of the Boulevard)
Friday, May 7th, 11:00 and 14:00
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A chance to tour with the environmental designer Ram Eisenberg, who has been entrusted with planning the Boulevard under one of the most outstanding landscape projects carried out in recent years: namely, renovation of an urban park that attempts to empower the nature found in the city and produce an ecological milieu conducive to animals – while at the same time preserving the park`s neighborhood-community character. The story of the members of the Haskala (Jewish Enlightenment) movement will also be told through this project, after whom the neighborhood`s streets are named.
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The Home of the Architect Sharon Tshanovsky
12 Schulman St., Bizaron.
Friday, May 7th, 11:00-16:00
Saturday, May 8th, 11:00-16:00.
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Architect: Sharon Tshanovsky, 2003
A chance to visit a house originally built in the 1950s in a housing project for new immigrants. It was redesigned in 2003 as a contemporary urban villa using a minimalist approach, with an exposed construction, high ceilings and spaces that are a continuation of the garden, blurring the boundaries between the exterior and the interior. An example of different Tel Aviv architecture that doesn`t cling to the four room + patio concept.
Open house. Reservations not required. |
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Everything About Montefiore
Meeting place: the water tower on the corner of Bet Shammai St. and Bet Hillel St.
Friday, May 7th, 15:30;
Saturday, May 8th, 9:30
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The Montefiore neighborhood appears on the list of the country`s 400 national heritage sites. The neighborhood, which has known several development initiatives throughout its history, has been experiencing construction mania in recent years. After this mania passes, only the names of the streets are likely to be left behind, to remind us of the quiet neighborhood it once was. Led by the architect Roy Fabian, the tour will offer a glimpse of this "island" in the eye of Tel-Aviv-Yafo`s real estate storm, just before it’s consumed by a sea of speculation and building rights. The tour lasts about two hours.
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The Architect Miki Ben Gan`s Apartment
4 Hagilboa St., Apartment 2, Tel Aviv
Friday, May 7th, 10:00-14:00; Saturday, May 8th, 10:00-14:00
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Interior architect: Miki Ben Gan, 2008
An open house at the garden apartment of architect Miki Ben Gan, located in a 1930s residential building on a traffic-restricted and picturesque street in downtown Tel Aviv. The apartment was partially designed as a loft, and it`s possible to divide or combine the public and private spaces using double doors.
Open house. Reservations not required. |
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The Designer Gal Florsheim`s Apartment
8 Warburg St., downtown Tel Aviv
Friday, May 7th, 12:00-16:30;
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Interior design: Gal Florsheim, 2008
An open house at the designer Gal Florsheim`s childhood home, located near the Habima Theater. The apartment was remodeled as half a loft with an open residential space, also consisting of a transparent, glass wall studio. The apartment was designed in a hi-tech atmosphere with personal touches.
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White Architecture
Meeting place: in the courtyard behind Hateumim House, located at 7-9 Mazeh St.
Saturday, May 8th, 9:00-12:00
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A tour of Tel Aviv`s streets with the architect Dan Price, which aims to identify the features of white architecture, the modern architectural style in the Land of Israel. The tour will be conducted from an architectural, rather than historical, perspective and will trace the development of the local architectural language, starting in the British Mandate period and up to the establishment of the State of Israel.
The tour lasts about three hours.
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The Artist Naomi Merkel`s Studio
15 Mazeh St., Tel Aviv, entrance from the yard
Friday, May 7th, 10:00-13:00.
Saturday, May 8th, 10:00-15:00.
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Interior design: Gili Reshef-Gol (Art of Space), 2008
A former HMO clinic that was converted into an artist`s studio. A spacious and well-lit space in an unexpected location and meticulously designed.
Open house. Reservations not required. |
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Polishuk House
Magen David Square, the corner of 1 Nachlat Binyamin St
Friday, May 7th. 13:00-18:00; Saturday, May 8th, 12:00-18:00
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Architects: Shlomo Liaskovsky and Yaakov Orenstein, 1934; Architecture and preservation: Nitza Szmuk Architects. A pre-renovation project
An open house at a building constructed in the International Style, whose design was influenced by similar buildings built on street corners in Israel and Germany that were planned by the architect Erich Mendelsohn. Polishuk House is regarded as one of the best examples of an office building built in the white construction style.
The building, presently designated for renovation, will be converted from an office building into an urban boutique hotel, with suites located on the circular façade and a swimming pool on the roof.
The open house will also feature an exhibit of historic photographs of the building, planning simulations and the blueprints for its future renovation.
Open house. Reservations not required. |
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A mud block building workshop
25 Ha`avoda St.
Saturday, May 8th, 10:00-14:00
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The Kindergarten Campus invites the public to a creative morning dedicated to environmental and construction-related topics. Open workshops for people of all ages will be held in the schoolyard, where participants can build blocks out of mud and construct model houses which, when combined together, will form a large model of the city of Tel Aviv. All the activities will be facilitated by the artist Hadas Naomi Or.
It`s advisable to come in clothes that can get dirty.
Open workshops. Reservations not required.
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46 Hacarmel
46 Hacarmel St. (inside the market), Tel Aviv
Saturday, May 8th, 9:30-18:00
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Architect: unknown, 1928
Reflecting a bold move on their part, the Rokotnitz-Mandel family bought a dilapidated Bauhaus building inside the Carmel Market and turned it into a three-story residence. The renovation entailed minimal changes to the interior layout and some of the house`s original furniture was also restored. A rare opportunity to uncover the real estate and architectural potential inherent in the Market`s streets.
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Pri-Or Portrait Studio and Rudi Weissenstein`s Lab
30 Allenby St. and 5 Hakovshim St.
Friday, May 7th, 10:00-16:00; Saturday, May 8th, 10:00-16:00
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An open house at a location that embodies Tel Aviv`s and Israel`s collective memory, containing more than 500,000 negatives of photographs taken since 1936. Visitors will be able to view the collection and order copies as souvenirs, or have their own black and white picture taken at this famous studio where all of the nation`s prominent leaders were photographed over the years. In honor of Houses From Within, it will also be possible to get a glimpse of Rudi Weissenstein`s remodeled lab on Hakovshim St.
At 12 noon on both Friday and Saturday, a discussion about urban scale will be held at the lab, further to the initiative to build a connected urban tenement block on the site. The discussion will be led by the architects Arnon Baram and Assaf Oshinski who renovated the lab.
Open house. Reservations not required.
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Tel Aviv Without Wheels
Meeting place: the corner of 1 Aharonson St. and Herbert Samuel St.
Saturday, May 8th, 16:00-18:00
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What turns a city into a city? What produces street life? Yoav Lerman, who investigates sidewalks as part of his academic research, will be leading the tour. It will observe the city from the pedestrians` perspective and try to examine how sidewalk planning affects the pedestrians` user experience - and how all this impacts the city. The tour will stop at places where the city offers pedestrians considerable freedom and at other places where they are relegated to the bottom of the user hierarchy.
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The Glass House
3 Hashomer St., 1st floor (accessed from the Nachlat Binyamin pedestrian mall), Tel Aviv
Friday, May 7th, 11:00-17:00;
Saturday, May 8th, 11:00-19:00
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Home of the artists Lital Dotan and Eyal Peri, all of the apartment`s spaces constitute an art exhibit open to the public, besides serving as a stage for installations. It is an extreme example of how the boundaries between art and life itself can be blurred as well as those between indoors and outdoors. The name of the house is a metaphor for the totality of the exposure in which its occupants live.
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Five Stations of Preservation Ethics
Meeting place: the corner of 32 Montefiore St. and 18 Yavne St.
Saturday, May 8th, 9:00
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The architect Ran Baram will lead a novel tour associated with his field of academic research: the relationships between hi-rise architects and preservation architects, whose fate has brought them together in joint projects. The tour will stop at five pairs of non-identical twins in the historic city center: hi-rises built by some of the major banks and the buildings designated for preservation located right beneath them. The tour will also examine how the buildings are growing closer and whether they reflect the relationships existing between the architects.
The tour involves walking for about one kilometer and lasts roughly 90 minutes.
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Downtown Tel Aviv
Meeting place: 36 Nachmani St. and the corner of 91 Yehuda Halevi St., Tel Aviv
Friday, May 7th, 14:00
and 16:00
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Led by Yossi Goldberg and accompanied by rare historical photographs, two tours of a neighborhood that was established on sand dunes in the middle of the 1920s. The tours will pass between prominent buildings and recount the life stories of the people who lived in them. The book will be for sale during the tour at a reduced price.
Each tour lasts about 90 minutes.
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Lodzia House (The Red House)
43 Nachmani St.
Friday, May 7th, 10:00-16:00;
Saturday, May 8th, 11:00-18:00
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Architects: Akiva Aryeh Weiss, Yosef Berlin, 1924; Preservation and redesign: Amnon Bar Or. Interior architect: Orly Shrem. A project still underway.
A rare opportunity to visit the ground floor and first floor of Lodzia House, which was built in stages during the 1920s. Commissioned by a group of entrepreneurs from the Polish city of Lodz, the building initially served as the Lodzia textile factory, named after their city of origin. Its design reflects the style of Polish industrial workshops characteristic of the period, with red brick facades, a slanted roof and large windows for light. Over the years the facility served a variety of purposes and is now being converted into an apartment building. An exhibit entitled "Milestones" will also be on display, featuring a collection of `Zionism 2000` posters.
Tours for groups of 30 on a first-come, first-served basis. Reservations not required. |
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Turnowsky House
3 Ben Zakkai St., Tel Aviv
Friday, May 7th, 9:00-13:00
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Interior architecture: Rose & Bloom, Limor Moga and Gilat Bloom, 2009
An open house and tours with the interior architects of the project that created a home for the Turnowsky international greeting cards company, consisting of offices, a design studio, showroom and store. An opportunity to become inspired by personal and family design that articulates the owners` artistic preferences and their love for their craft. All this was skillfully addressed by the architects, who took care to preserve the architectural values of the original eclectic building.
Open house. Reservations not required. Tours for groups of 20 will start every 30 minutes on a first-come, first-served basis.
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The Next Generation
Studio 6B, 39 Ahad Ha`am St.
Friday, May 7th, 9:00-17:00; Saturday, May 8th, 9:00-18:00
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During the Houses From Within weekend, Studio 6B will host an exhibition of projects created by students from different architecture schools in Israel, where they will present their thoughts regarding the city`s future. The exhibition will suggest various options for coping with two urban issues: students from the Bezalel Academy of Art will offer proposals for planning a single house within the urban fabric from a sustainability perspective and students from Haifa`s WIZO College will present ideas for redesigning an urban tenement block (the Dan Garage).
Other spaces in the building will showcase projects done by students from the 6B School of Design and the 6B Architecture firm.
Open exhibition. Reservations not required. |
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Baranowitz-Kronenberg Discussion
5 Bezalel Yafe St., downtown Tel Aviv (inside Studio 6B)
Friday, May 7th, 14:00
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A discussion held at the offices of this leading interior architecture firm, which specializes in planning and designing hospitality facilities, restaurants, bars and hotels in Israel and abroad. The discussion will deal with the relationship between branding, functionality and space. The interior architects will explain the concept of `making the brand present in the space` as well as the interrelationships between the brand and the `user.`
Open discussion. Reservations not required.
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Sabbath Study at Alma
4 Bezalel Yafe St., Tel Aviv
Saturday, May 8th, the hours are in the text
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Throughout the Houses from Within weekend, Alma will open its doors and invite the public to become acquainted with its house from within, including its contents and world. Originally built as a coal and laundry shed in 1920, the house became a four-apartment residence in 1933, and has since 1996 served as a Hebrew culture house as well as a meeting place for general, Israeli and Jewish culture. During the Houses from Within weekend, Alma will hold classes dealing with the concept of "home" in broad cultural contexts, as a metaphor and a foundation for creativity.
On Friday, the house will be open to the public between 14:00 and 18:00 for acquaintance purposes, and on Saturday three lectures will be held.
Saturday, May 8th, 11:00: Prof. Zeli Gurevitz will talk about the home, based on his book "On the Place."
"The question of place begins in the Garden of Eden," writes Gurevitz, an anthropologist who is also a poet. "Right after Adam and Eve eat from the Tree of Knowledge, God fires a question at them while they hide among the Garden`s trees: "Where art thou?" This question heralds the expulsion and the place existing outside the Garden. Thus, the Hebrew, Jewish and Israeli place, which pertains to the country, embodies a complex idea that preceded the story of Canaan."
Saturday, May 8th, 13:00: Ohad Hitman, From Origin to Originality: A New House of Art Inspired by Jewish Origins
The singer, pianist and composer, Ohad Hitman, will talk about his recent work, how he`s been inspired by Jewish source material, and about a piece he composed for Ido Tadmor`s dance performance "Pudra" (Powder), stemming from his personal acquaintance with the Song of Songs.
Saturday, May 8th, 15:00: Yael Fisch: "Between the House and the House of Learning" (in English)
A lecture dealing with the connection between sexual passion and the passion for learning, illustrated through painstaking examination of Babylonian writings whose stories uncover the difficulty and complexity inherent in balancing a man`s obligations as a "scholar" and his obligations as a husband at home.
The lectures are limited to 60 participants, on a first-come, first-served basis.
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S. Horowitz & Co. Law Offices
31 Ahad Ha`am St. and the corner of Yavne St., Tel Aviv
Friday, May 7th, 9:00-16:00
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Original building architects: Huberman, Borner and Stark; and B. Margolin and G. Koigan; the three buildings were constructed in 1926; Renovation architecture: Miriam Meiman and Bruria Shaked-Okon, with the participation of Architect Nina Chernobilski, 2010
A chance to learn about an unusual project that links three buildings designated for preservation (one of them in an eclectic style) in the heart of Tel Aviv. The buildings originally served as residences and commercial establishments. This project seeks to offer a novel solution to the growing need for office space by the S. Horowitz & Co. law firm which currently occupies the buildings, while at the same time incorporating urban preservation concepts and without compromising the relationship between the buildings and the street or the skyline. The final outcome preserves the buildings as "independent entities" after having joined them into a harmonious complex by means of a transparent entrance lobby.
Open house. Reservations not required.
* The tour will only pass through the firm`s public areas. Access to the attorneys` offices will not be permitted. |
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The First International Bank Building
42 Rothschild Blvd. and the corner of Shadal St., Tel Aviv
Friday, May 7th, 10:00,
11:00,
12:00
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Architects: Pei, Cobb, Fried & Partners and Nir-Kotz Architects; Structure: the late Shemaya Ben Avraham; Preservation Architect: Amnon Bar Or, 2009
A tour of one of the most talked about towers recently built in the city, which serves as the headquarters of the First International Bank. The architectural approach that guided the planners of this 32-story building was to pay tribute to Rothschild Boulevard, enabling pedestrians to have an unobstructed view of the adjacent buildings designated for preservation: the Levin House (the former Russian Embassy), the Rivka Grinwald House and the Community Committee`s House. The triangle formed as a result of this unobstructed view was replicated throughout the height of the building as a repetitive geometric solution. The project also entailed renovation and preservation of the Rivka Grinwald House and the Community Committee`s House, which currently serves as the Bank`s main branch. This is one of many projects planned by the building`s architects, the New York firm of Pei, Cobb, Fried & Partners, who also designed the pyramid at the entrance to the Louvre in Paris and other famous edifices worldwide.
The tour will start on the Boulevard, pass through the lobby, stop to observe the works of the artist Nahum Tevet, continue from there up to the tower which also houses an impressive collection of Israeli art, and end with a view of the city from the roof veranda on the 15th floor.
Four tours, each limited to 20 participants.
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Eliyahu Golomb House
23 Rothschild Blvd.
Friday, May 7th, 8:00-13:00
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Architect: Yosef Tischler, 1923; Yochanan Ratner (Museum addition), 1960-1961
A visit at the Golomb residence, which relates both the annals of the family as well as the "Haganah" paramilitary organization that was founded there. Throughout the morning there will be guided tours of the two restored rooms in the family`s home, which are indicative of life in Tel Aviv during the city`s early days.
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Ecological Planning of Rothschild Boulevard
Meeting place: the headstone commemorating Ahuzat Bayit`s founders at the corner of Rothschild Blvd.
Friday, May 7th, 15:30
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Led by Valentina Nelin, a sustainable architecture consultant, the tour will explore the built-up surroundings through a climactic lens and demonstrate how Israel`s most famous boulevard actually serves a model for how to cope with problems related to ventilation, light and shade. The tour lasts about 90 minutes.
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Ohel Moed Synagogue
5 Shadal St., Tel Aviv
Friday, May 7th, 11:00-16:00.
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Architect: Yosef Berlin, 1925
A glimpse of the synagogue that was designed by the architect Yosef Berlin in the 1920s. There is an unusual and splendid domed roof in the middle of the structure, built in the form of 15 steps leading to heaven and symbolizing the 15 steps that were in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, where the 15 "Songs of Ascent" were sung.
The visit includes a tour of the synagogue`s main hall, the area designated for women`s prayer, Rabbi Uziel`s office, as well as stories about Jewish Tel Aviv and the synagogue`s vision.
Guided tours will take place at 11:00, 12:30, 14:00 and 15:30.
* Smoking, photography and cell phone use are prohibited inside the synagogue.
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Israeli Architecture Archives
9 Ahad Ha`am St.
Friday, May 7th. 14:30
and 16:00
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The architect and architecture researcher, Zvi Elhaini, who for more than a decade has been compiling the largest and most comprehensive architectural history collection in Israel, will host a brief tour of the temporary repository of his still evolving archives. The latter are symbolically located in the basement of the Shalom Meir Tower – the tower that was built on the ruins of the city`s first public building: the Herzlyia Gymnasium. Each session lasts about an hour.
Reservations are required for both tours; each is limited to 20 participants.
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Giving Birth to a City
Meeting place: the corner of Herzl St. and Ahad Ha`am St.
Saturday, May 8th, 10:00
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Led by Itzik Dror, this tour designed for families with children aged 6-12 will trace the story of the founding of the first Hebrew city. It will describe how the compact Ahuzat Bayit went from being a neighborhood with only six streets to the `largest city` in Israel. The tour will pass by the city`s first lamppost and its first kiosk as well as other nostalgic spots. The tour will also incorporate various activities and stories.
The tour is sponsored by the Tel-Aviv-Jaffa Tourism Association.
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