In honor of Neve Shalom`s 120<sup>th</sup> anniversary (Tel Aviv`s second oldest neighborhood), the Society for Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites, in conjunction with the Neve Tzedek synagogue rescue action committee, will hold tours of selected heritage sites in the neighborhood, among them the Sha`arei Torah complex, the Russian Autonomy, the Habad synagogue, the Hevrat Shas synagogue, Zerach Brandt`s house, Rabbi Kook`s house, et al. All are important historical sites, but some are in danger and their future will be determined in the coming months.

The photographer Lionel Darmon, who specializes in documenting architectural projects and cultural heritage preservation in Israel and around the world, will hold a special workshop dealing with documentary photography of historic homes. It will take place in Neve Tzedek and explore different perspectives of preserved and restored homes. The workshop, which lasts 2½ hours, is sponsored by the Site Preservation Council and ICOMOS Israel.

* Participants should come equipped with a digital camera.

The tour department of the Society for Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites invites the public to take part in tours of the historic train station where preservation and restoration works are still underway.

The Society for Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites invites the public to a traditional construction technologies happening where it will be possible to watch preservation experts at work and learn about the challenges faced by those engaged in preservation. Experts from "Arco" Ltd. will demonstrate traditional construction technologies that make use of plaster and stone (www.arco.co.il). Shai Farkash and painters from "Tchelet" Ltd. will present technologies used to uncover wall decorations as well as those used to renovate and restore them.

The tour lasts about three hours and will end with a garden party at 2 Pinsker St.

Yad Eliyahu is the city`s largest residential neighborhood and constitutes a "living museum" of residential typologies characterizing modern planning approaches in the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Led by Danny Lazar, who formulated the Yad Eliyahu policy plan, the architects Udi Carmeli, from the eastern planning team, and Doron Minin, from the Tel-Aviv-Yafo Municipality`s Buildings Preservation Department, the tour will present the new planning approaches for Yad Eliyahu currently under review, which are based on social fabric and community preservation as a controlled development tool. The tour will also include meetings with some veteran residents of the neighborhood and present the municipal Planning Division`s directions regarding the neighborhood`s future plans.

A chance to become acquainted with an experimental living style adopted by the artist Rotem Ritov: in a store designed as an apartment, whose living room serves as contemporary art gallery. The space was inspired by the author Robert Sterling who defined intimacy as the feeling of closeness and connection that exists between two people and the desire to be totally open with one another. An installation by Nir Segal made of chairs and built in relation to space will be on display during the Houses from Within weekend.

Architects: Tsionov-Vitkon, 2010; Acoustics and studio design: David Hogga

A tour of this former shoe factory that was converted into recording studios, among the most sophisticated of their kind in Israel and worldwide. The main planning challenge of this project was to adapt the existing building to a complex blueprint that necessitated meeting high acoustic standards. The tours will include sound demonstrations at the different studios and an explanation of the recording process.

Led by the architect Amnon Bar Or, the tour will trace the transformations of Yerushalayim Blvd. since it was designed in the middle of the 20^th century – then called Jamal Pasha Blvd. The tour begins with a general explanation and continues on foot all along the Boulevard, from north to south. It ends up at the Dajani (Zahalon) Hospital complex on the corner of Yerushalayim Blvd. and Dr. Ehrlich St. The tour lasts about two hours.

 

Tali Wexler from the Braudo-Maoz landscape architecture firm, which is responsible for landscape planning at the American Colony, will lead a tour of the preservation project underway at this historic-tourist complex. She`ll recount the story of the colony`s establishment in 1866 by Americans belonging to a devout, Zion-loving Christian sect and how the colony has evolved since then. The tour will address issues related to preservation, adaptation to contemporary uses, and links with adjacent complexes. The tour lasts about an hour.

Three tours with Orna Givon that will pass through the Flea Market and also stop at two houses she designed – one on Raziel St. and the other on Hamigdalor St.