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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Tel Aviv Museum
Tel Aviv Museum is a very important museum in the field of the plastic art. In the Tel Aviv Museum you can find routine and changing exhibitions of modern art, photography, architecture and design, drawing and print, and art from the 16 hundred AD until nowadays. The exhibitions are placed in the museum building (in Shaul Hamelech Street) and in Helena Rubinstein House (near Habima Theatre and Heichal Hatarbut). The routine exhibitions include works of Israeli well known painters and …
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Bialik House
Bialik House was the house of the national poet and writer of Israel, Haim Nahman Bialik. Nowadays the place is a museum, archive, and library. Bialik had a strong connection to Tel-Aviv and he built his house in 1926 near the house of the municipality of Tel-Aviv then. Bialik died in 1934. In 1937 his widow decided to donate the house to The Association of Bialik House, which their job was to take care of the house. After a short …
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Ben-Gurion House
Ben-Gurion House was built in Tel Aviv, between the years 1930 – 1931. Pola, and her husband David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of Israel, bought the house and lived there for many years. The place was enlarged in 1946 and was renovated again in 1960. The house was used to be their permanent house until they moved to their shed in Sde-Boker (in the Negev). Afterwards the house was used to be their home again along with their shed …
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Eretz Israel Museum – Israel Museum
Eretz Israel Museum (in English – The Museum of The State of Israel) is a big museum in Tel-Aviv, presents findings about the state of Israel from different periods. The museum was established in 1958 near Tel-Kasila (a place where important archeology items and findings was found from the 11 hundred AD and from the 12 hundred AD). In the museum you will find different sites witch deal with varied issues, like: judaica, archeology, folklore, historic culture, ethnography, and Israeli …
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Beth Hatefutsoth Museum
Beth Hatefutsoth Museum, is placed in the campus of Tel-Aviv University and was the first museum that presented the history of the Jewish people and the donation of the Jewish people to the creativity and human culture. The museum was established in 1978 and describes a period of more then two thousand years in Jewish history. In the museum you will find drawings, films and other kinds of presentations that describe different issues from different periods.
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Jaffa Harbor
Jaffa Harbor is located under and a bit south to the old city of Jaffa. Jaffa Harbor is considered as one of the oldest harbors in the world. Jaffa Harbor was mentioned first in Bible as a place which Yona ran away through to Tarshish. Today the harbor is mostly hosting some yachts and children from Tel Aviv are studying to sail.
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Rabin Square (“Kikar Rabin”)
Rabin Square is the central square of Tel-Aviv and it is placed south to the municipality of Tel-Aviv in Even-Gvirol Street. The name of the square was changed in 1995 from “Kikar Malchey Israel” to “Kikar Rabin” in memory of Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister of Israel in 1995. Yitzhak Rabin was murdered in this square by the night of the 4 of November 1995.
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The Promenade of Tel-Aviv
The Promenade of Tel Aviv (in Hebrew – “Tayelet Tel-Aviv”) is undergoing by the sea beach of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa in Herbert Samuel Street (in the central part of the Promenade). In the north part of the Promenade you can find Tel-Aviv Harbor, and in the south part you can find Jaffa Harbor. Near the Promenade of Tel-Aviv you can find many of the exclusive hotels of Tel-Aviv, restaurants, well kept beaches, coffee shops, pubs, clubs, and other attractions. This place constitutes …
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Haatzmaut Garden (Independence Park)
Haatzmaut Garden or Independence Park (in Hebrew – “Gan Haatzmaut”) is a public park near the sea beach of Tel-Aviv, between Atarim Square (“Kikar Atarim”) to Nordau Street (“Shderot Nordau”). The literal meaning of “Haatzmaut” from Hebrew is “The independence”. The area of the garden is sprawl under 150 dunams. The garden was designed by very well known international architects, and is considered one of the very old and beautiful gardens in Tel-Aviv. In this garden you can see many …
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Tel-Aviv Harbor
Tel Aviv Harbor (in Hebrew – “Namal Tel-Aviv”) was build in 1936 in the outflow of the Hayarkon river into the sea. It was the first Jewish Harbor in Israel, while Israel was in a process of building and definition. The building of the Harbor was a very important step for the Israeli people that had a mission to build a Hebrew country, without the need to do it by violence. Nowadays, the Harbor is used as a central place …
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