We visited Tel Aviv on October 31, a
Shabbat, and passed the site where on November 4, 20 years ago, Israel's great hope for peace, Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin, was murdered by a right-wing Israeli.
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| Kids studying the tragic event |
The preparation of commemoration ceremonies for the coming Sunday, November 1, was in full swing:
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| Bill adjusting Yitzhak's tie |
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| Yitzhak and Moshe |
Starting at the Habima Theatre, we walked up Rothschild Boulevard (שְׂדֵרוֹת רוֹטשִׁילד, Sderot Rotshild). Many of the historic buildings along the axis are built in the Bauhaus style and are part of the White City of Tel Aviv, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site.
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| Beautiful promenade |
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| Redecorated Bauhaus style |
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Sitting on an art object?
Note my sandals worn throughout my stay in the Holy Land |
In a restaurant on Sderot Rothschild where I had a frugal lunch, the one, and only hand-washing facility was used by both sexes. While a mirror deprived me of vis-à-vis female faces, hands were clearly visible.
After lunch, we went down to the district Neve Tzedek at Tel Aviv's southwestern edge.
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| The tenant of this original kiosk will move to Lilienblum 16 |
Neve Tzedek was established in 1887, 22 years before the 1909 founding of the City of Tel Aviv, by a group of German Jewish families who moved to the site leaving an overcrowded Jaffa.
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| Memories of "Hauserbaugeselschaft" with the school for girls |
The settlers constructed the new quarter with low-rise buildings along narrow streets. Their homes frequently incorporated design elements from the Jugendstil/Art Nouveau and later Bauhaus art.
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| Strange decorations, including half a skull on the corner of Shalom Shabazi Street |
At the nearby waterfront, we met the head of the Tel Aviv Sister City Office, where I had expected a more formal reception (Never on
Shabbats!)
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| Mr. x (I have forgotten his name) and Johannes, our guide |
Before we reached our hotel, Red Baron stepped off the bus and went straight to the beach, bathing his feet in the Mediterranean Sea.
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| Barefoot in the Mediterranean Sea |
Against a low sun, kite surfers profited from the offshore wind ...
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| Kite-surfers against the sun |
while I went to the terrace of a nearby hotel, drinking my first Israeli beer...
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| Maccabee Lager |
... watching a beautiful sunset.
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