Hoopoes in Tel Aviv

The Hoopoes are a small Old World family of two or three species (see below) of similar birds. All have long, thin, and decurved bills; broad round wings; square tails crossed by a wide white band, and long erectile crests. This Madagascar Hoopoe (left) has its crest erected. All species also have dramatic black and white wing patterns (the patterns vary between the species) that show in flight or, as below (same bird as upper left), when the bird is preening. Behaviorally, they remind me (a New World resident) of American flickers. Both hoopoes and flickers appear superficial to be birds of the trees (and both nest in tree cavities), but each spend most of their foraging time on the ground, probing the leaf-litter. Hoopoes are exotic in appearance, but they are open-country birds -- birds of savanna and broken woodlands -- and do not occur in dense jungle (e.g., absent from rain forests of the Congo basin).

 

Gat Cinema

Gat Cinema 62 Ibn Gabirol st. Zeitlin st. Tel Aviv, Israel 

 

 

 

Women cross disengov street

Women cross Disengov street with a cart loaded with bottles 

 

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is Israel’s leading museum of modern and contemporary art, and home to one of the world’s largest collections of Israeli art. Since its founding in 1932, the Museum has served as one of Tel Aviv’s major cultural hubs, displaying a vibrant mix of permanent collections and temporary exhibitions in a wide variety of fields – painting, sculpture, prints and drawings, photography, video, architecture and design. Each year, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art welcomes more than 500,000 visitors, offering them over twenty annual Israeli and international art exhibitions.

Situated in an impressive architectural complex, the Museum is an integral part of the city’s major cultural center – the Golda Meir Cultural and Art Center – home to the Israeli Opera and the Cameri Theater. One of the most diverse and dynamic cultural institutions in Israel, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art serves as a hub of activity for the local arts scene. In addition to its collections, the Museum presents performances of music and dance, film, and lecture series on philosophy and art.

The fully computerized art library and its Documentation Center for Art in Israel serve over 15,000 students, scholars and curators each year. The library subscribes to the major art journals and receives the latest catalogues of exhibitions of Israeli art, modern and contemporary art, photography, design and architecture. It is the most comprehensive reference center in the Middle East.

The Museum’s original building on Rothschild Boulevard has great historical significance: it was there that Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948.

The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, an adjunct to the main building, functions as a showcase and platform for young talents. Opened in 1959, it was beautifully renovated in 1989 with funds provided by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation and the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo. The Danek and Jadzia Gertner Gallery specializes in changing long-term exhibitions of decorative art.

Each week some 1,500 children, youth and adults from all walks of life attend classes in painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, photography, video and computer art, and printmaking at the Museum's Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Art Education Center.

Police station in Shalma street

Police station in Shalma street 

 

Government compound at night

The compound is bordered by Kaplan, Ha'arba'a, Hahashmona'im, and Leonardo Da Vinci streets, and Petah Tikva Road Government compound

 

Azrieli Center Tower at night

The Azrieli Center is the largest shopping center in Tel-Aviv. It is a little overwhelming with its mass of shops, but very convenient.

Azrieli Center Tower at night

The Azrieli Center is a group of three buildings on the east side of Tel-Aviv just off the Ayalon Rd. It serves primarily as a business center, which is the largest in the Middle East, but also offers one of the biggest shopping centers in Israel and an Observatory.

The endless number of shops there can almost make you dizzy, but the selection is amazing and the prices moderate (depending on the shop of course). Here you really can find anything that comes into mind. Also, there is a playing area for children, so you can shop peacefully while leaving your partner with the impatient ones.

There are plenty of coffee shops and small snack stands, but if you are in for a meal you could try 2C restaurant in the Azrieli Observatory.

some streets in Tel Aviv

Ben Guryon avenue

Disengov - Ben Guryon avenue


Ben Yehuda street

Sheinkin - Rotshild