So after breakfast at the Golden Beach Hotel in Tel-Aviv we drove to an elementary school in Bat Yam. Something like 50% of the student body are immigrants from Ethiopia and the school has implemented an after school program to help these kids catch up with their education. We were supposed to each get a kid from the 4th grade class and together we made care packages for soldiers. I didn't actually get a kid so I helped out with translating.
Afterwards we drove to Yitzhak Rabin square to view his memorial. He was assassinated in 1995 by
Yigal Amir, a far-right-wing religious Zionist who strenuously opposed Rabin's peace initiative and particularly the signing of the Oslo Accords.
This is an engraving of the scene of the murder. Rabin is in the centre and Amir was less than 6 feet from him when he fired the shots.
The man himself.
We then drove to Jaffa for lunch and a tour around the old port.
My Fluevog Jaffa boots standing on Jaffa stones.
It rained. Heavily.
Jaffa cat.
Ancient Egyptian ruins found in Jaffa.
Crazy, floating orange tree and Noam.
I love Napoleon.
Jaffa was an Arab port city that most immigrants to Israel landed in before spreading into the country. Now it's a part of Tel-Aviv. You can see the city in the background as well as the sea break.
Following that we walked down Rothschild Boulevard to Independence Hall. The building is also a museum of history. It was the first mayor of Tel-Aviv, Meir Dizengoff's, home which he donated to Tel-Aviv to be the Museum of Art. The portrait in the centre is Theodor Herzl, the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the State of Israel.
David Ben Gurion.
At the end of the day we drove to the Sde Boker field school in the Negev near the kibbutz of the same name where Ben Gurion for the last years of his life establishing the National Water Carrier to bring water to the barren area.
Afterwards we drove to Yitzhak Rabin square to view his memorial. He was assassinated in 1995 by Yigal Amir, a far-right-wing religious Zionist who strenuously opposed Rabin's peace initiative and particularly the signing of the Oslo Accords.
This is an engraving of the scene of the murder. Rabin is in the centre and Amir was less than 6 feet from him when he fired the shots.
The man himself.
We then drove to Jaffa for lunch and a tour around the old port.
My Fluevog Jaffa boots standing on Jaffa stones.
It rained. Heavily.
Jaffa cat.
Ancient Egyptian ruins found in Jaffa.
Crazy, floating orange tree and Noam.
I love Napoleon.
Jaffa was an Arab port city that most immigrants to Israel landed in before spreading into the country. Now it's a part of Tel-Aviv. You can see the city in the background as well as the sea break.
Following that we walked down Rothschild Boulevard to Independence Hall. The building is also a museum of history. It was the first mayor of Tel-Aviv, Meir Dizengoff's, home which he donated to Tel-Aviv to be the Museum of Art. The portrait in the centre is Theodor Herzl, the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the State of Israel.
David Ben Gurion.
At the end of the day we drove to the Sde Boker field school in the Negev near the kibbutz of the same name where Ben Gurion for the last years of his life establishing the National Water Carrier to bring water to the barren area.
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