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No fives, no politics, no nerves: a wonderful seven and a doctor set out on a mission
One of the most popular restaurants in Tel Aviv has become a safe haven for food and comfort in recent months, with a lighthouse shining with optimism
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Assaf Doctor
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Yaniv Granot
Friday, January 15, 2021, 6 p.m.
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At the end, and no matter how much everyone tried to avoid it, dancing around the word, skipping it elegantly, it all starts and ends with fives.
Begins with "five-trays" that have been mockingly turned into a Balfouri code, a means of reducing corruption charges.
And ended up in the aluminum boxes - uniform in design, uniform in level - distributed by the Tel Aviv Municipality in the first closure.
In the middle, between the capital and the capital in its own right, the foundation of all this dilapidated structure has been swayed for more than a year, sometimes jokingly called "the authorities' confrontation with the corona."
And when buildings are undermined, when a vacuum is created, people enter.
humans.
Undress pompous statements and roll up your sleeves, melt suspicious looks and scrub cynically.
In essence - feed, and if you need five-course meals, have them in five-course meals.
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A rising and rising need.
"Solidarity Restaurants" Program, "Ivy" Restaurant
1/5 (Photo: Reuven Castro)
“I came from the US before the first closure and saw a lot of favorite restaurants closed.
Places that know how to cook and know how to cook well, are completely disabled.
I also saw people in need of food, and a growing need "
The "Restaurants in Solidarity" program, the little sister of "Culture of Solidarity", was born, like quite a few other social initiatives here, out of a sober look at Israeli chaos.
"Volunteers who have organized in the face of the Corona crisis to help those most vulnerable among us," as her principals put it, "those whose most basic needs are not being met."
What started as the first wave of infection as an initiative to save food from restaurants and distribute it throughout the country, has grown from wave to wave, and is now slipping into the stormy sea of Israeli welfare policy, changing direction but not losing focus.
"I came from the United States before the first closure, I looked around and saw a lot of favorite restaurants, some of which belong to friends, closed. Places that know how to cook and know how to cook well, are completely disabled," Alma Beck, the program's founder, told Walla!
NEWS, "I also saw people in need of food, and a growing need."
Beck and her friends were inspired by the American "World Central Kitchen" project, in which Chef Jose establishes "field kitchens" in the most disastrous areas in existence, from hurricane-hit towns to distressed neighborhoods that have succumbed to the virus.
Here, they soon realized, a hurricane might not pass, but it would take years to repair the storm damage.
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Longing for the beautiful Israeli.
Doctor (Photo: Reuven Castro)
"I realized I was less about constantly saying what's wrong and what's wrong, and more about showing a different side of society."
The "Ivy" restaurant, led by the brothers Assaf and Yotam Doctor, has joined the program for the past three months, in a pilot that over time has thrown a human anchor around the city.
The format is simple - civic donations fund a sick leave of staff from the restaurant (in this case, about 4 jobs) who are all dedicated to the project, but the operation is complex - cooking about a thousand dishes for about 140 supporters, "Probably not), is the big difference between Andreas and the Doctor, between the United States and Israel, between federal dollars and private shekels.
" It was clear to me that it suits us, that it is something that is already within the group's basket of values, "said Dr." Welfare fails to meet demand "And it's an amazing civic organization."
A few months after he nervously went up to Balfour and shared food with passersby - "social activity with a slightly defiant face," as he put it, Doctor decided to change direction. "I realized I was less about constantly saying what's wrong and what's wrong. , And more in the matter of showing another side of the company.
At the value level, what leads us is a mutual guarantee and the desire to bring back to consciousness and discourse the 'beautiful Israeli'. "
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Decent, fresh and quality food.
Ivy Restaurant (Photo: Reuven Castro)
"We said we do not want to be a food factory or a tavern, but to listen to people, and in the future also see the faces."
We sit in the outer plaza of "Ivy", a routine urban oasis happy, between hills of colorful and trendy "Tnuva" crates and folded chairs in each corner.
The outdoor shed is open for the Israeli summer-January, the kitchen works - grill, stoves and everything - and only the restaurant's long bar betrays the situation, almost kneeling under the piles of packed plastic boxes waiting to be shipped.
The composition of the meals is relatively dynamic, based on a Mediterranean diet and built by the nutritionist Rakla Ben Altbet.
Lentil soup, pasta in tomato sauce, patties and schnitzel, fresh vegetables.
"We were looking for an intention, with the aim of providing people with decent, fresh and quality food, meals with nutritional values in each of which can be found all the nutrients."
Doctor talks and walks around with a little girl in his arms - a year old birthday this weekend, say congratulations - in what is a very representative case of the current restaurant reality in Israel, but also an ultimate proportion to what is important.
"The main thing for me in this venture is community, and that's where it goes. We said in advance that we do not want to be a food factory or a tavern, but to listen to people, and in the future also see the faces. A Holocaust survivor, for example, who gets a bun on Friday instead of challah. "Can bear the thought of throwing away food. That's the power of the project."
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Meet the right need.
Chernov (Photo: Reuven Castro)
"We are helping something like 140 people, but maybe everyone should take a look aside, to the immediate community, and start understanding what needs to be done and what will help."
The attentive ears belong to Liran Chernov, a shift manager at Ivy who has become a community manager in the venture, or in other words - the man who talks to the supporters every week.
"It started as lunch boxes with numbers and stickers, but from the moment I actually started talking to them, I discovered the characters behind each address, and all their stories," he described, "and now a personal connection has been made."
Chernov calls everyone, collects feedback and comments, comments and personal experiences.
Some of the conversations are informative, and some go far beyond the boundaries of the project.
"It's disproportionate, of course. I'm not blind to the reality we live in, but it's sad to know that there are so many people who need help, and the state is unable to reach everyone, or does not know how to meet the right need. Some people, for example, do not know what to do with groceries. "Dry because they do not know how to cook. And that's the big thing about the project. We're helping something like 140 people, but maybe everyone should look a little bit aside, to the immediate community, and start understanding what needs to be done and what will help."
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Spread out and move on.
Left: Karni, Harlap, Oren and Beck (Photo: Reuven Castro)
This community circle is closed with TAKE, the courier company that delivers meals to homes, and operates on the basis of a worldview of economic profit that is equivalent to community profit.
"We have a lot of ambitions and plans," said Lilach Karni, the program's director. "We started with Ivy, but we hope to spread and continue, even outside of Tel Aviv. The idea is to create more and more communities, and thus help all the links in the chain."
Goni Harlap came to this project out of a burning need "to provide a more permanent and more stable response to a need that arises again and again, and is left unresolved at the moment, in hot meals."
She estimates that the economic corona, by definition, "will stay with us for a long time to come," and hopes the program will be able to bolster both restaurants "that have gone through an economic disaster that will take time to recover from" and "people who will need this service" in the foreseeable future.
"The circle that drives the economy and drives workers and drives community involvement immediately caught me," said Avital Oren. "It changes the concept of giving and creates a slightly different connection. Not someone anonymous who is being donated something, but a person we know and know who it is. There is something more here. "We are starting to know about birthdays, for example, and that's what's magical to me."
The group of women who run the program - seven in number, including Aya Hecht, Ayelet Carmeli Messinger and Roni Rosenberg Tzeder who were not interviewed for the article - sit around a round table in the same apocalyptic plaza of "Ivy" and pay attention to thick notebooks, even thicker lists and huge ambitions, which everyone probably needs Be a partner in them, to one degree or another.
"You can empower people, give them strength, tell them you're still human, and you're still allowed to have certain preferences when you sit down to eat, despite all the difficulty," Beck concluded, "There are a lot of emotional things in food that are important for us to strengthen. Communication and trust with the people. "
For more details and information on donations to the "Restaurants in Solidarity" program - click here, or via email restaurantsinsolidarity@gmail.com
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