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"A piece of history that will disappear": a well-known restaurant in Tel Aviv is closing its doors Israel today

2022-11-29T13:51:57.900Z


The "Halev HaRahav" restaurant that has been operating in the city's vineyard since 1965 - will be closed in favor of a residential building • One of the employees: "Residents react as if someone has died, God forbid" • The full article in the "Shishab" supplement


The oldest restaurant in the Yemenite vineyard, and one of the oldest in Tel Aviv and in Israel, "The Wide Heart", will close its doors at the end of the calendar year.

The restaurant, which has been open continuously since 1965, was vacated by a buyer who bought the entire building and will build a residential building on it.

In addition, due to the fact that this is one of the last restaurants still working in Kerem Hatiman and Tel Aviv on a charcoal grill, which is gradually being discontinued by the municipality that wants to switch everything to gas, the restaurant will most likely not open in a new location and will close its doors after 57 years.

If so, Tel Aviv will lose one of its culinary symbols in a month.

"People to whom we announce that we are closing the restaurant, God forbid, react as if someone has died," says Avital, who has been working there for the past 25 years: "I am the last Yemenite left in the Yemeni vineyard, when we close there will be no more Yemenis left. After the Yemenis left, after Samson Tel Aviv It disappeared, now the 'wide heart' will disappear and a piece of history of the city of Tel Aviv will disappear along with it. In the current era in Tel Aviv, the powerful and the rich survive."

The complex where the "Helav HaRav" restaurant was bought and where a residential building will be built, photo: Efrat Eshel

The "Shishab" supplement of "Israel Hayom" last week accompanied the owners and employees of the restaurant and the customers who found it difficult to say goodbye to the beloved restaurant and returned with them and the residents of the neighborhood to the history of the restaurant: how her beloved Ozeri prepared skewers, Beaz Sharabi was a kitchen worker, Hapoel Tel Aviv celebrated victories, and the table of the most powerful tycoons in the economy, who come once a month to eat.

The full story on Friday in the "Shishab" supplement

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Source: israelhayom

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