Oh others were so nights of Tel Aviv ya brother, wrote Nathan Alterman and perfect performer Arik Einstein, in "Song about the Child Nissim." To this song I owe a critical detail in rooted Tel Aviv trivia - if you ask after whom Dizengoff Square is named, you can run through the wonderful house in your head: "Therefore today my heart goes out / To Mograbi's lantern / And to the lantern of the beach square, / And Zina Dizengoff Square."
"What was is not what will be": Women march in Bnei Brak against the phenomenon of exclusion // Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon
Yes, the square is named after her. The street is named after him. Parity. They had no children, but they had a wonderful Jewish home. Today it is called "Independence House" because David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of the State of Israel, chose to declare the establishment of the state in the home of the first mayor of the State of Tel Aviv, the first Hebrew city.
The square is named after her, the street is named after him. Parity. They had no children, but they had a wonderful Jewish home. In Pashkeville in 1933, Dizengoff demanded that cafes ("especially those on the beach") operate only during the hours agreed upon between the municipality and the Chief Rabbinate
After Tzina's death, the famous widower laid the foundation for the construction of the main square that bears her name, and also decided to turn their home into the first art museum in Tel Aviv. If you pass by today you will see a bronze statue of a horse, the sculpted figure of Meir Dizengoff riding on it, waving goodbye. And if you want another national symbol, their marriage lasted 48 years.
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Luckily, I was born and raised in Tel Aviv. When we were children, driving on Shabbat was part of the family menu, but to visit our grandparents who lived next door, we walked so as not to miss the colorful Dizengoff Street, where every Saturday in the 80s, police checkpoints enclosed both ends to block traffic and allow the secular masses to walk around, drink coffee and buy cotton candy near the Rav-Chen Cinema.
This was, in fact, the legacy of Dizengoff, who exactly 100 years ago, in 1923, was faced with the issue of desecrating the Sabbath, which was agitated when the British Mandate decided to unite the city's neighborhoods into a single municipal unit. The ultra-Orthodox demanded that Shabbat be designated as the main day of rest and that a municipal bylaw be passed so that wagons and carriages would not pass, the secularists were angry because what should it be that the Dusis set conditions on the way to municipal unification, and Dizengoff begged them to let go of this issue and focus on matters of elections and local politics.
Standing at the siren in Dizengoff Square, photo: Yehoshua Yosef
After representatives of the neighborhoods insisted on discussing the burning issue, Rabbi Kook initiated a compromise, according to which "in the entire area of Tel Aviv... The sanctity of the religious Sabbath also has civil legal validity with regard to public and public affairs." Dizengoff brought the compromise proposal to a vote of the Grand Committee of Tel Aviv.
The proposal was passed by a majority vote, but among the Jews the last word will forever be one before the last but not least, and that too is temporary.
For ten years the business was bubbling, and in 1933 Dizengoff, who was born in Zhytomyr and was full of sentiment for Jewish character in his city and full of fear of brotherly hatred that would collapse the small empire that was emerging, published one of the original peshqvils that a Tel Aviv elected official had ever drafted.
In the official announcement aimed at straightening out the social loosening, he chastised the new immigrants who are not familiar with the city's laws, and the veteran residents who do not sufficiently guard the public space: "From public platforms, including the stage of the municipal council, several have appealed to the Tel Aviv public to refrain from desecrating the Sabbath in public, which offends the feelings of the ultra-Orthodox public in the city as well as Tel Aviv's good name as a purely Hebrew city."
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Dizengoff concluded the Pashkeville, which requires automobiles not to travel in the city on Jewish holidays, and cafes ("especially those on the beach") to operate only during the hours agreed between the municipality and the Chief Rabbinate, with the call "Keep the Sabbath and it will protect us."
Closing prayer at Dinzgoff Square to the voice of the protesters // Avi Cohen
The local trend has been moving in an unmistakable direction for years. Bialik pleaded, Dizengoff put his finger in the dam, Cheech also opened cinemas and theaters on Saturday. Politics and respect for tradition are used interchangeably. Between the Oslo period and Rabin's assassination, very religious families arrived in Tel Aviv and established closed communities.
Between Kings of Israel Square and Ichilov Hospital, Rabbi Goren led the synagogue worshippers to Simchat Torah circles in the middle of the road. One taxi driver stopped his car, got out of the car and began taunting. The rabbi approached him and handed over the Torah scroll
A young rabbi who emigrated from one of the established communities in Samaria gave a seminar to the ninth grade where I studied, and when we asked him as part of breaking the distancing where his children study, he replied that the little ones are in separate independent or religious education, and he sends his older children to ulpanim and high school yeshivas outside the city. "The religious people here are not really religious," he told us, and we were terribly offended. Not that we held on so much from our high school, but what - we don't deserve to be in the same class as his daughters? We too are religious Zionists. And how will you disseminate Torah if you declare separatism in advance?
During Simchat Torah laps 30 years ago, the first military rabbi, Major General Rabbi Shlomo Goren, led a convoy of Torah scrolls from the synagogue he headed to the nearby street. Between the Square of the Kings of Israel (at the time) and Ichilov Hospital, the regular synagogue worshippers danced, among them regular dosim, millionaires who loved to come to prayer on Fridays and holidays, secular parents who did not give up jumping with their children in "Mephi El" and just people who fantasized about the haring after.
Everyone followed the rabbi and danced in the middle of the road. Vehicles parked on the side and watched, or took alternate routes. One taxi driver stopped, got out of the car and started shouting. Rabbi Goren, who did not stop singing, approached and handed him a Torah scroll. The driver, who did not stop sneering, grabbed a book, followed the rabbi, and suddenly we realized that the movement had changed and so had the sound - he joined the circle. Everyone knows the words of "King David of Israel."
There were no partitions at this event, no smartphones to report venom, nor pretensions. There were remnants of a house estate.
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