Theme Week Tel Aviv – The Rothschild Boulevard
Monday, 18 January 2016 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante General , Union for the Mediterranean
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Rothschild Boulevard is one of the principal streets in the center of
Tel Aviv , beginning in
Neve Tzedek at its southwestern edge and running north to
Habima Theatre . It is one of the most expensive streets in the city, being one of the city’s main tourist attractions. It features a wide, tree-lined central strip with pedestrian and bike lanes. Rothschild Boulevard was the epicenter of the
2011 Israeli social justice protests .
Rothschild Boulevard was initially called “Street of the people”. Later, the residents requested it to be renamed in honor of Baron Edmond James de Rothschild . One house, on the corner of Rothschild Boulevard and Herzl Street, was built in 1909 by the Eliavson family, one of Tel Aviv’s sixty founding families. In 2007, the building was purchased and restored by the Institut Français .
Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv © Degser/cc-by-sa-3.0
Israel’s Declaration of Independence was signed at
Independence Hall on Rothschild Boulevard. Many of the historic buildings are built in the
Bauhaus or
International style , forming part of the
White City of Tel Aviv , a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site. The 1925 Lederberg house, at the intersection of
Allenby Street features a series of large ceramic murals designed by
Ze’ev Raban a member of the
Bezalel school . The four murals show a Jewish pioneer sowing and harvesting, a shepherd and Jerusalem, with a verse from Jeremiah 31:4, “
Again I will rebuild thee and thou shalt be rebuilt. ”
In 1995, the municipality held an architectural competition to design avenues. The architect
Moti Bodek suggested using existing avenues ring as a backbone system consists of pedestrian ways and bicycle paths, target the urban activities of leisure sports and recreation along with restoration and rehabilitation of historic kiosks. The Boulevard is an arts district, with galleries including
Alon Segev Gallery , and
Sommer Contemporary Art .
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