Tel Aviv Untold

Tel Aviv Untold Fascinating stories of Tel Aviv’s history and architecture

This is May, 1st, 1949. Tel Aviv goes crazy demonstrating with lenin and stalin
01/05/2023

This is May, 1st, 1949. Tel Aviv goes crazy demonstrating with lenin and stalin

Nelly Baruch a.k.a. Borisovna, Balalaika ensemble, and others taking part in a matinee performance 80 years ago at Mogra...
24/03/2023

Nelly Baruch a.k.a. Borisovna, Balalaika ensemble, and others taking part in a matinee performance 80 years ago at Mograbi Cinema at Allenby street. 1943 should have been the year of victory

Tel Aviv is a square though a very open city. Here is another proof of that: a closed box open wide by
22/03/2023

Tel Aviv is a square though a very open city. Here is another proof of that: a closed box open wide by

Joseph Berlin’s eclectic style mixed with local art deco in his private house at Rothschild 64. These pictures were made...
21/03/2023

Joseph Berlin’s eclectic style mixed with local art deco in his private house at Rothschild 64. These pictures were made by an amazingly talented photographer Eugeny Petrushansky .lib who is currently exhibited at .gallery , don’t miss it!

Ci******es and newspapers: they go together well but we can’t buy any of a kind in the street anymore. This is Allenby, ...
20/03/2023

Ci******es and newspapers: they go together well but we can’t buy any of a kind in the street anymore. This is Allenby, 30, Tel Aviv, 1962

This photo by Willem van de Poll, the photographer who documented the Warsaw Ghetto and the Sudetenland, then was appointed the official photographer of the Dutch royal family and still traveled a lot to Israel and loved taking pictures of Tel Aviv of the 1960s

We know Purim’s over but couldn’t help posting this fabulous photo: Purim Parade 1968, the mascots of Saddam Husein (?) ...
19/03/2023

We know Purim’s over but couldn’t help posting this fabulous photo: Purim Parade 1968, the mascots of Saddam Husein (?) and Gamal Abdel Nasser are floating over the crowd. Ibn Gvirol 123, Tel-Aviv

Winston Churchill visited Tel Aviv in 1921 being Secretary of State for the Colonies. The city was still young, and its ...
13/10/2022

Winston Churchill visited Tel Aviv in 1921 being Secretary of State for the Colonies. The city was still young, and its newly planted trees were not yet full grown. Mayor Dizengoff invented a Potyomkin-village-plan

He sent his men to Mikveh Israel, the first Jewish agricultural school, and assigned them to cut their beautiful trees at night and to bring them to Tel Aviv. The trees without roots were simply stuck into the middle of Rothschild Boulevard.

Reportedly, Churchill was amazed at the sight of such lush development having taken place in such a very short time. But he burst into laughter after local children climbed the trees for a look at the respected visitor – and the trees collapsed.

- There’s no luck here for anyone without roots, - he said (yeah, there are many quotes attributed to Churchill that he never said, but who cares!)

In photo, there are Churchill and Dizengoff, and a girl, Tehila Gilutz, who has died recently at the age of 106.

Giving out ice in Tel Aviv. These boys definitely love it1936
06/10/2022

Giving out ice in Tel Aviv. These boys definitely love it

1936

After the boisterous modernist 1930s Tel Aviv’s architectural fame went far beyond the Middle East. The N***s who (by a ...
20/09/2022

After the boisterous modernist 1930s Tel Aviv’s architectural fame went far beyond the Middle East. The N***s who (by a coincidence of course) hated both modernism and Jews, made an antisemitic caricature of Weissenhof Estate. A modernist housing estate built for the 1927 Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Stuttgart appeared to look exactly like Tel Aviv. Some German photo artist populated it with camels and people in white clothes. Haha, lovely joke… Swiping left you can see the original Stuttgart exhibition

The Italian touch doesn’t always have to be Roman or Palladian. Take a look at the Cymbalista synagogue built by the Swi...
19/09/2022

The Italian touch doesn’t always have to be Roman or Palladian. Take a look at the Cymbalista synagogue built by the Swiss architect Mario Botta in 1998

Professor Anat Helman, who we mentioned earlier, tells another story about Austerity (the policy of food rationing impos...
22/07/2022

Professor Anat Helman, who we mentioned earlier, tells another story about Austerity (the policy of food rationing imposed from 1949 to 1959):

The objection to invasive rationing supervision was widespread among Israelis, and so when inspectors boarded buses, looking for chickens and eggs smuggled from the countryside to the cities, many passengers joined in a collective “hens’ clucking,” thus helping the culprits conceal real chickens.

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