Shabbat Shalom!

It´s late Friday afternoon, slowly it´s getting dark and the busy, noisy city of Tel Aviv is preparing for Shabbat. The buses stop going, mostly all of the shops and many restaurants are closing and at home the Halah bread lies on the kitchen table…

In the morning, our pupils still rushed through the streets: “Schnitzeljagd” – the Israelis liked this word a lot and started laughing, when they heard it, thinking of a hunt for a huge “Schnitzel”. On their photo rally the pupils went to several interesting spots in Tel Aviv: They started at the Independence Hall, went to the Cinema Hotel at Dizengoff Square (a beautiful Bauhaus building, in former times a cinema), they saw the place where Yitzhak Rabin was shot in 1995, strolled over the Carmel Market and ended the tour at the small photo shop of Ben Weissenstein and his grandmother. Her husband, Rudi Weissenstein, took the famous picture of David Ben-Gurion declaring the Independence of Israel in 1948. The story of Ben, his grandma and their old, wonderful shop is told in the documentary “Life in stills” by Tamar Tal. We watched that film all together in Overath, preparing our own documentary. 

This is us at Pri-Or Photo House

And last but not least each group produced a small photo story, in which the pupils had to add three very typical things here in Tel Aviv: the Rothshild Boulevard, a café and a cat. So today, the winning team proudly presents its photo story on our blog: