Quentin Tarantino buys $13.8 million property in Tel Aviv

American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and his wife, Israeli singer and actress Daniella Pick, have paid some NIS 50 million ($13.8 million) for two plots in the northern Tel Aviv neighborhood of Tel Baruch where they plan to build a new home, according to a report in Israeli financial daily Globes.

The plots, at the corner of Yaakov and Maskit Street, total 2,200 square meters (23,680 square feet), in a neighborhood that is undergoing rapid gentrification, Globes said. The couple currently lives in a rented apartment near Kikar HaMedina.

Tarantino rose to fame in the 1990s with his hit movies “Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction,” and has received widespread critical acclaim for his distinctive filmmaking style that blends sharp dialogue, nonlinear storytelling, and stylized violence. His other hit films include “Kill Bill,” “Inglourious Basterds,” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

Tarantino splits his time between Tel Aviv and Hollywood, and has described his time in Israel as peaceful and fulfilling, offering him a balance between his public career and private family life. He and Pick married in a Jewish wedding ceremony in 2018 and have two children together.

“When I’m in America, I’m writing. When I’m in Israel? I’m an abba, which means father,” Tarantino told an audience at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

Tarantino is a respected figure in Israel’s cinema scene and has supported Israeli soldiers with solidarity visits to IDF bases in the weeks after October 7, 2023.