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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 465

Florentin

One of the 38 Tel Aviv Walls of Hope street paintings curated by street artist yamb0x.eth with Free Our Kids IL, in effort to create international pressure to free the 38 children held hostage by Hamas since October 7, 2023 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
November 21, 2023, 4:47 pm
Street artists paint Tel Aviv wall murals about child hostages
Free Our Kids IL and artist Yamb0x.eth collaborate on Walls of Hope street paintings in Florentin neighborhood
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: A digital rendering of a development plan to build a complex of four mixed-use buildings, including a 17-story tower and a residential building of 200 apartments in Tel Aviv's bohemian Florentin neighborhood, December 2022. (Cityel/Florentin Square/3DVision Ltd)
December 14, 2022, 11:58 am
Developers secure funds to build proposed Florentin Square project in Tel Aviv
Re-development of iconic Florentin district finds financing alliance outside of the regular players, with financial corporations
By Danielle Nagler
Street art in Tel Aviv by Imaginary Duck. (Lord K2)
October 3, 2020, 8:06 am
The disappearing street art of Tel Aviv’s gentrifying Florentin neighborhood
As developers rush to ‘clean up’ bohemian area and artists are pushed further to the city’s south, a cultural center is in danger of being erased
By Lord K2
A storefront in the Levinsky Market, Tel Aviv (photo credit: David Katz)
October 2, 2018, 9:29 am
Top travel magazine fetes Israeli flea market
Calling it ‘a local gem,’ Conde Nast Traveler hails Tel Aviv’s Levinsky Market for its variety of food and spices, proximity to artsy Florentin neighborhood
By ToI Staff
A municipality worker paints over Yigal Shtayim's mural depicting the murder of Rabin in Tel Aviv on April 17, 2018. (courtesy Facebook)
April 26, 2018, 10:31 pm
Erasure of iconic Rabin assassination mural reveals a grim picture in Tel Aviv
City says painting over the 22-year-old work was an ‘innocent mistake’; artists and activists say it proves there’s no policy to preserve public murals and artwork
By Melanie Lidman
The line late at night outside the office of the Population Immigration and Border Authority, September 29, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
February 2, 2018, 12:05 pm
Interior Ministry abruptly moves office for asylum seekers out of Tel Aviv
Office of Population, Immigration and Border Authority in south Tel Aviv was only place to file for asylum; officials report backlog of 8,800 asylum applications
By Melanie Lidman
A local resident at new Tel & Take household goods lending space in Tel Aviv's Florentin neighborhood. (Courtesy Tel Aviv Municipality)
July 27, 2016, 3:48 pm
Tel Aviv lending depot makes living more affordable
Tel & Take, city’s first household goods space, offers everyday items — drills, beach umbrellas and more — for just $3
By Jessica Steinberg
In this photo taken on November 10, 2015, an Israeli man appears in a cafe in the Florentin neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
November 18, 2015, 4:29 am
Tel Aviv’s Florentin a bustling bohemian hub
With its hipsters, edgy graffiti and countercultural sensibility, this gay-friendly southern section of Israel’s iconic metropolis is one of countrey’s last true neighborhoods
By Aron Heller
Mac DeMarco. (Coley Brown/Courtesy)
May 31, 2015, 1:05 pm
Lo-fi master Mac DeMarco comes to Tel Aviv
Canadian-born Indie musician prepares for Tuesday’s stop in the White City on his 2015 world tour
By Judah Ari Gross
View from an 8th-floor apartment in one of Ilan Pivko's new Florentine buildings (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
May 16, 2014, 10:01 am
Grab a sneak peek at TLV’s homes (and see a documentary)
Houses from Within opens next Friday, and DocAviv closes this weekend
By Jessica Steinberg
The red-and-white tents of the Florentin Circus, situated at their temporary home in Jerusalem's First Station (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
April 29, 2014, 1:13 am
A sabra balancing act
A homegrown circus juggles, contorts, and clowns around
By Jessica Steinberg
Nina Cafe (photo credit: Courtesy, Nina Cafe Hotel Suites)
October 26, 2012, 2:12 pm
The top five must-visit day-drinking spots in Tel Aviv
From Allenby Street to Jaffa, charming eateries in the White City offer an enticing afternoon activity of drinking and lounging
By Michal Shmulovich
Street art, depicting an artist graffitiing, in south Tel aviv (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)
September 12, 2012, 7:02 pm
Art or vandalism? Graffiti paints life into unexpected corners
From surfboard exhibitions to poetry on walls in Florentin, Israeli artists are exploring new media for their work. Along the way, graffiti is being accepted by the art establishment
By Michal Shmulovich
Levi Zitner, aka Tom, with his bar audience for the play "Honest" (photo credit: Tal Hoffmann)
June 26, 2012, 12:22 pm
When all the bar’s a stage, drunken honesty ensues
A theater group adapts a British play about a night of getting sloshed to the Israeli mindset
By Dani Bronstein
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