Day 3: Shalom Tower and Amirs Film 21/11/2018

A part of the mosaic in the Shalom Tower

The third day we met at 8:10 am at our usual place, the first 2-3 hours we were working on our projects and at 11:30 we headed to the Shalom Tower.

The Shalom Tower, formerly the highest building of the Middle East, is just one of the many skyscrapers in the city, now. In the entrance you can find some models of Tel Aviv at different historic stages. We learned about the first layouts of Israeli houses and we actually saw very detailled miniature buildings of them. Around us were mosaics with typical Israeli scenes. 

Model of what the first streets in Tel Aviv

... and nowadays

There was also an photo exhibition of everyday life from the early Tel Aviv:

The Shalom Tower has more than thirty floors and we tried to get as high as possible... We could reach the twenty-ninth floor to get a view of the City of Tel Aviv including the sea. There is no official platform so we stood in the lobby of normal bureaus expecting just to be kicked out of there any time...

The feeling was overwhelming because it looked exactly like the miniature buildings we had seen before and we could see just everything we visited before!

View of the 29th floor.

Afterwards we had some free time as usual and most of us went out to eat and strolled along Rothschild Boulevard. The other groups went to the beach and relaxed on seats and some kinds of day beds.

2 pm: work shop time at school! And that day we wrote the final script for our movie: an unhappy love story taking place in Tel Aviv and Overath, a story between an Israeli boy and a German girl - both studying Architecture. -  Of course! :-)

After work, we had a very special program: We watched a film produced by one of the Israeli teachers, AMIR WOLF! He is a teacher at Ironi Highschool of the Arts, but also a popular actor and theatre and film director! The film "Firebird" deals with Holocaust survivors. Surprisingly, it is a thriller taking place in modern Tel Aviv. It combines aspects of tragedy, comedy and love story: 

The protagonist whose hobby it is to go to funerals and funeral parties pretends to have met the deceased person in some concentration camp and invents all sorts of stories to gain the trust of the relatives and first of all the trust of the widow.. This is his way to get through also financially. We cannot repeat the film here. Best thing: You watch it yourself!! But we must say, we were deeply impressed how Amir handled this film topic!

Amir Wolf, the Director of "Firebird"

Good night Tel Aviv!