1. Bloomfield Stadium
I grew up in a Hapoel fan family, since I can remember I had a subscription. I experienced a few high moments there and of course many low moments, but most importantly – in Bloomfield I met my wife, Yael Laor. In recent years I hardly come to the games, so I’m not sure I deserve the title of a fan. It’s a bit strange for me to visit its renovated version. A matter of habit. My son is five years old and this year we took him to his first game. Somehow we ended up winning and I suddenly remembered for a small moment how much I love this stadium.
There is love in it. Bloomfield Stadium (Photo: Barak Berniker)
2. Cinematheque Square
A significant location in my life that is largely responsible for my falling in love with cinema. This is the extension that is adjacent to Urban High School A where I studied in the film major, and where I met those who have become my best friends to this day. The star of the expansion is of course the cinematheque where I screened projects, but more importantly I watched a variety of films of all kinds – from depressing Eastern Europeans, through quirky New Zealand works, to cinematic classics. Only thanks to the strange frog-shaped building I got to see them all on the big screen. The four 5
frog? We thought he was a bear. Cinematech Tel Aviv (Photo: Boris-B/Shutterstock)
3. The bottom
Guess Bottom Coffee is one of the places that appeared the most times in this section. Sorry I’m not reinventing anyone, but sometimes a cliché is warranted. Once the coffee was just another coffee in a city full of coffee shops, and today it is one of the last of the Mohicans that survived the change that swept central Tel Aviv in recent years. There is something fun about returning to the same place, that even after years of growing the place, it will feel exactly the same as it did the first time I sat in it. Lincoln 9
always remains the same. The bottom (photo: Ben Kalmer)
4. House coffee
The new cafe of my partner for so many projects – Tom Yaer and her husband Yaron Sivan. Underneath the cutest studio for Hebrew studies in Israel (owned by Yaron) they opened the most beautiful cafe in Tel Aviv. As someone who has spent many hours in Tom Veron’s real home, I can say that their cafe feels like another room in the apartment. As its name suggests, it is a house. But a house with particularly good taste. Frankel 43
There is literally nothing like home. Cafe Bayit (photo from the Instagram page @cafe_bayit)
5. Towards sunset between Rothschild and Rabin Square
It’s time for a confession – I’m actually kind of sneaking into this section. Not long ago I defected to Givatayim. As a native of the city who thought he would never leave it, I admit that at first I missed it and felt a bit like an exile. Over time, and especially since the corona virus when I see what happened to the city, I miss living in Tel Aviv less and less. But as soon as I visit my parents who live in Rothschild near the Bhima, or when I happen to walk somewhere between Rothschild and Rabin Square towards sunset, I feel a slight longing again. Something in the evening hours, and in the streets, always reminds me of the feeling of the house where I grew up – Tel Aviv.
There is magic in it, what can we say. Rothschild Avenue (Photo: Ilan Spira)
>> Daniel Ader is a director and screenwriter (“Eretz Terahel”, “Grandma Bishala”, “The New Jew”), and on March 5 (it comes out on a Sunday) he will hold a master class As part of an open day at the Department of Cinema at the Faculty of Midrash Arts, Beit-Barel College, which will deal with the last film he directed, “Ola Le Rash” of the HaKivd Channel, one of the most successful Israeli films last summer and on its sure way to the status of a cult film. Worth it to you.