The mainstream media won’t tell you this, but the Purim event that the municipality is organizing in two weeks in Jaffa (Wednesday, March 8, 11:00-15:00), “Jaffa – Japan”, is purely based on the play on words. that’s how it is. They will put a smiling cat on the poster of those who do forwards and backwards with their hands, they will write “Kunichiwa” on the official page, they will say that you are “invited and invited to jump with a costume to the Far East, enjoy the cherry blossoms and take a Purim selfie with the Emperor and Empress of Japan”. No problem. Only all of this happens purely because “Japan” looks like “Jaffa” when you extend O’ a little more. We have no problem with that, we love puns, we ourselves make puns all the time, but at least we have the integrity to admit it. And by the way, it’s really amusing that “Japan” is “Jaffa” when you lengthen the oh a little! Quite a few years ago, the first time we encountered someone who vandalizes a road sign like this (“Tel Aviv-Japan”) it made us laugh, and maybe even confused us for a second and a quarter! But really, our dear friends in the municipality: at least admit it.
(From the municipality’s website. Character design – Ola Dagan, invitation design – Dolly)
What else is promised at the event? Japanese-inspired street artists and clowns, musical performances, Japanese drumming show, butoh dancers, origami activity, make-up station and making a passport from a Japanese dragon. The last activity is an exact quote from the municipality’s website, we have no idea what it means but it just proves what we claim here: it’s all based on puns! There is no other reason to make a passport out of a dragon. And again, that’s fine too, and the first time someone wrote “Dungeons and Passes” we really laughed too. But really, a municipality. This impudence respects neither us nor you.
Jaffa-Japan, Clock Square, Raziel 20 Jaffa, Wednesday (8.3) 11:00-15:00. Free entry, absolutely free, 0 yen