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Rendering of Tel Aviv's Bloch Street in April 2012 after bike lanes are added (Photo courtesy of Tel Aviv Municipality)
As TA bike lanes grow, residents demand voice in planning
After years of pressure from advocacy groups, the Tel Aviv Municipality has finally adopted an aggressively pro-bicycle agenda. Bike lanes are being paved, a bike-share system is being launched, and the city’s PR machine is working hard to sell the new strategy. Yet, the insensitivity and obtuseness which with the new policy is being implemented…
By +972 Magazine April 24, 2011
Bicycling on a car-free highway, Yom Kippur (photo: Ari Miller)
Holiday spirit (Ari Miller)
Yom Kippur, my favorite Israeli holiday, is here. While rooted in that archaic construct called Judaism, Yom Kippur is as secular as Chinese food and a movie on Christmas. That’s Christmas in America and Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv. As a kid I would spend the holiday in somber observance, fasting, with my head in…
By +972 Magazine September 17, 2010
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