Hi,
Like every Sabbath in the last couple of months, our Sabbath morning activity was going to the beach. Our favorite one is Metzitzim beach in Tel-Aviv, which sits between Hilton Hotel and Tel-Aviv Port, and we spent most our beach time there. It has a small lagoon surrounded by rocks and the port wall, on its northern part, that fits for small kids (just like a kids’ swimming pool 🙂).
It also has all the facilities the rest of Tel-Aviv beaches have: lifeguard, showers, toil etc. On the beach southern part, there are several small old houses, which are what is left from a Givat Nahshon (a small neighborhood built on top of an archeologist Tell). Tel-Aviv municipal plan is to evacuate them and to expend the parking lot and the walkway along the shore.
The was called Zvolon beach after Zvolon naval school, later Sheraton beach (after the old Sheraton hotel which stood here) and since 1972, the beach is named after the movie Metzitzim (Peepers), which tells the story of Gute and Eli, two grown-up friends who don’t want to age . Gute is a lifeguard who’s fighting peepers on the beach. While Eli plays a guitar and dreams of making a nightclub.
Eli is played by Arik_Einstein, a famous Israeli actor and singer. One of the records he produced is named after the hut they used to play in on the beach (Avigdur hut and the record named On the Grass at Avigdur)
Take Care
Gad
Metzitzim beach from the end of the port walk way
Ariel view of the beach (source: Simplex)
The paint of peepers on the beach bathrooms in 2000s (after the name of the beach) When Me too movement had started, its supporters graffiti on it “rape culture”, claiming it is not a legit paint for public place. Later the municipality remove it (Source: Facebook)