Ofra Haza - Visit To Hatikva May '08

[koellmannms]

Thanks!

[shaharmos]

this is the garden in this neighborhood

became of her name

[yonataneshel]

By the way- on 7:57 you can see the bomb shelter placed in the middle of the little park there (the massive white concrete building to the right.

By law, every open public place in Israel must have one bomb shelter for every X amout of Sqm.

[yonataneshel]

Nowadays many russian (jewish) immigrants lives in the neighborhood(you can hear that old couple talking russian sitting on the street), and it's reputation is slightly better, but in the days when Ofrah grew up there, it was exclusively occupied by Yamanite and Morrocan jews and was a very poor neighborhood, almost the "Harlem" of Tel-Aviv, if you will.

[yonataneshel]

Just a little background, so people won't get a wrong image of Israel or Tel-Aviv; Htikva neighborhood is quite a tough neighborhood. Not in the sense of criminal activity (we hardly really have "tough neighborhood" of that sort here in Israel, no gangs or anything like that) but it's just very old, and considerably poor neighborhood, which explains the "projects" looking housing and the general old look of it.

[swedgoy]

Thank you for the info, Yoni! That's very interesting.

I think that this part of Hatikvah, immediately south of Park Hatikvah, was rather nice though. But, I generally feel at home everywhere! :-))))))

"........old couple..." You mean the redhead @3:53? She was not that old, was she? No....... ! :-))

Thanks for the phone number,Yoni. I'll call you when I'm installed in Tel-A.

Take care!

[Gentilejedi]

Great video, sad but a nice tribute to Ofra.

[yonataneshel]

by the way, on the stone (2:39) it says:

"Ofra haza

2000-1957

The singer who made her impression / left her mark

in the Hebrew and international music"

and than a quote below:

"..IM NIN'ALU DALTEY NEDIVIM,

DALTEY MAROM LO NIN'ALU.."

(..even when the doors of the most generous ones are being locked, the gates of havens are always open.." (rabbi Shalom Shabazi)

[yonataneshel]

really nice.. keep coming to Israel! and you're doing the country and its people a great service, posting all these vids! thank you.

[swedgoy]

@ yonataneshel

That's a promise, .כי אני אוהב את ישראל

[TheEyesOfOfraHaza]

I am really looking forward to going there....

Please what is the name of the song

[swedgoy]

@The Eyes.......

The title of the song is: 'Halachta', from her album 'Vehutz Mizeh Hakol Beseder', of 1976 vintage.

When in Tel-Aviv, do visit her gravesite at the Yarkon Cemetery in north Tel-A. Bus 127 from the Central Bus Station to the northern part of the cemetery perimeter, will take you there. Then ask the friendly people in the nearby flower shop and then it's less than five minutes on foot. Inside of the low iron fence you can sit down in a marble sofa to the right .

[onlinelondon]

Hi there Swedgoy

Thank you so much for your information.

Yes, I cetainly will go to her grave site - and cry!

This song is so beautiful, and it feels so congenial to my own compositions, without any comparison otherwise...

But she was also an exceptional composer - and her voice is nearly impossible to describe with general words, it is so special.

Thank again.

ed

Enjoy my tribute song for her - The eyes of Ofra Haza"

[JerusalemHolyLand]

Wonderful video!!

[OfraFan]

Thanks for this video. I'll never make it to Israel, but I've often wondered about Ofra's neighborhood. Very touching really ... makes me a bit melancholy seeing beloved Ofra's neighborhood without the possibility of seeing Ofra wave a greeting or smile at the camera.

[nakedBison69]

why cant you go to israel?

[tomeriko]

Just GREAT!

thanks a lot for sharing this!

...such a beautiful sunny day

...such a nostalgy

...such a longings for a Voice of Angel...

[putinkaaa]

Hatikva is very poor neighbourhood , but very nice and warm people!

tnx for sharing!

[shaharmos]

@putinkaaa

HA'TIKVA is with many jewish yemen peole

[ayinchet]

How peaceful it all is....great panorama show!

BTW anywhere in the middle of the video when you marched towards the house again it sounded as if there were many marching with you, the sound of the steps increased...so many people visited this place..as if now they were marching, determinined to get Ofra back to us!!

You were in May and I followed you in July...:)

[ayinchet]

Ohhh, my beloved places!!! I m feeling like home :)) BTW it's the OFra Garden, hey! Some another 100 yards at the end of the park, next to Ofra's former school is sprayed on the wall of it: Gan Ofra" !!

[swedgoy]

erev tov, chaya!

Do you know if Ofra ever appeared on that little white stage with a 'chuppah':-) for entertainment, on the right, entering the park from Rehov Boaz, if you know what I mean? It was solidly built and had probably been there for a number of years. Some electrical cords, no longer in use, sticking out of short pipes in the floor, could be seen further inside.

[danielco2]

Just two little corrections: Ofra's father is called Yefet, and he is just over 90 years old. Beside that, the video is great, and I was so excited while visiting there. Just across the street there is a home for old people (I don't know its name in English), which Ofra wrote about in the mid 1980's in her colum in an Israeli newspaper.

[swedgoy]

danielco2

Yes, you're right, Yefet is his name. His age being 85, was as told me by his lovely neighbor living at Rehov Boaz 37.

danielco, you don't happen to know when Ofra's parents made Aliah?

[danielco2]

She is wrong. The Haza's just celebrated Yefet's 90 birthday in Passover.

Yefet himself told me they made Aliyah in 1944, before Israel became a state.

[OfraHaza]

This is great. Thank you for sharing your trip with us!

[KNJGSY]

Excellent. A nice addition to the growing Ofra Haza clips on YouTube. Nicely put together and tastefully presented. Thanks for sharing your experience.

[swedgoy]

cobaltkitty,

my pleasure! The title of the song is: 'Halachta', from her album 'Vehutz Mizeh Hakol Beseder', of 1976 vintage.

[cobaltKitty]

Thank you for sharing this with us! What song is playing first in the background?

[whyzeee2]

Halachta from the album Vehutz Mizeh Hakol Beseder