Ofra Haza - Visit To Hatikva May '08

I had expected this to be more of a run-down area, but it was not. It was a nice neighborhood and people were friendly. Next time I go to Israel I'll see them again, just to say hello.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Ofra
• Haza
• Hatikva
• Tel-Aviv
• Halachta

[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!

[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 .

[shaharmos]

@putinkaaa

HA'TIKVA is with many jewish yemen peole

[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.

[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)