One thing he forgot to take into account was transportation. Meanwhile, Ze'ev Sharef, the man who had volunteered to type up the agreed upon proclamation on his typewriter had finished with just enough time to spare to dress up and go to the ceremony. They all went home to get ready for the event that was just an hour or so away. After long fierce debates on what to name the to be announced state that evening, a committee of prominent figures including Ben-Gurion finally agreed on the name Israel.

Another tid bit of history I found particularly interesting came at the end of the tour and has to do with the proclamation ceremony of the founding of the State of Israel. Ok enough of the asides back to the tour. So birthright success - matching Jews up for years (JDate take note). As they say the rest is history, after 6 weeks of dating they got engaged and are now happily married for over 2 years. However, the next morning a guy called her, who she remembered she exchanged numbers with and asked her out. He intends to return to Australia (with his mate) soon to begin graduate school in Middle Eastern politics and Medicine (which is apparently a shorter program down under).Īnother story our guide told us, was about an American who came to Israel on birthright and went to the Billiard bar in Tel-Aviv - she got fairly drunk and had little to no recollection of the night before. Our guide, the Australian came here a year ago on a trip and has stayed ever since because he fell in love with an Israeli - who he met on the beach.

Some of the stories I found the most intriguing on the tour were the personal ones about the tour guides. The neighborhood was very interested in keeping him writing that when he would take afternoon naps the area went silent (essentially all the neighborhood was warned and told the poet needs his rest). Bialik was a household name at this point and the community was so eager to have him stay in Tel-Aviv and make him comfortable that they went to comical extremes. One story I was particularly fond of was of Chaim Nachman Bialik's (Israel's national poet) initial arrival in his home in Tel-Aviv in 1924. The tour is great for learning historical information about Tel-Aviv and its founding.

The opera tower tel aviv