Shopping center Opera Tower Tel Aviv
View towards North , Opera Tower Tel Aviv
Opera Tower Tel Aviv
Facade, Opera Tower Tel Aviv
View towards North , Opera Tower Tel Aviv
Facade, Frumin House Ministry of Religions Jerusalem
Synagogue, Frumin House Ministry of Religions Jerusalem
Knesset 'Giveat Ram' Jerualsem
Lobby Knesset 'Giveat Ram' Jerusalem
Never Looked Better - Contemporary Artists Respond to the Leni and Harbert Sonnenfeld Photo Collection at Beth Hatefusoth THE NAHUM GOLDMANN MUSEUM OF THE JEWISH DIASPORA Tel Aviv
Participating Artists:Yochai Avrahami,Ilya Rabinovich,Michael Blum,Yael Bartana,Yosi Atia and Itamar Rose
Curated by: Galit Eilat, Eyal Danon
Triple Knesset-statement
Since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, moved the Knesset between two cities: from it's first location in Opera House Tel -Aviv to Frumin's house and than to its permanent location in 'Givat Ram' Jerusalem. Since than the changes that have occurred in the public and mental spaces regarding the architectural styles are serving as evidences to the polarizations between religion and nation the past and the present. In the process of documenting those prior parliament locations, I discovered that the level of conservation of those two historical sites is limited to the informative level. The Opera tower is located in the corner of Yarkon and Herbert Samuel Street in Tel -Aviv, and it carries the name and conserves the façade of Opera House that was standing in that location before 1986. The building that was designed by Yosef Noifeld in 1925 was built in 1945 and it functioned in it first three years as 'Kessem' (magic) cinema house. During the period of the 1948 war it functioned as a military headquarters. The first Israeli parliament was using this building between December 1948 and December 1949. That was the reason that square next to it was renamed from 'Herbert Samuel' to 'Knesset' Square. After that the Knesset moved to Jerusalem in 1950, the Tel-Aviv municipality used the building and later in the 60's it was used as the old Opera House. In mid 80's the old building was demolished and in 1988 the new Opera Tower was inaugurated. It includes a luxury apartments ,shopping mall, cinema and parking lot. The Frumin house is located in King George Street in the centre of Jerusalem. It was built for a bank purposes but the construction works stopped in 1947 and from the year 1950 till 1966 it hosted the Israeli parliament. The assembly hall was in the cellar where originally the bank's safes where supposed to be located. In 1966 the Israeli Parliament relocated to it's permanent location in 'Giveat Ram' and The Frumin House was given to the Ministry of Tourism. Since the year 2005 it used by the Ministry of Religions and the Rabbinical Courts are situated in that building. The corner stone for the establishment of the current parliament location in 'Giveat Ram' Jerusalem was laid in 1958.The building was developed by the architect Yosef Klarewine. The building was inaugurated in 1966 and it contains an assembly hall, commission's halls, chambers for the government and the members of the Knesset. A new wing was built an inaugurated this year, it is connected to the older part and most of the Knesset activities are taken place in the new part. The enrooting of the current location as 'The Knesset location' and the disappearance of the two prior locations from the Israeli national narrative is a symptom for a society that is lacking of a historical perspective or a society with a transient state.
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