Rothschild Boulevard: period costumes, vintage cars, stagecoaches, song, dance and poetry from the 1920s-30s

City streets and squares host opera, theaters and musicians

Sunrise concert and beach parties; galleries and museums open late

On Wednesday May 27^th, Tel Aviv will hold its annual White Night. As part of the city's centennial celebrations, this year's White Night will be a nostalgic tribute to the early days of Tel Aviv. The White Night celebrations, with numerous events throughout the city, will begin at 21:00 and run through sunrise the following morning.

For the White Night, Rothschild Boulevard will return to the past in celebration of Tel Aviv-Yafo's 100^th birthday. Nostalgic touches include actors in period costume, stagecoaches, vintage busses, old-time fashion show and an exhibit of old trades and vintage cars, circus and dance performances from that era, antique photo booths and more.  

 Countless performances throughout town include: the Tel Aviv Opera performing old Tel Aviv songs in Gan HaHashmal; Habima and Gesher theaters performing in the newly restored Manshia Train Station; a sunrise concert with Yehudit Ravitz at the Tzuk Beach; a party till 4:00 am at Alma Beach; an old-time café with live jazz in Bialik Square and a Dixieland jazz band playing on an open-roof traveling bus and the Nahalat Binyamin craft fair will be open until 23:00. Restaurants throughout town will have special menus and museums and galleries will stay open late, with many special exhibit openings. For a complete list of White Night activities, please see:

http://www.tlv100.co.il/EN/News/Pages/whitenights.aspx.

Tel Aviv, the first modern Hebrew city, was founded on April 11, 1909. On that day, several dozen families gathered on the sand dunes on the beach outside Yafo to allocate plots of land for a new neighborhood they called Ahuzat Bayit, later known as Tel Aviv. The city expanded rapidly with massive waves of immigration in the 1920s and 30s, also bringing about a boon in Bauhaus-style architecture. Tel Aviv's status as the region's most creative, liberal and tolerant city received was furthered when Yafo joined the municipality in 1949. Throughout the decades, the city has flourished to become Israel's business and cultural center and has developed a unique atmosphere fusing Mediterranean and urban elements.