Word: dizengoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps I'm being uncharitable. Some parts of the film I enjoyed immensely. There were a number of out-of-focus, although clearly recognizable, shots of my neighborhood in Tel Aviv, right near Kikar Dizengoff (Israel's Broadway and Third Avenue rolled into one, but like nothing so much as a glorified Davis Square). There was also a nice number in the Super-Sol in Jerusalem, although I would like to point out that the Supermarket on Ibn Gvirol in Tel Aviv would have made the point about Israel's plastic culture after the Six-Day War much more tellingly...
...what is this, Dizengoff Street?" yelled one Israeli soldier, referring to Tel Aviv's cafe-filled main street. He was surprised to see journalists in civilian clothes on the newly secured Israeli bridgehead in Egypt. We, however, were nervous. Armed only with pink press passes, tourniquet bandages and surplus broadbrimmed British helmets (which were a source of amusement to Israeli soldiers, who wear snug-fitting U.S.-style helmets), we joked about our lack of passports and the Geneva Convention regulations concerning captured journalists...
...suddenness of the fighting created some curious anomalies on both sides. Despite a blackout, the shop-window lights on Tel Aviv's fashionable Dizengoff Street and Allenby Road snapped on automatically at sundown; shopkeepers quickly turned them off. In Cairo, which lies but seven minutes by jet from the canal, the streets were brightly lit for hours after sundown. "You mean," demanded a sidewalk vendor in disbelief, "that we are fighting Israel with all these lights on?" By late evening, when the government ordered that all electric lights and headlights be daubed with blue paint, the war reports seemed...
...Beirut who specializes in international law, "the Israelis will be building on sand, legally speaking as well as literally. But that has never deterred them in the past." Indeed not, judging by one of Zionism's favorite epics. In 1909 a band of Jewish families followed Meir Dizengoff out of Jaffa to a deserted stretch of dunes; they listened in hope and disbelief as Dizengoff prophesied that a Jewish community of 25,000 would rise on the sand where they stood...
...Dizengoff's settlement of Tel Aviv (The Hill of Spring) far exceeded even his expectations. Today greater Tel Aviv, one of whose main streets is named after Dizengoff, has a population of 1,200,000. It has swallowed up Jaffa, crowned its busy industry with smog as thick at times as Los Angeles, and generated so much crime that tough border police have been retrained and reassigned to Tel Aviv to cut down robberies and street violence...