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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samantha567" data-source="post: 7013218" data-attributes="member: 240281">Tel Aviv Carpet of half-million Flowers                                                  <img src="http://www.epidemicfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/FlowerCarpetinTelAviv_005-150x112.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The city of Tel Aviv continued its  year-long centennial celebration on Wednesday, with the installation of a  sweeping carpet of flowers in the city’s Rabin Square, received as a  gift from the city of Brussels. The half-million flowers used to compose the colourful carpet arrived  from Belgium on Wednesday morning, after being held-up in the airport  overnight due to aircraft problems and bureaucracy. Annette Katz works for the mayor’s office in Brussels, and helps oversee  a flower carpet they produce in Belgium every couple of years. She  travelled to Tel Aviv help install the floral display. “It was a little complicated, you know, over the rules of bringing  flowers. And first we start with Israeli flowers because – it will be  much interesting, but they couldn’t have enough flowers at the same  time. They don’t have enough flowers, and they don’t have begonias,  which is a flower which can stay in the heat for one or two days without  water,” Katz said. <img src="http://www.epidemicfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/FlowerCarpetinTelAviv_01-500x375.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> More than a 100 volunteers, under the supervision of a special team  of experts from Brussels, helped to place hundreds of thousands of  daliah and begonia flowers. The carpet’s design is a homage to the history of Tel Aviv and is  inspired by the classic tiles and murals found in the homes of the  city’s founders. “This design is very special, by an artist by the name  of Adi Yekutieli, and it’s a kind of the old tiles they used to build  the old houses of the city of Tel Aviv,” Tel Aviv’s mayor Ron Huldai  said. <img src="http://www.epidemicfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/FlowerCarpetinTelAviv_02-500x375.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> “I think it’s a great thing. The colours are great. And the motifs of  the Middle East – like camels that I see here, Tel Aviv motifs, some  other things – it’s nice. It’s special,” Eyal Cohen, a Tel Aviv resident  said. <img src="http://www.epidemicfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/FlowerCarpetinTelAviv03-500x375.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> “It’s very beautiful, this flower carpet. I want to thank very much,  to the Brussels municipality, for the present to Tel Aviv for hundredth  birthday. It’s really beautiful,” Varda Biran, another Israeli visitor  to Rabin Square said. <img src="http://www.epidemicfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/FlowerCarpetinTelAviv04-500x375.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Tel Aviv municipality’s website says the city was founded in April  1909 by a group of Jewish residents of the nearby Arab city of Jaffa.  They were tired of their harsh living conditions under Ottoman Turkish  rule so sixty families signed up for the new neighbourhood, that was set  to be independent of Jaffa city. <img src="http://www.epidemicfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/FlowerCarpetinTelAvi05-500x375.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The website adds that land was purchased and the plan was to build a  wide and green city, unlike the urban density they knew in Jaffa. The  land was divided to 60 plots. <img src="http://www.epidemicfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/FlowerCarpetinTelAviv06-500x375.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> About 2 million people live in the greater Tel Aviv area – about 30  percent of all Israelis. Of these, 380,000 live in the city of Tel Aviv,  which now incorporates the ancient port of Jaffa. <img src="http://www.epidemicfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/FlowerCarpetinTelAviv07-500x375.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Tel Aviv is largely a secular city and Israel’s business capital. The  area is home to the Jewish state’s main international airport and stock  exchange, as well as many of its biggest companies. <img src="http://www.epidemicfun.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/FlowerCarpetinTelAviv08-500x375.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Also dubbed the “White City”, Tel Aviv boasts many 1930s  Modernist-style buildings inspired by Germany’s Bauhaus school and was  declared a World Cultural Heritage site by UNESCO. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/love.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" data-shortname=":love:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/love.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" data-shortname=":love:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/love.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" data-shortname=":love:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/love.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" data-shortname=":love:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/love.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" data-shortname=":love:" /> <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/love.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" data-shortname=":love:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/love.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" data-shortname=":love:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/love.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" data-shortname=":love:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/love.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" data-shortname=":love:" /> <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/love.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" data-shortname=":love:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/love.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" data-shortname=":love:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/love.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" data-shortname=":love:" /> <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/love.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" data-shortname=":love:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/love.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" data-shortname=":love:" /> <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/love.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":love:" title="Love    :love:" data-shortname=":love:" /> <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/wink.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" data-shortname=";)" />IF YOU LIKE MY POST PLS ADD REP ++ <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/wink.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" data-shortname=";)" /> </blockquote>

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