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THE NEWSPAPER’S RESIDENCE, ALSO CALLED THE NEWSPAPER’S HOUSING, IS NICKNAMED TWO RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS ON YITZHAK FIELD 56 AND THE 13TH PALM STREET IN THE TEL AVIV NEIGHBORHOOD BUILT IN THE EARLY 1960S AND COLLECTED BY ISRAELI JOURNALISTS, INCLUDING PROMINENT JOURNALISTS, SUCH AS JOSEPH LAPID, YIGAL LEV AND SHANGHAI DON-HAYA.
THE BUILDING WAS DECLARED A BUILDING FOR CONSERVATION BY THE TEL AVIV- JAFFA MUNICIPALITY CONSERVATION COMMITTEE, AT ITS MEETING FROM MAY 9, 2021.
THE FIRST “JOURNEYS” IN TEL AVIV AND IN FACT IN THE COUNTRY, WAS THE PRESS HOUSE ON THE MARGOLIN 21 (OR LA GRADIA 34 OF HIS OTHER PART) THAT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1945 FOR AN URBAN LAND PROVIDED TO JOURNALISTS.
HISTORY OF HISTORY
IN THE EARLY 1960S, A GROUP OF JOURNALISTS WITH FAMILY MEMBERS ORGANIZED A CERTAIN ASSOCIATION OF THE TEL AVIV JOURNALIST SOCIETY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF TWO RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS. THE GROUP PURCHASED A LARGE AREA IN THE YAD ELIYAHU NEIGHBORHOOD IN TEL AVIV, NOT FAR FROM WHERE THE “NINEMA” WAS NOT BUILT IN THOSE YEARS. IN 1963, JOURNALISTS ENTERED THEIR NEW HOME. IN A BUILDING ON YITZHAK FIELD, EIGHT JOURNALISTS AND A BUILDING ON THE PALM STREET LIVED SIX JOURNALISTS. THE TWO BUILDINGS WERE A COMMON COURTYARD WITH A HUGE LAWN WHERE THE CHILDREN OF JOURNALISTS AND FRIENDS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYED. THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE PLACE WAS FAMILY AND MANY JOURNALISTS KNEW EACH OTHER PRIOR TO THEIR JOINT WORK AND THEIR AUTHOR OF THE JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION.
THE NEWSPAPER'S HOUSE WAS A SECTORAL HOUSING SURROUNDED BY SEVERAL OTHER SECTORAL STATES. TO THE WEST IS THE “ HOUSING OF TEL AVIV CITY WORKERS” BUILT FOR THE RESIDENTS OF TEL AVIV. TOGETHER WITH THE PALM HOUSING, A PARTY HOUSING THAT WAS BUILT TEN YEARS EARLIER FOR MEMBERS OF THE UNITED WORKERS PARTY, ON THE BRIDGE STREET 53–61. THE WEST IS THE “EAST-ACTIVE HOUSING” BUILT FOR MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PARTY.
NOT IN ORDER TO CHOOSE THE LOCATION OF THE NEWSPAPER’S HOUSING IN THIS AREA. THE LOCATION WAS IDEAL FOR JOURNALISTS WHO LIVED IN IT, SINCE IT WAS NEARLY GEOGRAPHICALLY CLOSE TO MOST OF THE MAIN NEWSPAPER SYSTEMS THAT CONCENTRATED THEN, AROUND THE STREETS OF YITZHAK FIELD, THE HELICOPTER, CARYBACH AND THE RAILWAY STREET, A 10-TO-MINUTE WALK DISTANCE FROM THE NEWSPAPER’S HOUSING. A SYSTEM CALLED ON THE STREET OF CARLYBACH 2, THE VIEWER’S SYSTEM ON THE 66TH STREET, THE LATEST NEWS SYSTEM THAT WAS ALSO PREPARED IN THE REGION, A SYSTEM ON THE GUARD ON BEN AVIGDOR 4. THE NEWSPAPER SYSTEMS TO STOP A SPARK IN YIDDISH AND I INPUT IN THE MINE THAT WAS BUILT ON THE 52 TRAIN STREET NEAR THE OLD CENTRAL STATION. IN THE ABSENCE OF PROPER PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION TO THE NEWSPAPER SYSTEMS, MANY JOURNALISTS USED TO WALK TO THEIR WORKPLACE.
OVER THE YEARS, JOURNALISTS HAVE DIED OR MOVED TO OTHER LOCATIONS, AND IN 2021 NO TENANTS HAVE LIVED IN BUILDINGS, ALTHOUGH SOME OF THE APARTMENTS STILL BELONG TO THEIR HEIRS.
IN 2013, THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION WAS HELD IN THE TEL AVIV MUNICIPALITY. IN 2021, ANOTHER TOUR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION WAS HELD.
THE NEWSPAPER DORMS, WHICH WAS THE FIRST NEWSPAPER RESIDENCE, RESIDE IN MARGOLIN 21 IN THE YAD ELIYAHU NEIGHBORHOOD IN TEL AVIV, WHERE NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALISTS LIVED, 18 FAMILIES. AMONG THE TENANTS MUST BE NOTED FOR THE PEACE OF ROSENFELD, SHMUEL SCHNEZER, THE KIND OF CANAAN, WHO RETURNED TO PORTNOY, EMANUEL KATZ, ISAAC REMBRANDT, AARON CLAUS, A TRUE TURTLE, MEIR BEN GORE, MORDECHAI KATZ, WHO LIVED EVERY SIX MONTHS AS WELL AS HIS RENOWNED PAINTER FROM ANNE KATZ WHO WAS A RESIDENT OF PARIS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
ARCHITECTURE
THE GROUP OF JOURNALISTS ORGANIZED FOR ITS RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION, ACQUIRED A SHARE THAT ONE APPEALED TO THE YITZCHAK FIELD 56 (THEN THE BRIDGE STREET) AND THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 13TH PALM STREET. THE TWO BUILDINGS WERE DESIGNED BY THE ARCHITECTS ABRAHAM YASKY, THE LAUREATE OF THE ISRAEL PRIZE IN 1982, AND HIS PARTNER AMNON ALEXANDRIANY. INSTEAD OF CEMENT BUILDINGS BUILT IN THE AREA AT THE SAME TIME, THE TWO DESIGNED THE BUILDINGS FROM WHITE JETS, WITH CONCRETE BELTS BETWEEN THE LOCATION