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VIOLENT ACTS AND URBAN SPACE IN CONTEMPORARY TEL AVIV REVISIONING MOMENTS TALI HATUKA FOREWORD BY DIANE DAVIS Violent Acts And UrbAn spAce in contemporAry tel AViV Jewish History, Life, and Culture Michael Neiditch, Series Editor Violent Acts And UrbAn Revisioning spAce in contemporAry Moments tel AViV tAli HAtUkA Foreword by diAne e. dAVis UniVersity oF texAs press Austin The Jewish History, Life, and Culture Series is supported by the late Milton T. Smith and the Moshana Foundation, and the Tocker Foundation. This project was also supported by Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowships (OIF, FP6), the Commission of the European Communities. Copyright © 2010 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2010 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 www.utexas.edu/utpress/about/bpermission.html ♾ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of Ansi/niso Z39.48-1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). librAry oF congress cAtAloging-in-pUblicAtion dAtA Hatuka, Revital. [Rig’e tikun. English] Violent acts and urban space in contemporary Tel Aviv : revisioning moments / Tali Hatuka ; foreword by Diane E. Davis. p. cm. — (Jewish history, life, and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-292-72185-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Tel Aviv (Israel)—Buildings, structures, etc. 2. Architecture—Israel—Tel Aviv. 3. Architecture and society—Israel—Tel Aviv. 4. Environmental policy—Israel—Tel Aviv. 5. Architecture and state—Israel—Tel Aviv. 6. Violence—Political aspects— Israel. 7. Public spaces—Social aspects—Israel—Tel Aviv. I. Title. nA1478.t45H38 2010 720.95694′8—dc22 2009035515 Originally published in Hebrew as Revisionist Moments: Political Violence, Architecture, and Urban Space in Tel Aviv, © Resling, 2008. For Yoav THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Contents Foreword by diAne e. dAVis ix preFAce xiii Acknowledgments xvi introdUction: politicAl Violence And tHe city 1 Chapter 1 19 Violent Acts And reVisioning moments Chapter 2 26 Absence, UrbAn spAce, And ciVil pArticipAtion in rAbin sqUAre: tHe AssAssinAtion oF prime minister rAbin, noVember 4, 1995 Ideology: Urban Space and Civil Participation 32 Memory: Everyday Life versus Traumatic Practices 56 Chapter 3 71 borders, UrbAn order, And stAte-city relAtionsHips Along tHe sHoreline: tHe sUicide bombing At tHe dolpHinAriUm discotHèqUe, JUne 1, 2001 viii Violent Acts And UrbAn spAce in contemporAry tel AViV Boundaries: The Role of Planning and 76 Architecture in Constructing Urban Borders 99 Order: State-City Relationships and Their Effect on Urban Order 123 Chapter 4 UrbAnity, immigrAtion, And eVerydAy liFe in neVe sHAAnAn: tHe sUicide bombings At tHe centrAl bUs stAtion, JAnUAry 5, 2003 Center and Periphery: Economic Production 125 and Urban Representation 149 Everyday: Visibility and Temporary Urban Coalitions 162 conclUsion: tHe roUtine oF Violence 173 Appendix A: key dAtes And eVents 175 Appendix b: tel AViV in nUmbers 177 notes 207 selected bibliogrApHy 219 index Foreword ravelogues and promotional documents portray contemporary Tel Aviv T as a sparkling oasis in a sand-encrusted region of the world, filled with history, culture, and visionary promise. From its modernist architecture to its origin as host to one of the world’s most culturally vibrant and politically significant diasporas, Tel Aviv has much to commend. According to a city- authorized website, it was founded by a group of people with an extraordinary dream . . . [whose] vision trans- formed an area made of sand dunes into the first Hebrew city. They carried out their city plan without formalities, in an innovative style that differ- entiated it from the past. . . . Today it is a bustling, effervescent metropo- lis characterized by an environment encouraging openness, originality and freedom of thought.1 UNESCO’s proclamation of Tel Aviv’s White City as a World Heritage site adds to the city’s special character, as does its clean and white beaches, warm sea, and hopping nightlife, leading to a similarly robust endorsement: “Put simply, Tel Aviv is where the action is in Israel.”2 Tali Hatuka’s magnificent new book inserts itself directly into these di- vergent sets of narratives, even as it links them to each other. Violent Acts and Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv not only raises questions about what and whose vision persists in contemporary Tel Aviv, or whether the utopian ideals of the city’s original founders—not to mention the tradition of plan- ning “without formalities”—still continue to define the place. By address- ing the city’s historical, architectural, spatial, and urban dynamics, this book also reinforces the sense that Tel Aviv is still where the action is, going one
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