Non-Stop 'White Night' party to take over Tel Aviv
The yearly party returns to the White City this Thursday.
By ELIYAHU KAMISHERUpdated: JUNE 28, 2017 14:49Tel Aviv White Night, 2015(photo credit: MOSHIK LINDENBAUM/ TEL AVIV-YAFO MUNICIPALITY)
Thousands of partygoers are expected to take to the streets of Tel Aviv on Thursday for the annual all-night White Night festivities, which mark the city’s designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Highlights include art, acrobatics, and dance installations from seven European Union countries staged along Rothschild Blvd. from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m; Bialik Square will feature a “modular street theatre event incorporating circus, live music, aerial acrobatics, band, clowns and much more.”A full list of the dozens of parties, concerts, and art instillations can be found on the municipality website.Meanwhile, revelers will don headphones for a silent dance party at Rabin Square.Tel Aviv’s refurbished Old Train Station known as “Hatachana” will host a number of concerts including Middle Eastern surf rock band Boom Pam and Bint el Funk, which combines Yemenite and funk music. Classic Israeli rock bands will take the stage at Givon Square.Workshops and activities for kids and families will take place in Kiryat Sefer Park.“On July 2003, UNESCO declared the White City of Tel Aviv - a delicate urban, historic and unique texture - as a cultural world legacy site,” the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality said in a statement, “The center of the city holds the world's largest architectural collection of building designed in the Bauhaus style. Since receiving the title, the city of Tel-Aviv-Yafo celebrates the declaration each year in a series of White Night events which connects to the city's DNA as a Nonstop City.”Tel Aviv gained its UNESCO recognition for the over 4,000 mostly white buildings built in the Bauhaus architectural style. The influential style of architecture was common in the 1920s and 1930s and was brought to Tel Aviv by Jewish architects fleeing Germany.Israel Police said that they will not allow people to enter the festivities with animals, glass bottles, weapons, bicycles or any two-wheeled vehicles.The municipality also created an phone app called SideKix to help users navigate through events.