Event: Tel Aviv Stock Exchange "Globe" Exhibit
Honey bee globe Tel Aviv has a wonderfully active art scene. I passed by the port to see a painting exhibit of Yaffo and south Tel Aviv. This was just a prelude to the main outside exhibit now at the Rothchild Boulevard park. Continuing a tradition of companies sponsering art, the stock exchange sponsored a Globe Exhibit. Companies sponsor an artist which depicts the company's business in some way. There are over 30 [?check #?] different exhibits. Some are funny and creative, on a nice day, the buoulevard is buzzing with kids and strollers and flashes from cameras go off like a Hollywood photo-op.
Brass people crossing through the globe This exhibit is a follow up of two previous shows, one based on bulls, obviously symbolic of the bull charging as a symbol of a good stock market run. Before that, penguins were used as a base for another exhibit. The Tel Aviv stock exchange is a hidden secret of the Israel economy. For a long time, almost a closed club of a few prominent Israeli families who found the big industrial and commercial conglomorates, now a much more a reflection of the international and populist nature of Israeli economy. But sadly, the exchange has not enjoyed the wide support of individual investors in other western countries. So in an effort to advertise the explain the stock trading and investing business the exchange sponsors these outside art shows.
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange with "company" satellites The show itself runs along all of Rothchild Boulevard. It's a nice location on a late summer afternoon. The trees shade most of the central park area, where the exhibit is installed on the edge of a walking path. The kilometer long boulevard is a good walk, although kids seem to get board at about the half way point. On a Saturday morning, the center exhibit area was clogged with strollers and kids pulling on every kind of ball, rod and string sticking off the statues. Some were cute and some a little annoying. But overall, when the place is full of people, it's a nice way to spend a lazy afternoon or a Friday / Saturday day off.\
So come see the globes, on Rothchild Boulevard, 'in the city' -- /AmiV
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