At midnight the loudspeaker at the edge of the Hassan Arafe mosque in Ajami started to bellow out guttural calls. Ajami is Jaffa’s Mediterranean Arab village, between the port and Bat Yam. A neighborhood that has 10,000 inhabitants. All the lights went on at once. Terror and tension stood in the air as excited voices called out to each other beneath the window car motors revved into life, and people started running toward the mosque.
Exactly there, on the land side of the sea wall, as it was impossible to walk on the sea side, came the big wave and riding on its head was a giant Grouper that landed just in front of our feet.
So how much money is grown and milked in Sinai?
If every Acre (4 Dunams) yields about 40,000 $ and we speak about thousands of Acres- we speak about hundreds millions of dollars.
A very big and profitable industry no doubt. Expensive enough to oil all hands – official & unofficial.
A new golden triangle is here.
In the Beginning god differed heaven from water. Then he created earth and a place to wash clothes - a place for gossiping, soaping, washing, and drying in the sun to beautify the court and the street.
When we stopped (the ones who did) to dry the laundry in the open, we gave up some very old and comforting thing that is even more ancient then the washing machine & the electric dryer.
The exhibition brings laundry back to its natural place. Reviving the color which is hidden behind the politically correct laundry covers that turns the city into a gray, descent, boring space.
There is nothing like a good pair of underpants to remind us where we are coming from.
The Nachlat Binyamin Fair ground – the art & handcraft market of Tel Aviv & the junction with the Carmel market & Shenkin street, or the old port of Jaffa is the natural place to dry laundry
