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Audio: Tel Aviv: The City That Never Sleeps
Also: 10 Years since the Pessach terror attack at the Park Hotel in Nethania that cost 30 lives and left 140 injured.
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.The Art Capital of the Middle East is undoubtedly Tel Aviv. 2012 is the City’s Art Year with a multitude of events from music and dance, to guided tours seeing the street art, workshops and many unusual happenings. But if you cannot visit Tel Aviv this year, then come with me - on a fascinating trip off the beaten tourist trail to a variety of studios and workshops that will absolutely amaze you.
Learn about ‘Israbilly’ and 'Hetrotopian Space'. Puzzled ? Then hear this week’s Walter’s World which will also take you around ancient Jaffa to see how that city is moving into the 21st Century, while still retaining its age-old character. A visitor's paradise with the unexpected around every corner.
Also: A report from the moving memorial meeting at the Park Hotel in Nethania, attended by the victims and their families remembering the intefada’s worst terror attack at that Hotel . Hear about their lives ten years on. And: The latest from the travel scene.
Park Hotel. Credit: Israel National News file photo
Walter Bingham was born in, Germany. Just days before the outbreak of WWII, with the help of a Zionist youth movement he was selected for a place on the ‘Kindertransport’ to Great Britain. Walter saw front line action during the Normandy invasion of Europe and was awarded the Military Medal for ‘Bravery in the Field’. In England Walter also acted in films including several Harry Potter films. On the day of his Aliyah in August 2004 he transferred his programme ‘Walter’s World’ to Israel National Radio as a weekly Magazine programme and it has been running here regularly ever since. Walter is an accomplished public speaker and was a member of a visiting panel of lecturers at schools throughout the UK, where he spoke on events in the Third Reich. He has also spoken at schools in the USA and addressed audiences in Israel.