For a moment I thought I was at a VJ show at night in the Berlin underground or New York: music was played in the tunnel that connects Bat Galim with Kiryat Eliezer in Haifa, a huge projector projected the graffiti image planned for the wall at the end. The truth is, the tunnel offers a good place for scenes of this kind, and so I take my hat off to the social worker from the Haifa Municipality who made this cool project possible with the budgeting of 'partnership guards' and the residents of the Kiryat Eliezer neighborhood.
Today, Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 15 residents registered on the website of the Haifa Municipality painted the painting together with the artist, a resident of Masada Street in Haifa. The artist drew the outlines of the work, the residents filled it with paint. This is the plan.
The artist
Adi Yonatan Cohen, who after the October 7th massacre immortalized the portrait of Rachel, the heroine of the south, on Komoi Street, will guide the painting of the graffiti together with residents who planned for the tunnel.
Adi Yonatan Cohen:
The association 'Partnership Keepers' works to prevent escalation in mixed cities. She funded the mural. It shows a figure of a girl or a boy whose origin is not clear. On the left side appears a background of traditional Arab fabric of embroidered dresses, on the right a background indicating tiles from Jerusalem with Jewish symbols.
the tunnel
The tunnel connecting Kiryat Eliezer and Bat Galim under the Bat Galim train station is an important road for the hundreds of residents who pass through it every day on their way to the markets of Kiryat Eliezer, to their homes or to the beaches of Bat Galim. Pirate graffiti is often painted on its walls, but the municipality takes care to remove them, to maintain some level of cleanliness in the neglected tunnel. This is an important breakthrough, that now the municipality mediates art and adds color and interest, one that also has an important political message of coexistence.
Totally disgusting. Haifa of the 60s was something else pleasant and good that today we don't know .. a world horror. Take Yahav out of the mothballs. Just complete injustice. I'm sad because I grew up there. Today I live in the center, and come to Haifa. It is a very difficult experience, especially in Hadar.
Because you all left for Carmel and Tel Avi and the watchtowers in the Galilee. What did you think would happen????
Stupid response, sorry
I passed by there today, all the walls are white, the whole floor is dirty, what is this about?
Wow….blessed…..well done….finally
Maybe enough with the chatter on the walls and start really investing in essential things!
What a magic of a project - warms the heart. Color has a connecting and winning power
A beautiful project
Correcting a common mistake
These are murals and not graffiti
Graffiti is an underground protest guerilla action. This is a planned and visible project
Please come and decorate the Brettner tunnels with new things!
It fills the eyes and the soul
Liar Which of the residents will participate?
why say "liar"
Here is the copy of the email I received (because I registered):
Hello everyone,
Thank you for signing up for the mural painting workshop with artist Adi Yonatan Cohen!
We will meet tomorrow, 27.3, by the entrance/exit to the underground tunnel to the Bat Galim train (corner of Hagana and Avraham Lisin) at 16:30 p.m.
See you tomorrow!
Best regards,
Elisheva Maletz
Community worker, West Haifa
Director of welfare and social services
Tel: 04-8354157 Fax: 04-8356507
Email: [email protected]
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Good for you
Yesssssss! 20 years I passed through the wet and dark tunnel. Finally there will be a beautiful and clean place