But activists are angry that the developers landed such a sweet deal to build up some of the last open areas in the neighborhood, after allowing the Dolphinarium to rot for decades. In the s, architect Nahum Zolotov, a diving enthusiast, hatched the idea for a dolphin show in Tel Aviv. But the Dolphinarium soon ran into trouble: The South African business partners, some reportedly with mafia contacts, were using the business as a laundering operation to move money to Europe and were eventually forced to leave the project.
Without the high-rolling South African backers, the cost of running the exorbitantly expensive dolphin shows eventually drained the business, and the Dolphinarium closed just four years later, in The dolphins found their way to a new home in aquariums abroad but died a few weeks after their transfer.
Over the past three decades, some businesses, including movie theaters, catering halls, night clubs, and sport shops have tried to utilize parts of the enormous structure for various initiatives, but with limited success, and most of it has stayed empty.
On June 1, , a young man walked up to a group of teenagers who were waiting to get into the Dolphinarium discotheque, a popular spot for teenage immigrants from the former Soviet Union on a busy Friday night.
While waiting in line, the Hamas-affiliated terrorist detonated explosives strapped to his body, killing 21 teenagers and injuring more than Since then, the abandoned structure has been a daily reminder of one of the worst terror attacks of the Second Intifada.
The Tel Aviv municipality has been itching to take a wrecking ball to the structure for decades, threatening for the first time as early as The municipality plans to build a continuation of the promenade, public parks, and a community center for sea sports, according to a municipality spokeswoman.
The demolitions should take two months. Last week, passersby generally celebrated the impending demolition, and said they had almost stopped noticing the building but that it would be good to see it gone. The Tel Aviv municipality first tried to push the land swap deal in They promised land owner Josef Buchmann, the German-Jewish businessman who purchased the Dolphinarium in the late s, 12 dunams 3 acres on a plot of land across the street around the Hassan Bek mosque, to build apartments and a room hotel, according to the deal announced in The dunam plot across the street has a value of around NIS 1 billion, Globes reported.
Such subsidiaries include real estate developments and projects in a limited number of special economic zones, as well as restaurants. My group of visitors had invited our minders and translators for a meal at Italy Pizza, and I sat next to a young man who identified himself, in fluent English, as a lecturer at the Pyongyang University of Foreign Languages.
He told me he had been intrigued by pizzas ever since seeing them in English-language movies as a student. No one got up to sing.
With dark wood finishing and a painting of Mount Paektu on its exposed brick walls, Taedonggang is a gaudy interpretation of a European pub. I ordered No. When I visited the hamburger place on a weekend afternoon — the menu said it was owned by the Sogwang High-Tech Corporation but did not advertise a name for the restaurant — the only other patrons were young couples who looked like students.
The couples, using their Arirang smartphones, made in North Korea and running a version of the Android operating system, snapped photos of their burgers before eating.
The apartment towers here are said to house professors and employees of the Kim Chaek University of Technology, but few buildings seem occupied — and even fewer seemed to have electricity when I walked by one evening.
In January, when temperatures in Pyongyang routinely drop below freezing, the apartments were reported to be without functioning heat or water. The onslaught of all five of them, in six weeks, constitutes an outbreak of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hostility at the Times. However, when the Times published its May 23 editorial on the Manchester attack, it failed to mention the Dolphinarium attack, and thereby omitted the suicide bombing most similar to the Manchester attack in its targeting of children.
At least 1, Israelis have been killed in terrorist attacks since the Oslo accords that were intended to foster Israeli-Palestinian peace.
How many more Israeli casualties are needed before the New York Times starts to cover them as it would European victims? Originally written for the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Noah Beck is the author of The Last Israelis , an apocalyptic novel about Iranian nukes and other geopolitical issues in the Middle East.
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