Zichron Ja’akow Highschool
My first educational lecture. 12 grade hight school at Sunday
morning 8.15. After everybody (including me!) was awake, we had a good
time and at the end we made something like a 4 meter drawing
on the Dreawing machine together.
Zikhron Ya’akov (Hebrew: זִכְרוֹן יַעֲקֹב, lit. “Jacob’s Memorial”; often shortened to just Zikhron; Arabic: زخرون يعكوف) is a town in Israel, 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Haifa, and part of the Haifa District. It is located at the southern end of the Carmel mountain range overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, near the coastal highway (Highway 2). It was one of the first Jewish settlements of Halutzim in the country, founded in 1882 by Baron Edmond James de Rothschild and named in honor of his father, James Mayer de Rothschild. (Wikipedia)
Clil
I was invited by Yael an artist living in Clil, her mother Tami hosted me (she is an artist too and runs a cafe in clil). Yael introduced me to Ygal a painter with german roots. So we started drawing
and had long and intense talkings about Israel and Germany, roots and history of family and living inside nature.
Always with a view to the bay of haifa.
Just about 10 km from the border to the Libanon nobody would expect a place of peace,freedom and respect like this.
Text from Clil Guesthouse:
“Clil looks like no other village in Israel, a widely dispersed, ecologically attuned community nestled in the foothills of the Western Galilee overlooking the Mediterranean.
It is considered to be Israel’s first ecological village. It was built in 1979 by a group of philosophers and artists who had the vision of creating an alternative village, close to nature, living according to ecological and organic ideas.
Clil is not connected to the main power grid and therefore completely powered by solar energy. Locals try to respect the nature and preserve local plants and natural forests. There is no use of pesticides or chemicals on any of the produce grown in the area. There are also no street lights in Clil and houses are spread far apart from each other, so it is the perfect place to star gaze and enjoy the night with minimal light pollution.”