A list of recent and upcoming demonstrations, workshops, meetings and political tours in Tel Aviv. Download the full DIY Tel Aviv Guide for a full list of alternative community centres, grassroots organisations, study tours, volunteering opportunities and more.
Pay attention, people and get your choosing hat on. It’s looking like another big weekend. Tonight The big news is Diplo and Jackmaster at the Block. Big line up, big party, not cheap. You can still get 100NIS (+booking fee)...
At this moment in time, there are 20 Eritrean refugees trapped on Israeli soil between the new border fence and the old. The army won’t give them any food and the orders the soldiers have received are to give them...
Got this in an email this morning. The following is the text provided by the organisers. Sounds interesting, so if you’re not afraid of hard truth and hard walking, contact them for more details and to sign up (details on...
It’s been a while since I’ve written about activism/politics related stuff, so here are a few interesting things happening soon. First up, there’s a showing of the film Gasland this Saturday (25.8) at Beit Haam (Rothschild 69) at 18:00. It’s...
Lots of things going on tonight, luckily DIY Tel Aviv is here to explain what’s going on. Firstly, there are two social justice demos tonight, but only one of them is the real deal. The other one’s sort of been...
If you’re in Tel Aviv for slightly longer than tourist time, you may be interested in this. A while back, some fuckers threw a molotov cocktail into a makeshift kindergarten for asylum seekers’ children that’s been set up in the...
Tonight there are actually two so-called social justice demos in Tel Aviv (the Israeli version of the Occupy movement). Unfortunately, one of them is not very secretly funded by tycoons and people with political interests, so it’s not really worth...
Today there is another queer Palestinian party in Tel Aviv. I’ve only just found out it’s on, so I’m putting it up here in case people want to go. These are really fun parties and a great chance to mingle...
The Black Night initiative is the protest’s response to tonight’s White Night events. You can join in on all the fun by meeting at 21:30 at Rothschild Blvd., dressed in black if possible. From there, there will be a march...
This Thursday in Tel Aviv is the city municipality sanctioned White Night event. Apart from a few big events directly sponsored and planned by the city council itself, many smaller events are planned across the city by private art galleries,...
An interesting photo exhibition at Bait Banamal (Tel Aviv port) – photos by twenty 12 year old Palestinian children living in and around Nablus, aiming to capture their daily lives, as well as people, objects and places that hold significance...
Tonight there’s yet another demo in Tel Aviv (surprising, I know). It’s at Habima Square at 22:00 and is a response to yesterday’s demo at the same place that resulted in some shocking scenes of police brutality (shocking because it...
If you’re at all interested in the global Occupy movement and you’re around in Israel on the 21-22 of this month (June 2012) then you’ll want to check out the interesting conference that’s going to be happening. Activist leaders from...
After my previous overview of the Tel Aviv Pride parties, I’m happy to report about the only queer party during pride week where the only pinkwashing you’ll see is in people’s hair. On June 8th from 21:00 at the Rogatka...
This isn’t my usual thing, but I’m putting it here as this is for a good cause. If you like Israeli music then you may be interested to know that tonight there’s a fundraiser on for the Shapira neighbourhood afer...
Tomorrow night it’s dinner and a movie night at the Rogatka vegan bar. The documentary film club will be showing “Have you heard from Johannesburg” here is the description of the film: seven documentary stories, produced and directed by Connie...
Tomorrow is the global day of action for the 99% and Tel Aviv will be having its own (hopefully) massive demo. The main event will be at Rabin Square. There will be marches coming out of various southern neighbourhoods to...
The refugee clinic at the Tel Aviv central bus station building is a 100% volunteer run humanitarian clinic offering free medical services to the country’s growing population of predominantly African asylum seekers. They are in desperate need of volunteers both...
Levinsky Jam is a fun event that’s been happening at Levinsky Garden (opposite the new central bus station) for a while now. Refugees and locals get together for a drumming circle and people who play other instruments are also invited...
Combatants for Peace are holding their annual joint memorial day ceremony this Tuesday at Hangar 11 in the Tel Aviv port. This is an alternative ceremony attended by bereaved families from both sides of the conflict. There will be speeches...