TEL-AVIV AND IT'S CULTURE

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Starting in 1976 and until 1993 Diss is Culture Director Nava Dissentshik served as secretary, Chef de Cabinet and Assistant to the Mayor for Cultural Affairs in Tel Aviv Israel.One could argue that from the day of its establishment the city of Tel-Aviv  adopted a policy to position itself as the cultural and business center of the country. It was an uphill battle in more ways than one against Haifa with its port and Jerusalem then a cosmopolitan city and the center of government.

One could make an argument that the battle was finally won when during the second half of the nineteen seventies Tel Aviv adopted an aggressive cultural  strategy which was aimed at positioning the city without question as the cultural center of the country with all the resulting benefits.

The city invested more in the major institutions, built artists studios, created a program that turned bomb shelters into studios and introduced a major public sculpture program. The new Israeli Opera was established as well as the Performing Art Center. Artists were receiving personal attention.

Dissentshik was the driving force behind the execution of the strategy and initiated several of these programs.  She was referred to by Moshe Gershuni one of Israel's most important painters as the "mother of the artists of Tel Aviv".