To celebrate, we walked from our apartment down to a neighborhood street party in the Neve Tsedik / Florentine neighborhoods. The city of Tel Aviv-Yafo had officially declared a "no open alcohol / street parties" policy this year (past years have been well organized, we were told, with on-street DJs, bars, etc) but the city decided there were too many days that this was taking place (Independence Day, White Night, etc). The neighborhood fought back by holding it anyway.
So the city sent down their security forces to "keep the peace." As you may be able to see from the middle picture here, these guys aren't like your friendly neighborhood police (although they seemed friendly enough). They are border patrol types, or so I was told. The lower picture is one of those hi-tech mobile command centers that was parked at one end of the street.
There were a dozen or so blocks with wall to wall teenagers hanging out. It appeared that everyone over 18 had gone into the bars. We met our friends Tali and Yair and went up to their apartment for a more subdued drink and chat. Then we walked home around 3am. By the time we reached home my dogs were barking - we had walked a 5K to bring in the New Year!
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