נוה צדקנו (2009)

Our Neve Zedek is the movie of Tomer Chelouche and filmmaker-artist Tali Tiller. The making of the movie was commissioned by the Descendants of Aron Chelouche Fund in order to commemorate the centennial year of Tel-Aviv. Its debut screening took place at the Descendants of Aron Chelouche Family Reunion, held on October 6th 2009 in Tel-Aviv.

Our Neve Zedek combines the story of Tel-Aviv on its 100th anniversary with the story of the Chelouche family since its arrival to the Land of Israel, from Jaffa, through Neve-Zedek to Ahuzat-Bayit which later became Little Tel-Aviv. From the story of the family rises the forgotten story of the history of Tel-Aviv. Suddenly it seems that maybe the city didn't miraculously grow from the sand dunes. Maybe Tel-Aviv does have a little history, and many of its chapters were written by the Chelouche family before the establishment of Ahuzat-Bayit in 1909 and afterwards.

Our Neve Zedek introduces four generations of ancestors - Avraham Chelouche, who renewed the Jewish community of Jaffa; his son Aron Chelouche, who built his house in Neve-Zedek, the first Jewish neighborhood outside the walls of Jaffa, that was built upon his lands; the children of Aron Chelouche, who left the family house in Neve-Zedek and moved to the first neighborhoods of Tel-Aviv, and three of them also participated in the construction of Ahuzat-Bayit; and the grandsons of Aron Chelouche, who shaped the financial and cultural nature of Little Tel-Aviv.

Our Neve Zedek presents three generations of descendants - grandfathers and grandmothers, who were children in Little Tel-Aviv of the 1920's and the 1930's and witnessed the establishment of the State of Israel; their children, who were born in the second half of the 20th century and are now parents; and one young fellow, in his 20's, 5th generation to Aron Chelouche, who is the creator of this movie and appears in it as a narrator.