In and about Rambam Square (or is it Bialik Square) in Ramat Gan

We hung out a fair amount in and around Rambam Square.

This was partly because it is only a few feet from Beth's apartment. Also, there are numerous places to shop, sit or eat or walk around. As noted earlier, Children's Boulevard is just off the square and King David Garden is at the end of Children's Boulevard.

The first image shows, the side of the square to the east which is decked out for Independence Day (the banner says, "Independence Day in Ramat Gan).  In the background on the right is the HQ of the Ramat Gan Rabbanut where we went to several minyanim (they have a real Chazon). 

The next image shows the west side of Rambam square. Lots of blue and white banners are hung (color of Israel flag). I don't know the history of why the statue of the deer was placed there. The street on the south border of Rambam Square is Bialik Street (Beth lives at #50 Bialik Street). The statue of Bialik (left of the deer) has a nice fountain in front of it (right of the deer). 

The next image (also shown in a previous post), is taken from the north side of Rambam square and shows the square with the new 30 story 350' residential (I think condo based on the ads) building called Ordeo Tower a.k.a., Migdal Recital baKikar - 'Migdal' is hebrew for tower (the tower of Babel is a Migdal), a Kikar means square). 


The next to final image shows Bialik Street with the new Israel and Ramat Gan flags (the Ramat Gan flags all over the place were not there when we were in Israel a year previously). The trees on Bialik Street are called box or plane or brush trees and they keep the street relatively cool in the summer. In Isaiah 60:13, the prophet mentions three trees. The 2nd of those is thought to be the trees that are now on Bialik Street.

There is a small Chabad house on Bialik stree around the corner from where this final image is taken. Among the places I used to pray with a minyan was the large building in the first image and this Chabad house.  In the large building they had a Chazon and one day he did a 15 to 20 minute counting the Omer with lots of Chazzanut. In the Chabad house, on the 7th day of Passover, they had a Yizkor service that lasted only 3 minutes (no shiur, no recitation of a psalm). Both of these are records in my experience.