Not much protection

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In the sculpture garden of Rabin (Beilinson) Medical Center, Petah Tikva.
Please enlarge the photo to enjoy the nice details.

Here are some (big) words of interpretation by Tami Katz-Freiman which appear at the late Ofra Zimbalista's website:

. . . a woman in drapings hovers in the air holding an umbrella with holes . . .

Existential anguish, shame, and misery sometimes dress up as pride and bravura (like the woman holding the umbrella with holes in it), and as in Hanoch Levin’s plays they are depicted with humor and a sense of acceptance of fate. The silent figures portray their tragic situation with a sarcastic muteness.

The sense of muteness and almost religious submission are augmented by the deep ultramarine blue and the gold that glints out here and there in various places. The reduction to blue and gold, colors which have a distinctively metaphysical, spiritual (Christian) context, with a cultural meaning that is rich in symbolism (Virgin Mary, the Evil Eye, New Age), abstracts the realism of the figures, unifies them into a kind of fantastic realism, and distances them from prosaic everyday existence, to a poetic-allegoric-symbolic existence.

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Trees in the sculpture garden

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I'm still under the good impression of the Beilinson Medical Center, near Tel Aviv, that I visited last week.
Their sculpture garden has some nice art by famous Israelis.

Even the trees are decorated.

Easy to love these hanging pots and special flowers.

This olive tree is dedicated to Leah Rabin, who was a good friend of the hospital (the plaque says).
After Yitzhak Rabin was killed, several hospitals in Petah Tikva together took on the name Rabin Medical Center.
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Children's hospital

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I was surprised to see a little El Al Airlines airplane sitting on the lawn at Beilinson (Rabin) Medical Center.
It's a nice display but unfortunately for kids it has a sign saying no climbing on the wings.

It has the logo of Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, which is the building you see in the top photo.
I remember taking black and white photos of the corner-laying ceremony in the late 1980s.
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This brief video explains what the pieces of the puzzle stand for.
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A spiral of progress

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When I worked at Beilinson Hospital (near Tel Aviv) back in the mid 1980s, it was pretty much three or four old buildings.
I went back a few days ago and was astounded to see how Beilinson Medical Center has mushroomed!

They even have a beautiful sculpture garden in the middle of the campus.
Such a graceful bench spiral.
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