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The mayor of Or Yehuda changed the face of the city by introducing new, uniquely aesthetic roundabouts : Tacky, Las Vegas hotel courtyards meet life-size recreations of country life. It`s a sight you simply couldn?t miss. Filming the squares at night shows off the roundabouts? elaborate lighting design, inviting an expressive soundtrack. All this against the backdrop of Or Yehuda night life ? joyriders encircling the roundabouts pumping out music, similar to a mating ritual in nature. The roundabouts give Or Yehuda a new, bold front in the face its residents harsh day-to-day life; as though the city underwent plastic surgery, crass yet at the same time revitalizing.

Avishai Sivan (1977, Israel) is a filmmaker, visual artist and published author. Sivan?s first feature film, "The Wanderer", premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2010, in the Directors? Fortnight section. The film won Best First Feature Film and Best Cinematography at the Jerusalem Film Festival 2010. His second film Visa, won Best Independent Feature Film at the Cinema South Festival 2013. Sivan?s documentary film, "Soap Opera of a Frozen Filmmaker", a seven-part video diary, won Best Experimental Film at the Jerusalem Film Festival, 2007. In 2010, Sivan received the Israel Ministry of Culture?s Cinema Prize. His first book, "Musings on Filmmaking whilst Cycling through the City", was published in 2011. Sivan is currently completing his second novel "Crook", and is in the process of shooting his third feature film "Tikkun", winner of Torino Film Lab Production Award. This film is made the additional support of The Jerusalem Film Fund and the Rabinovich Film Fund Cinema Project. Sivan also exhibits artwork in galleries in Israel and London.