A Jewish education and tradition organization has announced that it will host Shabbat services on Fridays at the iconic "Colosseum" building in Tel Aviv, which until recently was the home of the notorious Pussycat strip club. Beit Tefilah has been hosting weekend events at Tel Aviv port area in recent years, now the weekly gathering will move to their new location, at least in the meantime - the circular building that was made infamous by the club that inhabited it in recent years. In one of the police raids on the club, officers discovered private rooms where customers could receive sexual services for NIS approx. The police also found that some of the women working at the club were foreigners. Drugs of various kinds were also found on the premises. Although the Pussycat club's business license was revoked in March , Tel Aviv municipality had begun a license renewal process.
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Sandwiched between the Sheraton and the Hilton hotels on some of the priciest real estate in Israel, the building on Atarim Square was home to the Pussycat, an upscale strip club popular with the rich and powerful. But the club closed down this summer following a legal fight, leading to its radical transformation into a hub for Jewish learning and social activism. The building that allegedly was a venue for prostitution and sex trafficking will now serve as a center for activism aimed at, among other things, empowering women from troubled backgrounds. The building that once housed the Pussycat has been transformed into a hub for Jewish learning and social activism. They threw open the dark velvet curtains that hung on the seafront windows, exposing a hidden stairway system that the strippers used to move unseen across the 8, square feet of the former club. Another curtain, obscuring a mosaic of erotic posters, was left in place. Underground, the club had two windowless bedrooms with shower stalls.
How Tel Aviv’s Pussycat strip club became a Jewish values center
The second floor — A VIP area that has a great view of the stage underneath. This floor offers a various of drinks on the bar counter as well. There are plenty of seats with a great view of the show. The strip club was established in the year
Sandwiched between the Sheraton and the Hilton hotels on some of the priciest real estate in Israel, the building on Atarim Square was home to the Pussycat, an upscale strip club popular with the rich and powerful. But the club closed down this summer following a legal fight, leading to its radical transformation into a hub for Jewish learning and social activism. The building that allegedly was a venue for prostitution and sex trafficking will now serve as a center for activism aimed at, among other things, empowering women from troubled backgrounds. They threw open the dark velvet curtains that hung on the seafront windows, exposing a hidden stairway system that the strippers used to move unseen across the 8, square feet of the former club. Another curtain, obscuring a mosaic of erotic posters, was left in place.