“My Israeli friends tell me, ‘After the rockets, now you can officially call yourself an Israeli,’” Tarantino shared with the country’s Yediot Aharonot newspaper in a 2021 interview. Within his first few years in Israel, Tarantino experienced an armed conflict between Israel and Hamas in May 2019. Since then, the Oscar-winning director has become a regular Tel Aviv dad - the type locals regularly encounter walking down the street or attending a toddler’s birthday party with his kid at a local playground (where he joyfully hummed to “Happy Birthday” in Hebrew). Then the pandemic hit - and he never left. Tarantino settled in after wrapping up production on 2019’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” planning to split time between Tel Aviv and LA. (The director still owns an apartment in New York City along with a Los Angeles home he bought in 1989 where he and Pick were married.) Shortly after marrying, the couple bought a six-bedroom, 2,900-square-foot villa on Elkakhi Street in Ramat Aviv Gimmel, a quiet neighborhood in northern Tel Aviv and within spying distance of the Mediterranean. (A follow-up tweet earlier this month noted that there are now two such little ones in Israel.) “A person exists whose father is Quentin Tarantino and grandfather is Svika Pick,” marveled viral tweets in Hebrew following Leo’s birth. When the couple’s son Leo - named for his maternal great-grandfather, not Dad’s frequent star DiCaprio - was born in February 2020, for Israelis it was a merging of two cultural icons. Quentin Tarantino riding the bite at TLV Moti Lebton and Pplus Her father is Svika Pick, an iconic 1970s Israeli pop musician with long locks and an eccentric sense of style, and she’s a musician herself - in the early 2000s she and her sibling Sharona were in a band called The Pick Sisters. Pick is practically royalty in Israel, where she’s been as famous as Tarantino since birth. Tarantino, 59, and Pick, 38, met back in 2009 when he premiered his film “Inglorious Basterds” in Israel, dating on and off before marrying in an intimate reform Jewish ceremony at their Beverly Hills home nine years later. Tarantino and Pick initially intended to split their time between Los Angeles and Tel Aviv, but made Israel their main base during the early days of the pandemic lockdown in 2019. Tel Aviv might seem an unexpected landing for Tarantino - but it may just be his happily ever after. The darkly humorous director of such movies as “Pulp Fiction” and “Kill Bill” has been living a low-key life in the sunny Mediterranean metropolis for three years. “I heard he was there from our midwife but never saw Tarantino,” said Carnie, an actress who delivered her daughter at the same time at Ichilov. So much so that the other expectant mothers on the floor had no idea they were keeping company with an Oscar winner. He and his wife, Daniella Pick, were expecting their second child, a girl to join their 2-year-old son, Leo - but as has become their style in Israel, the Tarantinos were hiding in plain sight. ![]() It took a full day for the Israeli press to get word that Quentin Tarantino was hanging around the obstetrics ward of Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital in early July. Mark Wahlberg: Faith is not popular in Hollywood, but it’s important to me Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 16 years in LA rape case, slams victim and calls it a ‘setup’ ‘Rust’ armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed can keep gun at home: judge Gregory Peck’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ script sells for over $84K
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