The City That Never Sleeps
Entertainment and action galore for revelers and vacationers of every stripe - that's Tel Aviv, proud to live up to its distinction as "The City That Never Sleeps." Throughout Tel Aviv, many pubs and bars open early in the afternoon and don't close until an hour or two before dawn. Many feature live music at least once a week - everything from "dance" and "house" to Middle Eastern, reggae to rock, and jazz to blues.
Night clubs and dance clubs open their doors around 11 pm or midnight and rarely close before 3 or 4 - if then! Ethnic nightclubs draw patrons of all ages and feature performers and entertainers from just about every community making up the city's complex social fabric. Artists presenting repertoires that reflect the entertainment culture of Turkey, Iran, Greece, Israel, and Russia abound in Tel Aviv, especially in Jaffa and the "Little Tel Aviv district in the north of the city, but not only there.

After midnight the serious nightlife scene begins, as Tel Aviv's younger residents in particular flock to the dance clubs in south Tel Aviv and Allenby Street, or, in the summer, to the beaches and the Tel Aviv and Jaffa ports, where the partying often continues until after dawn. One significant focus of late-night action in south Tel Aviv is Lilienblum St. and the surrounding area, with their ever growing number of bars, bistros and restaurants.   Neve Tzedek, not far away, is another focal point for night life.

One more area of the city that also has been developing as a hub for nightlife, dining and fun is farther north, located between the old Tel Aviv Port and the Hayarkon Estuary. Elsewhere in Tel Aviv too, newer nightspot areas are also developing - and the number of clubs and discos in the city, spotlighting just about every type of music to dance to, has transformed it into a center of entertainment and merriment that is second to none and has been earning a reputation abroad as well as at home..

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The Malls Experience

In recent years, Israelis have become addicted to malls; Tel Avivans are no exception. Some of the more popular are Dizengoff Center, the up-market Ramat Aviv shopping center north of the city, "Canion Ayalon" in Ramat Gan and "Canion Givataim." The Gan Ha'Ir Shopping Center by the Tel Aviv Municipality is also well favored. Adjacent to Tel Aviv's City Hall, its shops sell exclusive, expensive household goods, jewelry, watches, etc. and feature the latest designs from Israel and abroad. The Opera Tower is yet another part of the city's up-market shopping mall scene. This edifice, which also serves as a luxury apartment complex, contains a relatively small shopping mall but it is conveniently located opposite the beach, at Allenby Street. Here, shops stock exclusive furniture, artwork, Judaica, ceramics, jewelry clothing and accessories.

More than just a shopping mall, the Azrieli Center Mall exists as part of a skyscraper - by Tel Aviv standards - office complex. For those who prefer their shopping western-style in spacious air-conditioned malls, this is the place to go. In addition to a wide range of chain outlets, fast-food restaurants, movie theaters and department stores, it also features excellent views of the city and the Mediterranean Coast from atop one of the towers, on the 45th floor.

In Herzliya, just a very short ride from Tel Aviv, the Arena Mall is located on the Herzliya Marina. Along with a wide variety of shops and boutiques, it also features a range of good restaurants.



If shopping the old-fashioned way is your pleasure, Dizengoff Street, where the northern section has been transformed in recent years as a center for designer fashion, still has much to offer; so does Kikar Hamedina, in the northern part of the city, one of Tel Aviv's most exclusive shopping areas, with a cosmopolitan ambience. For those in search of a more expensive memento of Israel , the art and antique galleries situated in the alleyways of Old Jaffa, are a joy. This is also a wonderful strolling and window shopping area.

Other areas in Tel Aviv of potential interest to tourists and avid shoppers include Shenkin and Bogashrov streets - Tel Aviv's Soho districts - full of designer shops with current fashion for youth, as well as accessories, jewelry and other unusual items. On Ben Yehuda Street are shops offer top-quality merchandise, including leather goods, carpets from around the world, antiques and interesting souvenir, and there a number that specialize in Judaica. Another area where tefillin, mezzuzoth and bar mitzvah accessories are concentrated is near Tel Aviv's Great Synagogue, on Allenby Street.

Tel Aviv - Jaffa On The Mediterranean



The Sea & the Shore

Welcome to Tel Aviv, one of the world's most unique seaside metropolises, a combination of beach, culture, activities, nightlife and just plain fun!

The Mediterranean shore in the Greater Tel Aviv area, stretching from upmarket Herzliya, north of the city - Israel's "Silicon Valley" with its modern marina - to Bat Yam in the south, features kilometers of clean, supervised beachfront and a vortex of activity all the year-round; however, there is much more to do here than merely enjoy the wonderful beaches and sea. A range of water sports is readily available, including scuba diving for both beginners and experienced divers: lessons for neophytes and - for the more experienced - the marine life beneath Jaffa Port, where a sunken Israeli navy boat is a major attraction. Other water sports options include surfing, snorkeling, kitesurfing and water skiing, with sailing boats, kayaks and water sports equipment available for rental.

The promenade, which extends along the Tel Aviv shoreline from the Hayarkon Estuary in the North to the entrance to Old Jaffa in the South - the stretch of beachfront along which most of the city's major hotels are located - is always alive with strollers, joggers, vendors, musicians and mimes, and lots of fun. Restaurants and snack bars are ever-present along the promenade and the waters of the Mediterranean are shared by swimmers and "dippers," surfers, windsurfers, boaters and the like. The Tel Aviv Marina can berth 300 sailboats and yachts - with many more available in similar facilities in Jaffa and Herzliya.

Tel Aviv Night ,

For those who prefer not to get their feet wet, a sedate evening excursion out of Jaffa Port beckons, complete with a few cocktails on the deck of a cruiser and as you watch the sun set into the Mediterranean Sea. Groups with more time on their hands may prefer to charter a yacht and sail out of Tel Aviv along the coast, to the ancient picturesque seaport of Acre in the North. Winds in Israel are particularly good in the spring and fall and in the late afternoons during the summer months, and the Mediterranean Sea is a sailor's paradise.

Tel Aviv - Jaffa On The Mediterranean



Shopping in Tel Aviv

Israel's cosmopolitan nerve center, the heart of its commerce, the focus of sea, entertainment and fun, Tel Aviv also is known for its broad and varied selection of shopping opportunities. Aside from antiques, upscale products for which Tel Aviv is well known include locally designed furs, diamonds - cut and polished in Israel - and leatherwear that is available at a wide range of stores.

There are several main markets in Tel Aviv, each with its own unique character, where you can find interesting food and other staples at true bargain price. The Bezalel Market is located in the heart of Tel Aviv near Allenby and King George streets; now that most of its landmark felafel stands have been uprooted to make room for what will eventually be upmarket high rises, it is of interest primarily for the clothing shops that offer great deals and surprising finds.

Located next to Bezalel, the Carmel Market, stretching westwards from Allenby Street towards the seafront, is the largest and busiest market in Tel Aviv - or in Israel, for that matter. Spices, pickled treats, fresh fruits and vegetables, flowers, meat and fish, household goods, baking goods and more: quantities are enormous and the prices are low. Rub shoulders with a cross-section of Israel in this market's crowded and bustling streets and lanes; enjoy the stall vendors as they pitch their wares. You may not understand the language, but there's no escaping the exuberance. It is the essence of Tel Aviv's Eastern character and is also the place to find excellent bargains. Savor the noise, smell and excitement. The vendors are friendly characters who patter best in Hebrew and even sing the praises of their goods, but will also enjoy babbling in English if they notice a visitor. The adjoining Yemenite Quarter (Kerem HaTeimanim) offers an excellent choice of ethnic restaurants.

Also nearby is the Nachlat Binyamin Pedestrian Mall, an old section of the city renovated and gentrified in recent years. A place to see and be seen, it is loaded with shops and outdoor cafes and features some of Tel Aviv's most beautifully restored old architecture. Look for the Bauhaus style in particular. Twice a week, on Tuesday and Friday, Nachlat Binyamin turns into an arts & crafts street bazaar. Craftsmen showcase their original works and you are certain to find special ceramics, leather goods or jewelry trinkets and souvenirs. To gladden the time even more, mall entertainment is provided by street musicians, clowns, magicians and mimes.

Jaffa: The Last 125 Years

Starting in the late 19th century Jaffa prospered, as thousands of Jews returning to their ancestral homeland, landed there. But the British, who had captured all of the Land of Israel from the Turks in 1917, needed a deep water port for 20th-century shipping and Jaffa did not fit the bill. Thus, it began to fall by the wayside.

Meanwhile, Tel Aviv had developed its own small port to the North. Nevertheless, as Tel Aviv grew into Israel's largest city and economic and cultural capital, Jaffa also developed as an integral part of the metropolis. Today, the narrow alleyways and ancient fishing port of Old Jaffa contrast with the pulsating modernity of Tel Aviv immediately to the north.

As a Mediterranean port city steeped in heritage and tradition, Jaffa is a perfect venue for tourism of many types, and now the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa has been working to remodel and renovate it with an eye to transforming this area into a major attraction for tourists from all over the world.
Attention has been focused already on the flea market itself and the Turkish clocktower, a new boutique hotel will occupy the space of the old police station at the entrance to the city and other work is being carried out - or in various stages of planning - to transform the northern entrance to Jaffa into a vibrant tourism destination. In addition, plans have been developed for renewing the Old City and adjacent Old Jaffa Port and for taking advantage of this neighborhood, close to the sea, as a site for further development that will also include the construction of new hotels.



In order to savor Jaffa's true maritime spirit, it is worth relaxing at one of the fish restaurants around the ancient harbor, arriving at the harbor via the steep winding steps of the Old City. The port houses simple fishing boats as well as some modern yachts (but grandiose plans to transform the quayside into a high-tech marina with surrounding luxury apartments have so far been thwarted by environmentalists).
Jaffa is especially popular at nights, when the balmy Mediterranean air is tempered by sea breezes. Israelis and tourists alike enjoy strolling through the alleyways, stopping at a cafe, restaurant or night club. The Noga Theater and annual cultural events like "Jaffa Nights," a series of free outdoor summertime concerts by leading Israeli musicians, make this ancient town a major center for leisure-time activities.

Tel Aviv - Jaffa Museums



Non Stop Culture: Museums


As befits a modern Israeli city with an ancient past, Tel Aviv boasts a number of fine museums dedicated to various aspects of Jewish and/or local culture and history.

Visiting the Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora (Beth Hatefutsoth), located on the campus of Tel Aviv University, is a unique experience. The museum relates the story of the Jewish people from the time of their expulsion from the Land of Israel 2500 years ago, to the present. History, tradition and the heritage of Jewish life in all parts of the world are brought here to life in murals, reconstructions, dioramas, audio-visual displays, documentary films and interactive multi-media presentations. In the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center visitors can search a computerized database containing genealogies of Jewish families from all over the world and can register their own family trees.


Nearby, the Eretz Israel Museum, situated on the 12th-century B.C. Tel Qasile archeological site, features a variety of pavilions, each of which deals with a different archeological, anthropological or historical facet of the history of the Land of Israel: glass; ceramics; copper; numismatics; post & philately, ethnography & folklore, and more. Another attraction at this museum is the Lasky Planetarium, offering modern and interesting inter-active "space rides" and space exhibitions. The latest section of the facility to be opened is "Land of the Baron," a new permanent exhibit and a "museum within a museum," dedicated to the Rothschild family, one of the great benefactors these past few hundred years, to the Jewish people and later to the Jewish State.



In the area around Tel Aviv University, a couple of newer museums have been opened in recent years - or are in the process of opening - transforming this pleasant part of the city into Tel Aviv's new "Museum Mile."
The Palmach Museum is an experiential museum, covering the legacy of the Palmach (the acronym for "Plugoth Mahatz," Hebrew for "Striking Force") through the stories of individuals and groups associated with it, from the time it was established in 1941 to aid the British war effort in defense of the Land of Israel, until its disbanding and integration into the Israel Defense Forces. There are no displays or documents, but rather an account of a fascinating personal story accompanied by three-dimensional decor, films and various effects incorporating documentary materials.





The tour - for groups only and subject to prior reservations - commences and ends in the commemorative hall for the Palmach fighters who died during the struggle for the establishment of the State of Israel.

Another new facility, situated between the Eretz Israel and Palmach museums, is the Yitzhak Rabin Center, designed by world-renowned Israeli-born architect Moshe Safdie, which includes a museum dedicated to the life of Israel's former Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, who was assassinated in 1995.

Closer to the city center, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, along with its collection of works that includes just about every well-known Israeli artist of the 20th century, has on permanent exhibit European and American paintings, including those of international acclaim ranging from the Dutch old masters to the Impressionists to modern art of world acclaim. The museum also serves as a venue for performing arts and cinema.