Florentine Tel Aviv

Entry containing 1 photo titled: Me hanging out with a bunch of random bank workers

Travel to kibbutz near West Bank for talk on what it is like to be an Israeli Arab View of West Bank Traveled to ecological greenhouse. Saw how they use Eco education to bridge the gap between Arabs and Jews Traveled to Yafo or Jaffa as it is known in English. Saw old city and old port. It is an Arab city and has become essentially the Arab quarter …

Tel Aviv is a complete contrast. Only an hour by bus from Jerusalem, suddenly we could be in any western city anywhere. The city is small - the population is only 400,000 but the cafe culture is strong and the average citizen fairly wealthy. So close to ...

Train to tel aviv, bus to old Jaffa. Checked in to old Jaffa hostel then strait to the beach. After long walk around town to find dinner, we stumbled across hundreds of books thrown in the corner of sidewalk. Came up on three books. Walked to the ...

... two in the morning, I headed to the airport (more on that below) knowing that once again, like everyplace else I’d been in Israel, Tel Aviv had turned out to be nothing like I had expected.  A lot of people I met there scoffed when I said that ...

... nation to euphoria. The night before Yom Ha’Atzma’ut is one of the biggest party nights in Israel, and Tel Aviv’s Florentine street party may be the craziest party in the country; it’s definitely the biggest. Street after street ...

... spending the night at the Lev, and having a leisurely breaky and cappuccino at a place called Pillsbury, I jumped on a sherut to Tel Aviv this afternoon. Booked Hayarkon for the night, because I was lucky enough to score a 4am flight to Athens. Awesome. ...

... but I can’t. Israel has been astounding in so many ways and I will always have so many great memories from this trip. Tel Aviv itself is somewhere I could see myself living: an Ottoman villa in Jaffa or a nice house with a shaded courtyard in Neve ...

... them again after so long. But first we went to stay at a hostel in Tel Aviv and visit the city for a few days. I loved Tel Aviv, especially after having spent so much time during the last few months in not so clean, run down places, it was a real joy to ...

... Arabs and Jews Traveled to Yafo or Jaffa as it is known in English. Saw old city and old port. It is an Arab city and has become essentially the Arab quarter of tel aviv. Famous for oranges and for ancient port New Years in tel aviv Florentine ...