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Hello from Israel! Our hotel is right on the beach so we get beautiful views of the sunrises and sunsets and the people-watching is fun too. They play paddle ball on the beach instead of frisbee. I'd like to swim in the Mediterranean Sea but I ...
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... we have seen a lot of Tel Aviv...From modern shopping malls to ancient ruins we're never far from somehting of interest. Tel Aviv has so many elements of other places we have visited....New York and Rome for the culture and cosmopolitan street living ...
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... in Israel, so there is a lot of traffic and pedestrians out shopping and running errands. We drive to the Shalom Tower and hear about the founding of Tel Aviv, then walk along one of the original streets of the old city – Rothschild Boulevard. It ...
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... the city so you get a great overview of Tel Aviv. It is a huge city – much larger than I realized. The University of Tel Aviv is on a beautiful campus in north of the city with lots of fascinating museums. But as when visiting New York, there is ...
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... to Jerusalem but it turns out we had to take a complimentary bus to the "El Al Junction" and then wait for the bus to come from Tel Aviv city and pick us up on its way to Jerusalem. The ride is about 55 minutes without traffic with a steady climb into the ...
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Shalom! Shabot Shalom Tel Aviv, Israel Friday afternoon... everyone is getting ready for shabot, which was what I figured to be a big deal. Yet, in Tel Aviv the main influence shabot seemed to have was that no buses were running, the beach was really ...
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... were standing on a street corner, a motor scooter came by and I heard my name. It was my friends Dana and Sari who live in Tel-Aviv. They were out doing errands and happened to see us. We had breakfast together and caught up a bit. They left to go finish ...
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... our last blog that we would not be writing on Shabbat. What an amazing two days we've had in Jerusalem. On Friday, we left Tel Aviv and headed south to Jerusalem. Our first stop was Yad V'Shem, the Holocaust Museum. We took an hour and a ...
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... 1 hour 45 minutes, but they fed us a great meal/snack. It was cheese, tuna salad, fruit and a fresh roll. We landed in Tel Aviv around 3 am. The airport was beautiful! We checked into renting a car, but thought we should just rest at the airport a bit ...
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... days in this pleasant coastal city with its sidewalk cafes, and an inordinate number of shoe stores. Aside from the crazy drivers, Tel Aviv is a fairly laid back city with a good vibe. We said our tearful goodbyes to Simon, a wonderful travel companion, ...
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... most of the country shops, restaurants and even public transportation shut down for 24 hours of Shabbat observance....But this is Tel Aviv, and because of the secular nature of the city their observance of Sabbath is quite different....It's a time to go ...
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... race or religion. It was a very "interesting" experience. Another funny moment happened the other night. I went to a concert in Tel Aviv with Anna (from San Francisco), Nicole (from Australia) and Ophir. Ophir is a random Russian guy my friend in the ...
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... along the otherwise usually crowded highway and the streets of Jerusalem was very tranquil indeed. Whereas the coastal metropolitan area around Tel Aviv is mainly secular, the majority of Jews in Jerusalem are very religious, a large number of them ...
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... , and the grounds were beautifully landscaped. We took a nearby train to the home of Bonnie's cousins in a newer community halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, called Modi'in. We were picked up at the station, and the warm welcome we received was ...
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... a dead ringer for my dad!!). Harel and I spent a lazy Friday strolling down the fabulous promenade that runs along the Tel Aviv coastline. We had a late breakfast at a beachside restaurant and chatted about all sorts of things. Harel is an interesting ...
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... is a great fun. We started our journey back to TelAviv and finally reached there around 9.30 PM . During my remaining stay in Tel Aviv, I visited Shalom Tower which is one of the tallest buildings in Middle East. It is 142m tall and has 34 stories and an ...
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... looking down on the Swiss Alps and seeing beautiful green valleys dotted with little houses on roads winding through the mountainsides. Tel Aviv is as warm and fascinating as ever. We’ve spent the last day or so wandering the streets, having ...
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... dinner with us as well. It was too short but really good to see them. Our flights from SFO to Frankfurt and then FRA to Tel Aviv were uneventful...just the way you want them. We both preferred the Airbus that we flew here from Germany. It was an ...
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Hello World Hello World Hello World ...
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... and scale of cities and towns and the number of people that live throughout this unforgiving environment. We thought Tel Aviv was hot until we stpped off our bus at some of our tour stops, the heat was beyond description, and how ...