Nothing beats the Tel Aviv boardwalk at sunset - watching the sun slowly descend and then, in an instant, it disappears into the Mediterranean. The boardwalk is so alive with runners, walkers, families, dogs, people playing volleyball and soccer on the beach. Israelis living their best lives and not caring one iota what the rest of the world thinks about them.
.. thank you Vanessa for explaining the growth of amazing Tel Aviv … from day break, as the sun rises in the east, to walk on the beach from Hatarim Sq southwards, and back again, there is no better way to start the day .. Tel Aviv, 4 me, around Hayarkon and Gordon Street, is the centre of my world .. and I forgot to say, the tarte tatin at Bon Pâtisserie, junction of Ben Yehuda and Gordon, is just delicious .. 💙🇮🇱
Thanks Vanessa for a great piece. I love your opening illustration of the first settlers on the sand dunes. It resonated with my experience as a kid when my parents purchased a block of sand at the end of Havatselet Hasharon in Herzliya just north of Tel Aviv. It was 1960 (not 1909) and south of us there was just sand dunes for about a kilometer to a ma'abara where my brother David and I walked to visit some kids we knew braving the jackals that terrified us as kids. In a recent visit to Tel Aviv and Herzliya after too many decades of diasporic living those sand dunes are long gone: Tel Aviv is a truly amazing city and Herzliya is a very different place from where my pioneering parents chose to build our family home. I travelled back there from Melbourne in Australia in August last year and spent two weeks in Sderot Washington in Florentine, just the most amazing multi-ethnic vibrant neighborhood and Tel Aviv is such an extraordinary sort of city state within Israel, silicon wadi indeed! And a bicycle riders delight. A most informative cultural institution you did not mention is the new Tel Aviv-Yafo City Museum in Bialik Square, it is small, informative, innovative, a gem of a museum I visited three times, wonderful high tech interactive displays, choose your language English, Arabic or Hebrew, a very special place for anyone interested in the history of this magic city in amongst all the Bauhaus architecture and remaining buildings in that heritage part of Tel Aviv, a very moving institution: many thanks again for your piece, while history tells us we don't learn from history, good factual history matters!!
Albert Londres, in The Wandering Jew Has Arrived (1929), described Tel Aviv as "bright, spacious, sunny, and all white." In Tel Aviv, "Confidence replaced fear. And each one could stand at his window and shout, 'I am a Jew! This is my glory!' without risking being tied on the spot to the tail of a wild mare."
Nothing beats the Tel Aviv boardwalk at sunset - watching the sun slowly descend and then, in an instant, it disappears into the Mediterranean. The boardwalk is so alive with runners, walkers, families, dogs, people playing volleyball and soccer on the beach. Israelis living their best lives and not caring one iota what the rest of the world thinks about them.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thank you Vanessa Berg! (From Tel Aviv: Dizengoff and Basel intersection)
.. thank you Vanessa for explaining the growth of amazing Tel Aviv … from day break, as the sun rises in the east, to walk on the beach from Hatarim Sq southwards, and back again, there is no better way to start the day .. Tel Aviv, 4 me, around Hayarkon and Gordon Street, is the centre of my world .. and I forgot to say, the tarte tatin at Bon Pâtisserie, junction of Ben Yehuda and Gordon, is just delicious .. 💙🇮🇱
VIVA ISRAEL AND tel AVIV!
Nothing beats going out at midnight to the best falafel places in the world!
Thanks Vanessa for a great piece. I love your opening illustration of the first settlers on the sand dunes. It resonated with my experience as a kid when my parents purchased a block of sand at the end of Havatselet Hasharon in Herzliya just north of Tel Aviv. It was 1960 (not 1909) and south of us there was just sand dunes for about a kilometer to a ma'abara where my brother David and I walked to visit some kids we knew braving the jackals that terrified us as kids. In a recent visit to Tel Aviv and Herzliya after too many decades of diasporic living those sand dunes are long gone: Tel Aviv is a truly amazing city and Herzliya is a very different place from where my pioneering parents chose to build our family home. I travelled back there from Melbourne in Australia in August last year and spent two weeks in Sderot Washington in Florentine, just the most amazing multi-ethnic vibrant neighborhood and Tel Aviv is such an extraordinary sort of city state within Israel, silicon wadi indeed! And a bicycle riders delight. A most informative cultural institution you did not mention is the new Tel Aviv-Yafo City Museum in Bialik Square, it is small, informative, innovative, a gem of a museum I visited three times, wonderful high tech interactive displays, choose your language English, Arabic or Hebrew, a very special place for anyone interested in the history of this magic city in amongst all the Bauhaus architecture and remaining buildings in that heritage part of Tel Aviv, a very moving institution: many thanks again for your piece, while history tells us we don't learn from history, good factual history matters!!
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Albert Londres, in The Wandering Jew Has Arrived (1929), described Tel Aviv as "bright, spacious, sunny, and all white." In Tel Aviv, "Confidence replaced fear. And each one could stand at his window and shout, 'I am a Jew! This is my glory!' without risking being tied on the spot to the tail of a wild mare."