Advantages: a modern and old, Eastern and Western city Disadvantages: To all the politicians, it is necessary to rehabilitate!
...its
exotic and sinuous streets. It's a pity that this district is really
not rehabilitated... today, one mainly finds there Filipinos who
rent (bus often in irregular situation) true slums
at a price higher than my appartement, ok small, but brand new... two steps
from my home, the largest market of Tel-Aviv, the Souk-ha-Carmel, as
well as a central bus station ...... and Tayelet (walk)
50m far... brilliant! The sea opens its arms to me... :-)
Neve Tsedek """""""""""""""""
It is the district where my school is;
one of the first districts of Tel-Aviv, it appears that 20 more years
ago, it was the reference place for drugged people and girls of poor reputation .But now, rehabilitated, it is a
beautiful district with a superb public garden callec Suzanne Dellal, very
beautiful houses with an exhorbitant cost, a theatre...
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Advantages: not on the tourist route Disadvantages: pretty façade, partly ugly backyard
...on the plane.
We aren’t pious and didn’t intend to go on a pilgrimage and tick off all the holy sites Israel has to offer, we decided to stay in TelAviv (where the international airport is) for two days to shake off winterly Germany and then to go on to Jerusalem for six days. TelAviv gave us what we had been looking for and more than was necessary to make us happy: we arrived in the middle of a hot spell, when we landed at midnight it was 22° C, ten degrees more than at home at noon!
TelAviv is the most modern metropolis of the whole Middle East with ~ 377 000 inhabitants in the city proper (greater TelAviv is the city with the largest Jewish population in the world), it’s the financial and cultural centre of Israel. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, for a period of eight months during the Arab blockade of Jerusalem, it also served...
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Advantages: Location, Locatin, Location! Disadvantages: None really - see text
...I had to attend a conference in TelAviv, Israel. The conference was in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, so it made sense to stay there!
In Israel the currency is the New Israeli Shekel, which in this review will be called NIS. When I changed my money at Heathrow, the exchange rate was 7.79 NIS to the £. Some of the cost was in US $ so the exchange rate that was on my credit card statement was $1.81 to the £
*** Before I got there ***
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I didn't know how to get from TelAviv airport, to the hotel, so while still in the UK I sent the hotel an email asking if there was a courtesy bus. They promptly responded, telling that there wasn't, but the ways to get to the hotel were either by train, bus (number 222...
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