Hello, I'm a French primary school teacher living in Israel... my english is poor but i want to impr...
Hello, I'm a French primary school teacher living in Israel... my english is poor but i want to improve so please...:-)
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Tel-Aviv has been my city for almost 3 years now and I wanted to tell you about it...
I've been living in Tel-Aviv for 32 months now, both for personal and professional reasons.
Tel-Aviv is a strange city, dedicated to inspire attraction and repulsion at the same time.
Attraction for the splendid fine sand beach, triumphing youth over the Tayelet (walk), Yafo (Jaffa), splendid city which signed the beginning of this metropolis, its quasi-permanent sun, its noisy and coloured souks, its kiosks with falafel and chawarmas, its eclectic population, the everlasting festival which reigns there, an incredible mixture of young people in bathing suits and orthodox Jews whom I saw dancing the techno music on a vanwhich looked 60s, in the (vain)hope of engaging the debate with the so-called lost youth...
Repulsion
for dilapidated districts, the homeless who recently make their appearance and whom, here like elsewhere, one does not seem to be worried about, the strikes of cleaning serices that forced me to make a turning of 500m everyday during 2 weeks to go home, in order to avoid a heap of damaged chicken legs coming from the close souk... (souk=market)
For a majority of Israelis who do not know that it is correct to collect its waste abandoned on the beach after a picnic . For the drivers who have the horn well too easy...
To be seen in Tel-Aviv &&&&&&&&&&
The old town of Jaffa """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
It is the base of Tel-Aviv. With its paved alleys and its tortuous lanes which curve through the massive stone fortifications which surround the city, it stimulates imagination. The history of Jaffa goes up with the flood, and it becomes Jewish city only in 1948. In 1963, it is rebuilt and renovated. Today, one finds a colony of artists there, art galleries, shops of craft industry, delicious fish restaurants. To see in Jaffa: the Tower of the Clock which announces the entry of the old city, the Mahmoudia mosque, the museum of Antiquities, the church franciscaine and the monastery Saint-Louis, the mosque of Jama El-Baher, the Armenian church, the Turkish of El-Hamam, splendid manor, the path of the Horoscope and the famous market with antiquities. Jaffa, it is the diamond of Tel-Aviv, a princess who would have generated a monster. I adore it.
The Shalom Tower and the Yemeni district """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" It is the district where I live; close to the Shalom Tower, ultramodern, is spread out the Yemeni district which kept 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...
Allenby, Dizengoff, George ha-Melekh, Sheinkin.."""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" If you like shops of any kind, coffees,discotheques... those streets are made for you! All located in the same area, they offer hours of shopping and relaxation. With regard to the shopping centres, I prefer the Azrieli Canyon, further in the east (bus 63).
The museum of the Diaspora """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" It presents the life of the Jews in exile for 2500 years; it is an informative museum, few valuable articles, but clear exposures, superb models of the European, American, Asian synagogues... I liked it very much.
Compared to Jerusalem, the splendid town of Israel, Tel-Aviv undoubtedly does not deserve to be called a "beautiful" city, but it deserves that one stops there, that one is delayed there and that one seeks to unearth the hidden pearls of it...
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