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Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Beachfront

Tel Aviv’s glorious Mediterranean seafront stretches for 8.5 miles
(14 km) from the cliffs of Herzliya to the ancient city of Jaffa. Broad
expanses of sand are complemented by parks, restaurants and
cafés, high-rise hotels, and a yacht harbor. Both locals and tourists
flock here to swim or windsurf, sunbathe or play matkot (see p50), sip
a cold beer or dine on schnitzel and fries, and, of course, see and be
seen. The entire beachfront is paralleled by a pedestrian promenade
and by part of the city’s 81-mile (130-km) bike-path network.
Yarkon
1
Estuary
The pedestrian-only
Wauchope Bridge spans
the Yarkon River right
where it flows into the
Mediterranean. Along
both banks of the river,
the walkways and bicycle
paths of grassy HaYarkon
Park stretch inland to
Beaches
playgrounds, sport faci- 2
lities, and playing fields. Each of Tel Aviv’s beaches (above) has its
own personality. Metzitzim is popular with families;
Hilton has separate beaches for gays, surfers,
THE CITY’S HISTORY and dog owners; and Frishman and Gordon, lined
Jaffa has been a key with eateries, are popular with tourists. There is
port for thousands of a gender-segregated religious beach as well.
years – archeologists
Gordon
Jaffa Port
have found fortifications 3 4
dating from the 18th According to the Swimming
century BC – but Bible, it was from Jaffa Pool
neigh boring Tel Aviv was that Jonah set sail to This popular saltwater
founded only in 1909. meet the whale. Today, Olympic-size pool is
The new “garden city” the city’s picturesque right next to the marina.
grew very rapidly: it was port (below) is home to Like the two children’s
home to 2,000 residents fishing craft and sight- pools, it is refilled every
by 1920, 34,000 by 1925,
and, due to the arrival of seeing boats, while day with water pumped
Jewish refugees fleeing on shore the old ware- from a 492-ft (150-m)
the Nazis, 150,000 by houses house galleries deep saline well.
1937. Today Tel Aviv and cultural spaces.
houses over 500,000
people, including about
46,000 (two-thirds of
them Arabs) in Jaffa.

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