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Tel Aviv-Jaffa 6
NEED TO KNOW Nemal Tel Aviv St; shops Beachfront
closed on Sunday; www.
MAP E3 1
yarid-hamizrach.co.il
Visitor Information: 46 5
Herbert Samuel Prom; (03) Jaffa Port: www.namal HAYARKON BEN YEHUDA
516 6188; open 9:30am– yafo.co.il 4
6:30pm Sun–Thu, 9am– Gordon Swimming Pool: 9 TEL
2pm Fri; www.visit-tel- open 1:30pm–9pm Sun, 0 AVIV
aviv.com 6am–9pm Mon–Thu, 6am– 2 HERBERT SAMUEL
Jaffa Artists’ Quarter: 7pm Fri, 7am–6pm Sat 8
www.oldjaffa.co.il • Take surfing lessons at 7
Ilana Goor Museum: www. Galim Surf School (www. 3 KAUFMAN
ilanagoormuseum.org galimsurf.com). EILAT
Tel Aviv Port: entrances • City-run Tel-o-Fun rents YEFET
from HaTa’arucha St and bikes (www.tel-o-fun.co.il). JAFFA
Tel Aviv Port
Jaffa Artists’ Quarter
5 7
Destroyed by Napoleon in 1799 and rebuilt in
Founded in
1936, Tel Aviv’s old the 1800s, Jaffa’s Old City now houses the Ilana
port and seafront Goor Museum and artists’ studios and galleries
board walk are (left), many hidden
now the city’s in the alleys between
liveliest dining the port and the
and nightlife Jaffa Slope Park.
area. Cafés line
Jaffa Slope
the cargo basin 8
and ware houses Park
hold shops and Opened in 2010, this
a food market. grassy hilltop park
with its seafront
Reading
promenade provides
6 sparkling views of Tel
Power
Station Aviv and some much
Opened in 1938, needed open space for
Bauhaus
this Modernist building Jaffa’s his torically Arab 0
is used for occasional art Ajami neighborhood. Buildings
exhibitions. It overlooks You can spot some of Tel
Tel Aviv
a lovely bike path and 9 Aviv’s famous Bauhaus
a marble column com­ Marina buildings (above) along
memorating the British Yachts dock at Israel’s HaYarkon Street, a block
assault across the oldest marina, which back from the beach.
Yarkon in World War I. is also host to various One of the finest, built
sailing competitions. in 1935, is at No. 96.

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