Cheap Holidays To Israel

Holidays in Tel Aviv: A Vibrant City On The Mediterranean Coast

Holidays in Tel Aviv offers the visitor a city experience like no other. Tel Aviv has high-rise office towers, shopping centres, beaches, restaurants and night clubs, all bursting with energy. Although Jerusalem is Israel’s political capital, the international community does not recognize this primacy and places its embassies in Tel Aviv. This city was named after something old and something new: Tel meaning an archaeological mound, while Aviv is Hebrew for spring. During the 1930s German immigrants brought culture know-how and prosperity to Tel Aviv. They introduced the Bauhaus architectural style and the city boasts more than 1500 such buildings. Because of this unique collection of the International Style (Bauhaus) buildings, Tel Aviv has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. For visitors taking holidays in Tel Aviv it is sometimes hard to pick out these Bauhaus buildings beneath the high-tech glass towers, and in many instances they are hidden behind trees.

Tel Aviv is regarded as the financial springboard to the Middle East, bringing business visitors to the city all the year round. Similarly tourists of Europe and North America have discovered that holidays in Tel Aviv are great for an interesting vacation. One area you must visit is Dizengoff, once the city’s most fashionable thoroughfare, and although less grand today, still one of the principle streets. On a sunny day one may get the impression that the entire city is on holiday, sipping coffee at the sidewalk cafés along Dizengoff. One block north is the Dizengoff center, a modern multi-level shopping center offering everything a tourist on holidays in Tel Aviv could wish for on a shopping spree.

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A street that cuts across Dizengoff is Gordon, where art works of the great masters such as Picasso and Chagall are displayed beside paintings of leading Israeli artists. Although these works are displayed in galleries it is a Tel Aviv custom to wander in and out of these stores along Gordon and nearby streets as if you were in a museum. The art lover on holidays in Tel Aviv should also pay a visit to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art which consists of four central galleries, an auditorium, a sculpture garden etc. Exhibitions range from 17th century Dutch and Flemish masters, 18th century Italian paintings, Impressionists, post-Impressionists, 20th century art from Europe and the United States, as well as modern Israeli paintings. The Tel Aviv Center for Performing Arts is an attractive new building, inaugurated in the 1990s, and houses the New Israel Opera, a theatre and auditorium.

Tel Aviv residents are proud of their city which was named “The City That Never Stops” by an advertising company during the late 1980s. The streets are crowded with pedestrians of all ages and cars well into the early hours of the morning, especially at the weekends. Visitors on holidays in Tel Aviv should remember that weekend days off are Friday and Saturday and that the essence of Tel Aviv is outdoors where you can always find a table to sit and relax, and watch the world go by.