Viva Tel Aviv!

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Conde Nast Traveler this month salutes Tel Aviv on its centennial with an article that, quite simply, captures the city as it really is. There’s really no way to give you a good synopsis of the article; you’ll just have to read it yourself. Then again, we can give you a short excerpt that highlights just what the city is all about:

I have been visiting Tel Aviv for thirty years, since I was a teenager, and something always draws me back. Part of it is the sheer sense of wonder that this city founded on the sands in 1909, by meshuga (crazy) Zionist pioneers, not only still exists a hundred years later but crackles with energy twenty-four hours a day. In a century it’s grown from nothing to a sophisticated metropolis, home to about 390,000 people. It has an internationally renowned university, a stock exchange, a vibrant media and music scene, numerous museums and art galleries, electric nightlife, and world-class restaurants. Its inhabitants are engagingly friendly and often extremely beautiful, and love to party. Phones don’t start ringing for the night’s action until ten at the earliest, and it lasts until dawn.

We’ll grant that the city may be hard to appreciate at first, but once you get there, we know you won’t want to leave. So, nu, when are you coming?

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