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The White City
SOUTH TEL AVIV
21 Bialik St.
}03 620 4664; www.white-city.co.il
If you have a thing for Modernist architecture, South Tel Aviv will deliver. Earmarked as a UNESCO World Heritage Site a…
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Beit haTfutzot (Diaspora Museum)
NORTH TEL AVIV
Klausner St.
}03 6745 7808; www.bh.org.il
In the middle of the university campus, this brilliantly curated museum narrates the history of the Jewish people from t…
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
CITY CENTER
27 King Saul Blvd.
}03 607 7020; tamuseum.com
A colossal Lichtenstein adorns the main atrium of Tel Aviv’s premier art museum, where the considerable permanent collec…
Helena Rubinstein Pavilion of Contemporary Art
CITY CENTER
6 Tarsat Blvd.
}03 528 7196; tamuseum.com
An extension of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Pavilion showcases work by up-and-coming Israeli artists. The space hold…
Dizengoff Square
CITY CENTER
Surrounded by some of the best Bauhaus in town, Dizengoff Sq. is the heart of Tel Aviv’s city center. The Fire and Water…
Rothschild Blvd., Allenby St., and Sheinkin St.
SOUTH TEL AVIV
Together, these three streets comprise what is possibly the busiest, most central part of Tel Aviv. Beyond the Bau, this…
Independence House and Founders’ Monument
SOUTH TEL AVIV
16 Rothschild Blvd.
}03 510 6426
Here David Ben-Gurion, among others, signed Israel’s Declaration of Independence and so founded the modern state that yo…
Haganah Museum
SOUTH TEL AVIV
23 Rothschild Blvd.
}03 560 8624
To say that an understanding of Israel’s military is essential to an understanding of its history is an understatement. …
Beit Ha’ir
SOUTH TEL AVIV
27 Bialik St.
}03 724 0311; www.beithair.org
Crowning the Bialik complex at its center, this magnificent colonial-style building was the first city hall of Tel Aviv.…
Beit Bialik
SOUTH TEL AVIV
22 Bialik St.
}03 452 5430
This is the former home of Chaim Bialik, Israel’s national poet who used his verse to articulate much of the collective …
Beit Rubin
SOUTH TEL AVIV
14 Bialik St.
}03 525 5961; www.rubinmuseum.org.il
Just down the street from the house of Israel’s most prominent poet is that of its most celebrated painter. (Maybe Tel A…
Yemenite Quarter
SOUTH TEL AVIV
Drop all expectations. The only way to sum up the Yemenite Quarter is to declare it bipolar, as bonkers on one side as i…
Neve Tsedek
SOUTH TEL AVIV
Neve Tsedek might be the oldest Jewish neighborhood in the city, but the money here is definitely new. Its central thoro…
The Florentine
SOUTH TEL AVIV
Take the money out of Neve Tsedek and you’ll have something along the lines of the Florentine, which lies just to the so…
IDF Museum
SOUTH TEL AVIV
HaMered St.
}03 517 2913
Like guns? You’ll love the IDF. This museum packs enough heat to start its own small war on the spot. Located just below…
Etzel Museum
SOUTH TEL AVIV
Charles Clore Garden
}03 517 7180
The Etzel (also called Irgun) was a controversial Jewish paramilitary force that broke off from the Haganah during the m…
Eretz Israel Museum
NORTH TEL AVIV
2 Levanon St.
}03 641 5820; www.eretzmuseum.org.il
The logical counterpart to the Diaspora Museum—which tracks the history of the Israeli people—the Eretz Israel Museum tr…
Tel Aviv Port
NORTH TEL AVIV
Contrary to its name, the port is less industrial thoroughfare and more done-up local hangout, with seafood bistros and …
Little Tel Aviv
NORTH TEL AVIV
Past Jabotinsky St., the fast-food chains and megamalls give way to a collective of high-end cafes and designer boutique…