The city that never sleeps — White City Bauhaus, Carmel Market, falafel, and Mediterranean beaches
Tel Aviv-Yafo is built on a Mediterranean coastline with a beach running the full length of the city and a food culture (falafel, sabich eggplant sandwiches, shawarma, hummus from Jaffa hole-in-the-wall shops, shakshouka, meorav yerushalmi mixed grill, Yemenite soup, knafeh from the Old Jaffa vendors) that has made it one of the most exciting food cities in the Middle East. The UNESCO-listed White City — 4,000 Bauhaus and International Style buildings from the 1930s and 40s — is the largest concentration of Bauhaus architecture anywhere in the world, built by German-Jewish architects who fled…
Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 as a suburb of the ancient port of Jaffa by 66 Jewish families who drew lots for land plots on sand dunes north of the city — the first Hebrew city in modern times. The British Mandate period (1920–1948) and waves of immigration from Europe (particularly from Nazi Germany in the 1930s) transformed it rapidly; the State of Israel was declared on May 14, 1948, in the Independence Hall on Rothschild Boulevard in central Tel Aviv. The ancient city of Jaffa (Yafo), now integrated as Tel Aviv-Yafo, has been continuously inhabited for over 4,000 years and is one of the o…