Urban Walking & Food Tour in Tel Aviv

Rothschild Boulevard, Hen Boulevard, Dizengoff Street, and Ben-Zion Boulevard al come together on this square, which is home to the national theatre of Israel, one of the first Hebrew language theatres.

Tel Aviv's first boulevard, the most famous street in Israel, is named after a member of one of the wealthiest families in world history. Many of the historic buildings are built in the Bauhaus or International style, forming part of the White City of Tel Aviv. We will take a few short detours from Rothschild but return on it until we reach Ahuzat Bayit, the first neighborhood of Tel Aviv.

On King Albert Square you can enjoy both the majestic Norman Hotel, one on the best boutique hotels in the world and the eclectic-style Pagoda House.

Aka The Castle and the KGB House, you will find out why.

Here we pass to show you the location of one of the stations of the new Tel Aviv light rail.

It is great, but if no one tell you, you have a good chance you passed it without noticing. Planned by the founders of Tel Aviv but build many years after they build their neighborhood.

This moment on Rothschild Boulevard commemorates the Jewish families that chipped in money to build a new modern neighborhood, which would become know as Tel Aviv

Statue of Meir Dizengoff, Tel Aviv's first mayor, on his horse in front of his house. After an absence of 2000 year, it was in this house that David Ben Gurion declared a new Jewish state in 1948.

The first skyscraper in the Middle East, build on the location of the first Hebrew high school, HaGymnasia.

The house of Akiva Weiss, the initiator to build Tel Aviv and the statue of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish Captain in the French Army. "L'Affaire", as it is known in French, has come to symbolize modern injustice and is one of the most notable examples of a complex miscarriage of justice and antisemitism. It had a great impact on Theodore Herzl, who is more or less responsible that you can walk around in Tel Aviv and a Jewish State..

The first, tiny, Jewish neighborhood outside the walls of Jaffa in the 19th century, followed by many other tiny ones, each for a different social and ethnic Jewish group. All together they are called Neve Tzedek now. We will pass some of the 100+ year old houses and synagogues. Nowadays, avant-garde design stores, fashion boutiques, handicraft shops and a handful of good restaurants add to the attractiveness of this low rise gentrified neighborhood

A new urban park to connect the beach with downtown Tel Aviv along the route of the old Ottoman railway. The red line of the Tel Aviv light rail wil ride under this park.

Aharon came to the Holy Land in a Mizrahi Aliya (immigration wave), about 50 years before the other Jews started giving numbers to their Ashkenazi Aliyot. He paid for the plot of land called Neve Tzedek and build the first house with a private synagogue.

This center for modern dance, home of the Batsheva Dance Company and Inbal Dance Theater, is built on the ruins of the Alliance School for Boys and the Yechiely Girls School (1908). Now beautifully restored with a picturesque piazza.

The vibrant marketplace where traders sell everything from clothing to spices and from vegetables to electronics. Nowadays also a trendy spots for bars, restaurants, coffee shops and chef-owned food stalls.

An early 19th century poor neighborhood for Jewish immigrants from Yemen. These guys started a market which would become the largest one in Tel Aviv, the Carmel Market. The tin shacks and wooden houses are gone now, but narrow streets remained, with small restaurants and ground level houses.