The White City or „Miami of the Middle East“; find your own Tel Aviv on a brief visit.
Tel Aviv is also a city of fascinating paradoxes: a single sex religious beach lies adjacent to a gay beach; on the Jewish holiday of Passover, there is virtually no bread to be found in the city, yet many restaurants serve rather un-kosher pork and seafood dishes.
Still the best quality of Tel Aviv may be the locals. While they can come off rowdy or downright arrogant -- in Yiddish it's called "chutzpah" -- Tel Avivians are also known for their candor and openness. Over the course of a simple chat, you could be asked how much you make in a year or if you are up for a trance party over the weekend.
At night, young, hip Tel Avivians invade the area of Namal for a night of dancing at countless clubs and bars, but in the morning the Namal is quiet and the perfect place to have breakfast while gazing out over the sea.
Cool clubs like „Galina“- which is an open-air hot-spot open from breakfast till sunrise or the upscale club „Sublet“ which is located in the Gaon building.
A few kilometers after the Namal is Banana Beach, named after its hip cafe, where you can stop for some sun and refreshments. On Friday afternoons amateur drummers gather for jam sessions.