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SIGHTS AT A GLANCE
Beachfront Promenade
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Bialik Street
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Dizengoff Street
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Eretz Israel Museum
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Museum of the Jewish Diaspora
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Old Port
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Rabin Square
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Rothschild Avenue
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Road Map
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Arlosoroff Station,
Arlosoroff Rd, (03) 577 4000.
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New Central Bus Station, Levinsky
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(03) 694 8888 (long-distance
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7 Mendale Street,
(03) 570 7600.
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deck, which in parts gently
undulates like sand dunes.
This is a favourite area for
fishermen and for wedding
couples, who have their
photographs taken with
the Mediterranean Sea as
a backdrop.
Further south, in the
vicinity of
Independence
Park
(Gan Ha-Atzmaut),
there's a small children's
playground. Beside this, a
section of beach is screened
off for the use of Orthodox
Jews (men and women on
different days).
The city centre stretch of
beach is dominated by the
huge, pink
Opera Towers
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with shops and restaurants at
street level, and a distinctive
stepped profile. The beach
here is crowded all summer
with sun-seekers and, after
dark, with open-air concert-
and disco-goers. Strong sea
currents mean that you should
swim only where you see
white flags. Red flags mean
that it is dangerous; black
flags that it is forbidden.
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around 30 years until the site
was revitalised in the 1990s.
It is now a lively area of bars,
cafés, restaurants, nightclubs
and shops. There is even an
antiques market on Saturdays.
The beachfront parade in central Tel Aviv, part of a well-maintained
promenade that stretches the length of the city
