Urban Walking & Food Tour in Tel Aviv

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About this activity

Stroll the famous Rothschild Boulevard from Habima to Ahuzat Bayit, the neighborhood that was renamed Tel Aviv in 1910. While walking you learn about the problems of the founding families, their success in building a modern Hebrew city and enjoy the beautifully restored Bauhaus architecture.

Next we will visit gentrified Neve Tzedek. From a slum that was about to be erased, it became home to over a dozen billionaires. This charming, chic, neighborhood from the 19th century is now filled with boutiques, cafe’s, restaurants and elegant fashion and jewelry stores.

For the tasting part (not on Friday and Saturday) we continue to another old neighborhood, built in 1904 for poor immigrants from Yemen. Their market grew into the largest one of Tel Aviv. This Carmel Market also survived the city's obliteration plans and is thriving now. In addition to the fruits and vegetables stalls and little Yemenite restaurants it now has many bars, eateries and chef-owned food spots.

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At a glance

Duration: 5 hours
Confirmation: Instant confirmation
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Your group only
People per booking: 1–6
Guide: English
Operated by: Amazing Jerusalem Tours

What is included

Included

Included: All Fees and Taxes

Not included

Not included: Lunch: Food and drinks will be about $40 pp

Itinerary

Habimah Square

10 min

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.
Rothschild Boulevard

30 min

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.
Stop 3

5 min

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.
Stop 4

5 min

Aka The Castle and the KGB House, you will find out why.
Stop 5

5 min

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

5 min

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.
Founders Monument and Fountain

5 min

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
Meir Dizengoff Statue

5 min

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.
Shalom Meir Tower

15 min

The first skyscraper in the Middle East, build on the location of the first Hebrew high school, HaGymnasia.
Stop 10

5 min

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..
Neve Tzedek

20 min

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
Stop 12

5 min

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.
Stop 13

5 min

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.
Suzanne Dellal Centre

5 min

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.
Carmel Market (Shuk Ha'Carmel)

1 h 45 min

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.
Kerem HaTeimanim

10 min

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.