Tel Aviv-Jaffa offers urban tours during January
See the city from the inside and take historical, culinary and cultural looks at its neighborhoods
Jessica Steinberg, The Times of Israel's culture and lifestyles editor, covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center
The Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality is offering Hebrew-speaking tours of the city in January that show different sides of local urban life, including the historical, cultural and culinary flavors of its various neighborhoods.
One upcoming tour includes a guided look at Tel Aviv’s tiniest road, Washington Street, with a look at its history, local businesses, stories and flavors.
January 16, 7 p.m., NIS 110 per person.
Another tour takes visitors to Bialik House, named for Hebrew national poet Hayyim Nahman Bialik, and now used as a museum. It’s the focal point of the square and surrounding neighborhood, and the tour will include a look at the museum and the nearby streets.
January 18, NIS 80 per person.
A Jaffa tour includes the neighborhood around the Gesher Theater, founded by Russian immigrants to Israel and now featuring plays in Russian and Hebrew. The tour will take visitors around the Gesher Theater environs and then they will gather for a production of “Richard the Third.”
January 23, NIS 150 per person.
Other tours include a culinary look at Neve Shaanan, home to many refugees and immigrants who have brought their culinary flavors to the neighborhood, on January 24 at 11 a.m., and a food tour of the Levinsky spice market on January 17 at 11 a.m.
One of the final tours is on January 25, 11 a.m. at Tel Aviv’s central bus station, taking visitors into the bowels of the building for a look at its graffiti, bat caves, ongoing construction and the future of the space.