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Tel Aviv ranked second sexiest burg

Gan Hahashmal beats out the rest of the world, with the exception of Rio's Ipanema

Illustrative photo of two women at the beach in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Tel Aviv is a beautiful place — beaches, architecture… and people, of course. Its bars and coast are full of toned, stylish residents dancing, flirting, and tanning.

And the world is taking notice.

The White City’s Gan Hahashmal scored second place on Thrillist’s “Top ten sexiest neighborhoods on Earth,” losing out to Rio De Janiero’s Ipanema neighborhood.

“Israel’s renowned for its gorgeous citizenry, having produced the wonders that are Bar Refaeli and Gal Gadot, but Tel Aviv in particular serves as a crossroads of international and domestic hotties,” writes Thrillist.

“Add in the fact that the city’s population is overwhelmingly single, and you’ll start to see how a hip neighborhood like Gan Hahashmal — with its public garden, late-Ottoman-era houses, and cutting-edge boutiques — can be a hotbed of sexy people doing sexy things.”

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