Dave Levinsky, a member of Brown Hotels

This short loop trail runs through a portion of Levinsky Market and busy Yehuda HaLevi street (שוק לוינסקי ויהודה הלוי מעגלי). In the 1930s, a group of Jews from Thessaloniki, Greece, settled in Tel Aviv. Some of the immigrants who were manual workers chose to live in the south of the city and established the neighborhood now known as the Florentine neighborhood. At the same time, the immigrants opened stores where they sold the spices and special dishes they brought from the Balkans and...

Begin this route on busy Rothschild Boulevard and proceed into Neve Tzedek (נווה צדק ובית דיזינגוף מעגלי) passing through some of Tel Aviv's oldest streets. Neve Tzedek was the first Jewish neighborhood built (established in 1887) outside Jaffa. For years, the neighborhood prospered as Tel Aviv grew around it. Then came years of neglect, followed by renewal in the 1980s, turning Neve Tzedek into one of the most fashionable and expensive areas of Tel Aviv, due to its calm village like...

This route runs along the edge of Rothchild Boulevard and Neve Tzedek (כיכר קצה השדרה מעגלי). Neve Tzedek was the first Jewish neighborhood built (established in 1887) outside Jaffa. For years, the neighborhood prospered as Tel Aviv grew around it. Then came years of neglect, followed by renewal in the 1980s, turning Neve Tzedek into one of the most fashionable and expensive areas of Tel Aviv, due to its calm village like atmosphere and beautiful architecture.

This enjoyable city walk runs around Neve Tzedek, Florentine and the popular Rothschild Boulevard (נווה צדק, פלורנטין ושדרת רוטשילד). Neve Tzedek became a neighborhood a full twenty-two years before the establishment of Tel Aviv (then known as Ahuzat Bait). After watching Jewish neighborhoods begin developing outside of walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, the developers Shimon Rokach and Aharon Shlosh wanted to bring about a similar process in Jaffa, thus creating the Neve Tzedek...

Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 as a neighbourhood of Jaffa, and its first name was Ahuzat Bayit (טיול מסביב לאחוזת בית). The founding families aspired to improve the living conditions in the vicinity of nearby Jaffa but also sought a Jewish national life in their own neighbourhood. After about a year following its establishment, the new name of the neighbourhood - Tel Aviv - was chosen according to the name chosen for the Hebrew translation of the book ""The Old New Land"" by Theodor Herzl, the...