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Tel Aviv, a beautiful city with proportionate blend of modernity and antiquity, is considered to be the business and cultural hub if Israel. Situated by the seashore of the Mediterranean sea, Tel Aviv offers golden sandy beaches, vibrant nightlife, excellent shopping facilities and several unusual museum to the tourists frequenting Israel’s popular destinations. The means for the foreign tourists to get to Tel Aviv through the Ben Gurion international airport, often referred to as Tel Aviv Airport, because of its proximity to Tel Aviv. The city's domestic transportation is managed by Israel Railway services and Tel Aviv Central bus services. The city comprises of several quarters namely Little Tel Aviv, Florentin Quarter and Yemenite Quarter with a unique attractiveness about each of them. Little Tel Aviv boasts of the remnants of some finest examples of Bauhaus architecture, Florentin Quarter offers the best cuisines of the country and Yemenite Quarter is adorned with an oriental ambiance quite at odds with the rest of the city yet like a medieval ornament to the modern attire of it. The major attractions of the city are its large number of museums encompassing vast array of subjects, from the ancient Jewish history to the first steps of the modern state. Eretz Israel Museum comprises of several pavilions, each of which can be regarded as a separate museums relating the history of glass making, currencies of Israel or potteries of ancient and modern times. Tel Aviv museum showcases a vast collection of modern art and artifices. Bet Hatefutsot or the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora records diverse topics related to the history of the Jewish people, their ethnicity and cultural identity, their music and their religious inclination. The structure of the Independence Hal is the one very characteristic of Tel Aviv. Once the house of the first Major of the city, it has been converted into an exquisite storehouse of remnants of the patriotic history of Zionism. Among other displays, there are some breathtaking historic pictures which almost brings alive the rich history of the State of Israel. Tel Aviv the city of diversity has everything in store for everyone. If you are a shopaholic more than a history-enthusiast, you can pick up almost anything from ethnic wears and accessories to electronic goods in several shopping malls like Opera Tower Shopping Mall, Azriely Shopping Mall, Ramat Aviv Mall and Gan H'air shopping mall.
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