Orientation

Located in the center of Israel’s Mediterranean coastline, Tel Aviv is 63km (bus ride 50min.) west of Jerusalem, and 95km (bus ride lHhr.) south of Haifa.

The two main points of entry into Tel Aviv are Ben-Gurion Airport (at Lod) and its two bus terminals. Although there is frequent bus service from the airport, the raging hostel-war in Tel Aviv has led several establishments to send vans to pick up potential clients.

As a prominent early Tel Aviv architect, Ariyeh Sharon, put it, the city “just growed.” This is not entirely true: much of the haphazard street layout was actually carefully planned, following the 19th-century English “garden suburb” scheme. Far from Hampstead in appearance, Tel Aviv may be as hard to navigate as the City of London. The best solution is a bus map (NIS2.50) available at the Dan Bus Company information at the central bus station. House numbers generally increase from the sea eastward and from the more modest southern part of the city up to the wealthier north. The street signs are also in English and announce the range of building numbers for that block.