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Tel Aviv tour teaches English speakers to read the Hebrew graffiti on the wall

VIDEO: Guy Sharett's outdoor ulpan takes foreigners to hidden alleys and gritty side streets for a look at contemporary Israeli culture - in Hebrew.

By Danna Harman | May 15, 2012 | 12:59 AM

Greening Tel Aviv - Nir Keidar - May 15, 2012

Greening Tel Aviv with vertical gardening

Tel Aviv's 'Houses From Within' exhibit includes home with unique homes where residents are trying to implement urban agriculture techniques that protect the environment in the city.

By Zafrir Rinat | May 15, 2012 | 12:59 AM | 3

Architectural tour of Tel Aviv University opens annual ‘Houses From Within’ events

University campus will act as an open architecture museum, with its modern buildings, green lawns, dozens of sculptures spread around the campus and a variety of cultural offerings.

By City Mouse Online | May 13, 2012 | 10:02 AM

Tel Aviv Art Museum to feature retrospective of influential architect Alfred Mansfeld

Mansfeld was one of the leading architects in Israel and is famous for designing the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

By Noam Dvir | May 1, 2012 | 01:27 AM

Roll of the dice – what's between chess and backgammon?

Chess and backgammon grew up in the same neighborhood and are both thousands of years old. So why is one called the game of kings and the other the game of the unemployed?

By Vered Lee | Apr 25, 2012 | 06:04 PM | 2

New Tel Aviv tour brings us a bissel taste of old Yiddish times

Tel Aviv may be known as the first Hebrew city, whose residents often struggled with the language of Eastern European Jews, but from its early days, a glorious Yiddish culture thrived there.

By Ofer Aderet | Apr 24, 2012 | 01:31 AM | 3

Yitzhak Elron’s wife, Sara, dancing with the Argentine chief of staff.

An inside look at Israel's operation to capture Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann

An exhibition about the covert Israeli operation to capture Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1960 keeps on revealing new secrets.

By Ofer Aderet | Apr 15, 2012 | 01:04 AM | 4

Itamar Dauba's 'Sugar Daddy,' one of the art works featured.

The good, the bad, and the not-so-ugly of Israeli designers

A new exhibit in Holon is putting the spotlight on Israeli designers who've been in their field for a decade.

By Yuval Saar | Apr 5, 2012 | 05:59 AM

A photo in the book by Price and Karmi-Melamede.

Haifa's Glass House - transparent, but still an Israeli mystery

Glass bricks are atypical for this country because of their high cost and unsuitability to the climate. Still, architect Theodor Menkes went ahead in the 1930s and put up Israel's Glass House.

By Noam Dvir | Apr 5, 2012 | 04:19 AM

Artist Lenny Dinar Dothan’s Renaissance-inspired painting of herself and her infant son.

Italy's Florentine style comes to life in a south Tel Aviv art studio

The tiny exhibition in the Florentin neighborhood is Lenny Dinar Dothan's first solo one, but the list of her activities to date is extraordinarily long and complex.

By Daniel Rauchwerger | Apr 4, 2012 | 04:20 AM | 5

Tel Aviv exhibition connects Jewish history with modern audiences

Toby Cohen, who started his career as a paparazzi photographer in London, but today his photos depicting Abraham and Sarah shows how much he loves his art and the people within it.

By Josh Mintz / Jewish World blogger | Apr 3, 2012 | 09:25 PM

There's art outside of Tel Aviv, you just have to look

While Tel Aviv's scene may steal most of the spotlight, art centers and museums throughout Israel offer exciting, cutting-edge artists and works.

By Neta Halperin | Apr 3, 2012 | 11:07 AM

Annual exhibit turns Tel Aviv-area sewage plant to eco art space

The Dan Region Wastewater Treatment Plant situated in central Israel is doubling as an exhibition space for the Passover holiday, advancing environmental of ecological issues through art and design.

By Adi Harari | Apr 1, 2012 | 03:36 PM

Parks & Nature

Lutras, a species of otter, feared dying out in Israel

By Eli Ashkenazi | 12:30 AM

Israel's final frontier

By Nir Hasson | 01:59 PM | 7

In hectic Tel Aviv, green still survives

By Aviva Lori | 06:41 PM

Food & Drink

A family enjoying the spread at the annual Taste of the City food festival in Tel Aviv.

Get a taste of Tel Aviv's finest cuisine

By City Mouse Online | 02:27 PM

A cup of heaven from a Jaffa hole-in-the-wall

By Vered Guttman | 10:05 PM

Delicacies of ancient Rome

By Ronit Vered | 05:12 PM | 2

Music & Theater

'Grandmother’s Asleep' ‏(2010‏), by Dina Kornveits.

Between exile and homesickness

By Galia Yahav | 05:07 AM

Interactive film screen to be featured in Jerusalem Season of Culture festival

By Daniel Rauchwerger | 02:46 AM

The crater good

By Ruth Eshel | 01:27 AM

Travel News

Recommendations for 2012 Israel Festival in Jerusalem

By City Mouse Online | 08:27 PM

Club Med surrenders Achziv Beach back to Israeli public

By Zafrir Rinat | 01:02 AM | 2

Tel Aviv museum gives expression to expressionist period

By Galia Yahav | 03:05 AM

Shopping & Shuks

Kushnir’s corner in Bayit Banamal. The comme il faut complex.

When olden is golden

By Sahar Shalev | 01:18 AM

Fashion design / Making the news... into clothes

By Shachar Atwan, Haaretz | 11:19 AM

A fashion oasis in a desertscape

By Shachar Atwan | 03:40 AM

Religion & Relics

The British High Commissioner's headquarters in Jerusalem, now the seat of the UN.

A colonial room with a view of Jerusalem

By Noam Dvir | 05:47 AM | 12

When Acre goes boutique

By Noam Dvir | 01:20 PM

Neot Kedumim: Exploring biblical Israel in the footsteps of those that walked it

By Danna Harman | 12:16 PM

Benjamin Netanyahu