ItalophileNJ
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Sounds like a nice day!
I know you are not museum people, but one of the attractions of Tel Aviv are some of the museums of the modern history of Israel. Up at the northern end is the Palmach Museum, and the Rabin Center. I think these are under the auspices of the various organizations, but I did enjoy the Palmach Museum (maybe partly because I was with my cousin whose father was in the Palmach). There's also the Hagganah Museum, Independence Hall (both down at the south end of Rothschild Boulevard). There's also a very small museum in Neve Tzedek that was the home of Dvora Baron, one of the first people, women to write in modern Hebrew. The Museum of the Diaspora is up in Ramat Gan, at Tel Aviv University, but I've never found it particularly interesting compared with others of that type. People recommend the Eretz Israel Museum, but when I was in Tel Aviv it was just too too hot for me to visit. (Shoshi on TA is a wonderful resource for Tel Aviv.)
Funny, or maybe not, but Israelis rarely move between Jerusalem and Israel. My Ra'anana cousins have three married children and all have always lived in Ramat haSharon, Ramat Aviv, wherever (I don't know one suburb from the other). And the kids of my Jerusalem cousins (who can't afford to live in Jerusalem) live in the Modi'in area. It's like two different worlds, apparently. My Ra'anana cousins' son, who is about 45, married a girl from Haifa, and that was quite an issue for a while as to who would commute to where. They lived in Netanya (in between) for a year or two then I think she changed jobs and now they live in Ra'anana (which is a very expensive "Anglo" city), with their two kids.
My spoken modern Hebrew is not even that good but I swear I can tell the difference between Yerushelamim and Tel Avivim by the way they speak. ;-)
Anyway --- yes, love to hear you say that Jerusalem is your city, because I feel that way too. I've been to Israel maybe ten visits, lasting from about two weeks to six weeks, but especially since I started staying in that little apartment I just feel that way about Jerusalem.
Wishing you more good weather!
I know you are not museum people, but one of the attractions of Tel Aviv are some of the museums of the modern history of Israel. Up at the northern end is the Palmach Museum, and the Rabin Center. I think these are under the auspices of the various organizations, but I did enjoy the Palmach Museum (maybe partly because I was with my cousin whose father was in the Palmach). There's also the Hagganah Museum, Independence Hall (both down at the south end of Rothschild Boulevard). There's also a very small museum in Neve Tzedek that was the home of Dvora Baron, one of the first people, women to write in modern Hebrew. The Museum of the Diaspora is up in Ramat Gan, at Tel Aviv University, but I've never found it particularly interesting compared with others of that type. People recommend the Eretz Israel Museum, but when I was in Tel Aviv it was just too too hot for me to visit. (Shoshi on TA is a wonderful resource for Tel Aviv.)
Funny, or maybe not, but Israelis rarely move between Jerusalem and Israel. My Ra'anana cousins have three married children and all have always lived in Ramat haSharon, Ramat Aviv, wherever (I don't know one suburb from the other). And the kids of my Jerusalem cousins (who can't afford to live in Jerusalem) live in the Modi'in area. It's like two different worlds, apparently. My Ra'anana cousins' son, who is about 45, married a girl from Haifa, and that was quite an issue for a while as to who would commute to where. They lived in Netanya (in between) for a year or two then I think she changed jobs and now they live in Ra'anana (which is a very expensive "Anglo" city), with their two kids.
My spoken modern Hebrew is not even that good but I swear I can tell the difference between Yerushelamim and Tel Avivim by the way they speak. ;-)
Anyway --- yes, love to hear you say that Jerusalem is your city, because I feel that way too. I've been to Israel maybe ten visits, lasting from about two weeks to six weeks, but especially since I started staying in that little apartment I just feel that way about Jerusalem.
Wishing you more good weather!
