Tel Aviv

To travel to Tel Aviv on business without making a diversion via Jerusalem would almost be heresy. In the strictest sense of the word. Jerusalem, the cradle of the three monotheistic religions, is an eminently sacred site for Jews, Christians and Muslims alike. Behind the ramparts celebrated by Chateaubriand in...

It's hard to name my favourite restaurants in Tel Aviv, as there are so many... But I'd have to say I have a soft spot for Oasis, Rima Olivera's restaurant. This energetic woman, originally from California, moved to Israel about fifteen years ago. She's a real icon for me. All her cooking is based...

Small ochre stone houses line up wisely in a garden shaded by date palms, and all around, tall skyscrapers form a modern belt around this urban oasis: this is the district of Sarona, where a colony of German Protestants, the Société des...

Making something new out of something old, the hotel industry in Tel Aviv is very good at it, but it's fairly recent. So in 2014, after two years of renovations, a nearly 200-year-old building in the heart of the Jaffa market opened its doors as the Market House Hotel. The only hotel for the moment in...

"Tel Aviv is a great place to do business at the moment," says Daniel Rouach, President of the France-Israel Chamber of Commerce. Why such a dynamic? Because in just a few years the country has become a veritable cluster of innovative start-ups. Ten years ago, young entrepreneurs began to set up in...

Adi Assif-Gutman [caption id="attachment_59065" align="aligncenter" width="700"] © Ludovic MAISANT[/caption] 36, architect - www.ygaa.net In summer, we sometimes come to the office in flip-flops. No one's surprised. After studying architecture at the Bezalel School of Fine Arts, I continued my studies at Harvard. When I returned from the United States in 2010, I joined the firm...

Transavia's schedule to Tel Aviv will gain in consistency next spring, benefiting business travellers in particular. From 30 March, the low-cost carrier belonging to the Air France KLM group will be adding two new frequencies from Paris-Orly, operating on Mondays and Sundays. Another new service has been announced from...

A few days after making official the use of its new Paris slots to launch a service between Orly and Hamburg, easyJet has announced that it has been awarded traffic rights by the French Civil Aviation Authority (Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile) to serve Tel Aviv from Paris-Charles de Gaulle. This decision follows a one-month consultation period, and the award of traffic...

Tel Aviv has made innovation its priority. Business districts like Herzliya flourish all around Israel's economic capital, providing high-tech testing grounds for a host of ingenious start-ups. So where are we? Just ten kilometres north of Tel Aviv, between the waters of the Mediterranean and the asphalt of...

Already present in a number of strategic business travel markets via its 44 establishments, the W brand is preparing to enter a new strategic destination: Israel. The Starwood group's 'trendy' brand will be opening its first Israeli address in a destination suited to the W spirit, in Tel Aviv - Jaffa: "Tel Aviv is one of the...

"A mini-Los Angeles": that's how The Economist magazine sums up the "White City", even if the 3.1 million inhabitants of the Tel Aviv conurbation (the Gush Dan) will struggle to compete with the 18 million of its Californian "big sister". However, there is no shortage of points of comparison between the two cities, both of which are over-active metropolises bathed in...

How is the Tel Aviv hotel sector faring? Eli Ziv - We already have 60 hotels in the Tel Aviv region, with 8,000 rooms, including 6,000 in the city, in all categories. Over the next three years, we plan to open 2,200 new rooms, including 1,000 in budget hotels, because the city lacks...