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Article: See Tel Aviv's sights in the daylight.
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- The Boston Herald
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- September 14, 1997
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OK, you can't stay up until 5 a.m. every night. And at some point you're going to want to see the sights of Tel Aviv, Israel's major metropolis and busiest business center.
Tel Aviv is a "new Jewish city" - a phrase that seems almost an oxymoron. As the locals tell it, the city developed by accident. In 1909, 60 Jewish families set up homes on sand dunes just north of Jaffa. Meir Dizengoff, one of those founders and a future mayor said: "We hope this shall become a city of 25,000 people." Everyone cheered, but whispered among themselves that Dizengoff must be mad. Today, Tel Aviv is home to 350,000, and more than a million workers commute here daily.
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