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Article: Tel Aviv at 100
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- April 2, 2009
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Jerusalem Post
04-02-2009
Headline: Tel Aviv at 100
Edition; Daily
Section: Opinion
Page: 13
Thursday, April 2, 2009 -- No two cities complement each other better than Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Yet the denizens of Israel's political and spiritual capital often view their compatriots 60 kilometers down the road as if they were from another planet. Which is fine with Tel Avivians, who think of their coastal city, the country's commercial and cultural capital, as the real Israel.
Jerusalemites, whose city lies smack between Judea and Samaria, are sometimes exasperated when smug Tel Avivians act as if the Green Line were 1,800 kilometers away, instead of just 18.
Yet we would invite those quick to ...