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Article: The Insider's Tel Aviv
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 21, 1988
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Unlike Jerusalem, with its Biblical past, Messianic future and
insoluble present, Tel Aviv exists in a subjective here and now,
either loved or hated by all who pass through it.
It's easy for a tourist, pointed only in the direction of Ya'acov
Agam's Whirling Sculpture at Dizengoff Circle, to think of Tel Aviv
as a rather dirty, ugly city where restaurants serve fast food to
aggressive teen-agers and everything is overpriced.
And a visitor using time in Tel Aviv for the few existing
standard tourist sites-Ben Gurion's home, with its massive private
library; the Diaspora Museum at Tel Aviv University in Ramat Aviv,
with its computerland data base of every Jewish community, past and ...