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Article: Swept away by Tel Aviv // Brash city has energy to spare
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 20, 1998
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TEL AVIV, Israel Like New York and Tokyo, Tel Aviv is a great
metropolis that never sleeps. Long into the city's humid summer
evenings, cars race down its main streets which run parallel to the
Mediterranean shoreline. Restless souls stroll to the hum of the
traffic. And all-night snack stands do a brisk business in
pistachios, almonds, pumpkin seeds, ice cream, bottled water and
sticky rolls of dried, pressed apricot.
Like other insomniac urban centers, Tel Aviv can be a hard city
to love. Despite long, sometimes sweltering days of sunshine, and a
beachside locale dotted with palm trees, this is no mellow,
semi-tropical milieu, but a high-energy, hard-driving, hard-talking
place. And ...