Tel Aviv
How to book it Kirker offers three nights with breakfast at The Norman from £998pp, based on two sharing, including British Airways flights from Heathrow, airport assistance and return private car transfers. Tel: 020 7593 2283,
kirkerholidays.com
it’s worlds away from the religious side of
Israel; the annual Pride event is the week before ITT, and locals will tell you they go to Jerusalem to pray and Tel Aviv to play. The city is also the county’s cultural heart. The
main opera and ballet companies reside here and film festivals abound. There are even mobile book swap libraries on the beach. The Tel Aviv Museum of Art includes works by Canaletto, Picasso and Van Gogh, while in Jaffa the Ilana Goor Museum exhibits sculptures and designs by the Israeli artist – who’s been honoured with a special reception by fashion designer Donna Karan and has produced momentos for visiting presidents. Your clients can get their own Goor souvenir by buying her homeware in the museum shop.
Stay in style When it comes to equally cool places to stay, there are great suggestions, such as the relatively new Ritz-Carlton, which boasts a
rooftop pool and bar in the exclusive coastal suburb of Herzliya – and a W will debut in a heritage building in Jaffa before the year ends too. However, the tourist office’s UK and Ireland
director Naama Oryan Kaplan believes the biggest ones to watch are the small independent hotels: “There’s certainly been a revival of boutique hotels in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. These have fantastic design and some of the best locations in town.” Among them is 50-room The Norman, which opened late 2014 in a residential enclave, with a gorgeous retro facade and rooftop infinity pool. Last year’s arrivals include the similarly vintage Lily & Bloom near Rothschild Boulevard and Brown Beach House, which is unusually low-rise amid the seafront skyscrapers, while the latest boutique newcomer is funky Cucu on buzzy Dizengoff Street. Also worth looking out for is Atlas, which has a chain of boutique hotels, including surf-themed
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Yam and another in a converted cinema, Hotel Cinema, with complimentary daily happy hours and bike hire. Its flagship is 44-room Market House, which debuted in 2014 in an 180-year old Jaffa building once used by the Israeli equivalent of M16, with remains of a sixth-century chapel visible through a glass floor. “We sit beside antiques and new designer shops, so the design of the hotel combines the spirit of the market,” explains the hotel’s Lior Lipman. “Each room is made by local artists who purchased junk in the market and made something with it.”
Pictured 1. Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center 2. Flea market in Jaffa 3. Tel Aviv Museum of Art 4. Dining at Lily & Bloom 5. Tel Aviv from above 6. Brown Beach House bar, terrace 7. The Ritz-Carlton Herzliya 8. Hotel Cinema
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