Neighborhoods ·
Neve Tzedek, at walking pace
Tel Aviv's first neighborhood outside Jaffa still feels like a village — low houses, bougainvillea, and lanes made for wandering.
Founded in 1887, before Tel Aviv itself existed, Neve Tzedek was the first Jewish neighborhood built outside the walls of Jaffa. More than a century later, its scale is still human: one- and two-storey houses, narrow streets, and courtyards that open onto small galleries and cafés.
Start on Shabazi Street
Shabazi is the neighborhood's spine — design boutiques, jewellers and bakeries in restored buildings. Walk it slowly, then let the side streets pull you off course. That is the point of Neve Tzedek.
Suzanne Dellal and the old station
The Suzanne Dellal Centre, home to the Batsheva Dance Company, sits on a quiet square shaded by orange trees. A few minutes away, HaTachana — the restored Jaffa–Jerusalem railway station — is an easy place to end the walk, close to the sea.
Our tip: come early in the morning or just before sunset, when the light turns the façades golden and the streets are at their calmest.
