Just behind the flea market and Jerusalem Boulevard, in a sort of no-man’s land that links Florentin to Jaffa, lies the American Colony. This tiny, picturesque neighborhood of wooden homes with gabled roofs looks as though it was transported from a New England museum about life in the nineteenth century – which it was, in a way.
In 1866, a group of American Evangelical Christians from Jonesport, Maine docked in Jaffa, bringing with them the wood they used to build their homes in the holy land. They later sold the tiny colony to German Templars, which is why it is sometimes referred to as the German Colony. The story of the American Colony is told at the Maine Friendship House, which is open daily to visitors.

Twenty-two years before the founding of Tel Aviv, Jews left the walls of Jaffa and built in nearby Neve Tzedek.
These beautifully restored houses and streets preserve the romance of the early days of Jewish urban settlement.
A walking tour of Neve Tzedek is a must for romantics, history lovers and fans of small, winding alleys.
This is where the citys first cinema was built in 1914.
The Nahum Gutman Museum is located here in the home of the artist who immortalized the early days of Tel Aviv and Jaffa landscapes in his colorful paintings.
The neighborhood was nicknamed Little Paris because of its eye-opening architectural innovations.
Today, the most outstanding site is the Suzanne Dellal Centre, a bustling dance and theater complex.
How romantic to sit in the cafes and browse in the boutiques and designers shops, to see how a charming historic neighborhood survives surrounded by the skyscrapers of progress, enveloping a preserve of Jewish pioneering.

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art exhibits various permanent and temporal exhibitions at its home on Shaul Hamelech Boulevard and in the Helena Rubenstein Pavilion, next to the Mann Auditorium.
The permanent exhibits include some of the best works of Israeli art and sculpture from the 20’s until today, European paintings - impressionism and post-impressionism - from the 16th to the 19th centuries, as well as European and American works of the 20th century.
The museum’s graphic collection includes more than 20,000 prints and sketches.

The Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, situated on the Tel Aviv University campus, has gained honorary distinction throughout the Jewish world as the first museum of the history of the Jewish people and its contribution to human creativity and culture over a period of more than two millennia.
The Museum permanent exhibition brings the story of the Jewish People throughout the Diaspora to life through drawings, video clips, films, reconstructed models and other means.