From ancient port to global hotspot, Tel Aviv is a city built on layers—of history, architecture, culture, and flavor. Join renowned tour guide Gila Levitan for an eye-opening four-part virtual journey that takes you far beyond the guidebooks. Each session uncovers a different dimension of Tel Aviv's evolution, blending past and present with stories, sites, and street-level discoveries you won’t find on your own.
SESSION 4: FLAVOR - MARKETS & Migrations: A TASTE OF TEL AVIV
Travel through history by way of your taste buds! From the restored Sarona Market, nestled in a 19th-century Templar colony, to the vibrant Hatikvah Market, explore how waves of immigration have flavored the city’s culinary identity, one street food bite at a time.
ABOUT OUR GUIDE
After moving to Israel in 2005, Gila Levitan pursued her career in Physiotherapy and also studied for a Masters in Public Health from Hebrew University. After working in Health Policy Research she decided to become a licensed tour guide in order to pursue her passion for exploring and travelling around Israel. Gila loves to travel all over the world and brings the knowledge andexperience of a well seasoned traveller to her explanations. Gila is very curious and likes to know all the little details and being a guide enables her to teach people about a place that she loves. Gila has a passion for languages, not only does she speak Hebrew fluently but has pickedup bits and pieces of Arabic to understand local culture better, she also has basic French. Gila loves to add touches of local culture to her tours, off the beaten track places and local delicacies -the best way to travel she believes is to taste new flavors and make new friends. Gila is proud to have been awarded the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence for the past five years in a row.
This series is made possible by a grant from the Congregation Ahabat Shalom Religious Fund and other generous donors.
