Today is my fourth day in Tel Aviv and i will travel to Jerusalem tomorrow to spend Rosh haShanah there and plan to stay until Yom Kippur.
Tel Aviv is a wonderful and modern city. Even today on Shabbat the AM-PM 24 hours markets are open as well as several coffeehouses. Normal shops are closed of course.
Yesterday i walked to Jaffa, and had a look at the old town. There are for sure beautiful sights and so, but if you walk a little awaz from the beaten track, it becomes quite dirty and unfriendly unless you make a genuine arab appearance which i do not ...
Staying in Tel Aviv at momoshostel.com is cool though more expensive than the Lonely Planet said , i actually pay 68 NIS a night which is a little more than 13 EUR at current exchange rates ...
Howsoever, the staff is really friendly, the location is central as well as close to the beautiful beach and i generally feel well there.
I opened an account on youtube and hope to upload some Clips i shot with the mobile once i bring my laptop online again. You should be able to find it at http://www.youtube.com/lg5769 , but it will take some days until i can put some content there.