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5 places to avoid while visiting Tel Aviv with your grandparents

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October 3, 2013

Birthright leaders, beware: Group hormones are raging, and the streets of Tel Aviv are lined in as many sexual innuendos as Jerusalem's Old City is with “Jesus Was Here” placards.

Tel Aviv is where the Middle East throws back its hijabs and its tzniuts; where the Orthodox of the East “>Beyond the Limit,” by acclaimed Israeli artist Zadok Ben-David — towers over the swarms of half-naked beautiful people at Jerusalem Beach. Perhaps as a soft reminder of why we've all congregated so half-nakedly?

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