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Sand SoccerPickup soccer games are a common sight along Tel Aviv’s miles of Mediterranean beach.

Read more in "Positively Tel Aviv" in the October 2013 issue of National Geographic Traveler (subscribe here).

Photograph by Catherine Karnow

Tel Aviv, Israel

Israel's second city is arty, techy, unabashedly secular, and defiantly optimistic

August 15, 2013
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