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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

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Tel Aviv, Israel

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

August 15, 2013

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