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A general view of Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2021.
A general view of Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2021. Credit: Hadas Parush

Ever since the founding of the state, new cities in Israel have been conceived primarily as ‘housing solutions.’ When will planners begin to give thought to endowing towns with a sense of ‘urbanism’?

הדר חורש תמונות כתבים דה מרקר דהמרקר The Marker תמונת כתב

What is the revised Israeli dream? A villa in the countryside or a penthouse at the top of an urban residential tower? And if everyone loves Tel Aviv so much, where were they in the 1970s when a condo on Sheinkin Street cost less than an apartment in a peripheral neighborhood in northern Jerusalem?

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