The alternative Tel Aviv Guide
DIY Tel Aviv is an alternative ebook guide to Tel Aviv – the only one in the English language! It has around 200 pages of information about unusual, underground, hidden or just plain cool places in Tel Aviv, as well as useful and brutally honest tourist information.
If you’re coming to Tel Aviv for whatever reason – visiting, studying or working, this guide is for you.
Here’s a chapter list so you can see what’s inside.
The most up to date tourist guide to Tel Aviv (probably)
DIY Tel Aviv updates at the beginning of each month, so all the places listed are still cool and, most importantly, still there by the time you visit.
The cheap Tel Aviv tourist guide
Payment for the guide is by donation, so you can choose how much you want to pay. This makes it affordable even if you’ve already bought another guidebook. Obviously, writing and maintaining a 200 page guide on a monthly basis takes a lot of work, so the suggested donation is £5. You can, however, choose to pay less than that.
What people are saying about DIY Tel Aviv
‘Thank you for “alternatively” guiding me through Tel Aviv. Your blog and guide are great providing a deep variation of places to check out in this fast paced city. Good job man!’
-Michael, Madrid
“Your guide is awesome, and thank you so much for all the cool stuff you post.” — Claudio O
“This is very cool guide.” – Diogo A
“…It’s the best guide I have had.” — Cristina R
“Really enjoyed reading and exploring Tel Aviv and Jaffa with DIY Tel Aviv” — Mary Horesh, London
“Our trip was great and your guide helped us a
lot!” — Adrien, Paris
“Man Your city guide is AWESOME!” — David, Brussels
“u made my stay in tel aviv! good to have somebody tellin you where all the great street art is…and the cafes.” – Johannes, Berlin
DIY Tel Aviv party and underground event listings blog
This blog was initially designed to promote the main DIY Tel Aviv Guide, but is now the place where I write about all the interesting events that land in my inbox and Facebook account. Occasionally I rant or rave about living in Tel Aviv or write about other random things. Please don’t expect the blog to give you all the info that’s in the guide for free. It took me 6 months to write the first edition of the guide and updating it is practically a full time job. You can download the guide for as little as £1, which I think is a price anyone traveling to Tel Aviv should be able to handle.
If you like the totally awesome icons on this blog and would like to give the talented artist who drew them loads of highly paid work, please do contact me 
Please also contact me if you have any requests for things to include in the guide / blog.
On the other hand, if you disagree with my politics, don’t bother contacting me, unless you enjoy being ignored. I am not interested in entering into political discussions. My writing reflects my opinion, which I am quite comfortable with. You are welcome to ignore the political parts of my blog and the guide and enjoy the rest of it or, if you can’t, please feel free to stick to other guides.
About the author (me!)
I was born and raised in Israel but have spent much of my adult life in London, UK. Nowadays I split my time between Tel Aviv and London. I’m a published author with one previous book (published in the UK) and plenty of magazine articles (UK, Israel, USA) I was the London correspondent for Israel’s underground music magazine, Newzeek and am currently freelancing for Time Out Israel in the nightlife section, among other things. I have been involved in the underground party scene in both the UK and Israel for quite some time and am vaguely active on the political scene in both as well. The DIY Tel Aviv guide is my own personal project, not affiliated with any other publications, websites or companies.
I’ve read a lot of travel guides in my time, so I know what I look for in one. I’ve tailored mine to match that. If we share at least some of the ideas of what makes a good travel guide, then we’ll get along just fine.
