Although not exactly a hidden destination, Tel Aviv is the sort of place that somehow manages to be totally unlike what people expect, regardless of what people’s expectations actually are. Without getting into cliches that paint the city in some sort of magical, mysterious light, let’s just say that as far as us locals are concerned, tourists seem to have some pretty strange views about what Tel Aviv is like. Maybe it’s the whole East-meets-West, old-meets-modern thing that throws people off and makes this place so confusing to some. Maybe it’s because people expect Tel Aviv to be like Jerusalem or their preconception of Israel — full of wailing walls, solemn prayers and everything “Jewish”. Who knows? \u00a0We shouldn’t really be surprised at people misconceptions, but talking to visitors about their experience of Tel Aviv sometimes feels like this:<\/p>\n