Herzliya, Israel, in English: neighbourhoods, beaches, high tech, history, and where to stay and eat
At the northern end of Herzliya the coast rises into a ridge of kurkar, the soft sandstone that lines much of Israel's shore. On top of it, right at the edge, stand the remains of a Crusader fortress with a dry moat cut into the rock. Below, the beach and the sea. Behind, the…
Herzliya is close enough to Tel Aviv that plenty of people commute between them every day, and the transport links reflect that. A train station with…
Herzliya's coast runs from the marina in the south to the cliffs below Apollonia in the north, and the city splits it into a string of separately…
Every year or so, for two days, the Israeli political and security establishment comes to a university campus in Herzliya to say what it thinks…
Herzliya sits on Israel's central coast, about 15 kilometres north of central Tel Aviv, and most people who know the name know it for one of three…
Herzliya Pituach gets the attention, but most of Herzliya's 110,000 residents live somewhere else. The city is a patchwork of neighbourhoods, each…
Drive off Highway 2 at the Kfar Shmaryahu interchange on a weekday morning and you join the queue into one of the most valuable square kilometres in…
When Israelis say "Herzliya" with a certain tone, they usually mean Herzliya Pituach. It's the slice of the city west of Highway 2, running along the…
Herzliya eats in two places. At lunchtime on weekdays, the tech workers of Herzliya Pituach fill the restaurants on Medinat HaYehudim, Shenkar and…
Three cities in the Sharon, all within half an hour of Tel Aviv, all popular with families, and all expensive. Herzliya, Ra'anana and Kfar Saba often…