Tel Avivians are rubbing their eyes these days. Until lately so little thought of by the world that many tourists to Israel never bothered to visit it at all, their city is suddenly high on the places-to-be lists. First, last summer, National Geographic magazine rated it one of the "top 10 beach cities in the world," placing it ninth, behind Sydney and ahead of Vancouver. Then, as if that weren't improbable enough, the Lonely Planet guidebook series awarded Tel Aviv third place in its "top cities of the world" competition, between number-two Tangier and number-four Wellington.
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