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Yad Harutzim nightlife center in downtown Tel Aviv

Yad Harutzim is probably not the best place to visit during the day, when it offers the not-too-sexy blend of auto repair shops, noisy multi-lane roads and old office buildings. But when the sun goes down, this area becomes one of the city’s nightlife centers. Restaurants are packed, bars are massive and the nightclubs are lined one next to the other. Some of the biggest names in the city’s nightlife scene are located here, and some excellent restaurants too, so if it’s past 7 PM, it is definitely an area worth a visit.

When it comes to the combination of casual atmosphere, great food and superb design the Coffee Bar (13 Yad Harutzim St., Tel 03-6889696) is probably among the best places to dine in Tel Aviv. This mostly French cuisine bistro is accompanied by a rich wine list and friendly service, in what is often referred to as one of the best casual restaurants in the country.

Another culinary treat nearby is Vince and Tamar (10 Hazfira St., Tel: 03-6390407), which is an industrial-chic Italian restaurant. You will find no formal menus here, but daily specials listed on a blackboard. The moderate prices are more than reasonable for your diner value.

Yad Harutzim hosts many nightclubs in a pretty condensed area. The Dome is one of the city’s well established Mega-clubs, usually playing house and techno music. Prices are not cheap, but you will get your money’s worth if Mega-Clubs are your cup of tea. Nearby are the SO and the VOX nightclubs, both offering the same type of music to similar crowd, happy and friendly (especially after a couple of drinks).

If the underground scene and some experimental music are your thing, Café Barzilay is a smaller club that frequently hosts great DJs from abroad. Sometimes there are live performances of alternative Israeli artists too.

If you’re looking for mega-bars, mega-clubs or good restaurants in a downtown atmosphere, then Yad Harutzim is the place for you to visit. Bare in mind that traffic is pretty crowded there so you’d better come with Sherut (service) shared taxis, which has stops nearby on its way to the Central Bus Station.

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Tel Aviv Business travel

Tel Aviv offers a wide selection of business services throughout the city, including secretariat services, dry cleaning and Wi-Fi access, to make your Tel Aviv business travel as convenient as possible. There is a wide selection of business services throughout Tel Aviv, and most of the hotels provide secretariat services as well as dry cleaning and WI-Fi access, to make your Tel Aviv business travel as convenient as possible. Business travelers enjoy up-to-date technology in most of Tel Aviv's hotels. All 4-star and 5-stars hotels have business lounges with services such as Internet, fax machines, printers, typing and basic translations. In addition, there are three digital business centers of Kwik-Copy in Tel Aviv, offering efficient business solutions and services. They are located at 50 Ehad Ha'am Street, at 1 King David St. (next to Kikar Rabin), and at building No. 6 in Kiryat Atidim. Your Tel Aviv business travel is trouble-free also when it comes to Wi-Fi access. The city has many hotspots with Wi-Fi services for laptop users, most of them are offered free of charge to clients. Wi-Fi services are offered by hotels, restaurants and coffee shops, as well as in gas stations, parks and shopping malls. The Atlas hotels chain offers unlimited and free of charge Wi-Fi services in Tal Hotel, Melody Hotel, City Hotel, Cinema Hotel, Art + Hotel and Center Hotel. Additional business hotels are: Grand court, Savoy hotel, Mercure Tel Aviv. In coffee shop chains, such as Arcaffè, Aroma, Coffee-To-Go and Ilan's, there are free wireless services, and you can find these services in convenience stores and gas stations as well, such as the Yellow chain, and in Dizengoff center shopping mall. All of the above mentioned hotels and most of other business hotels in the city offer dry cleaning services. In addition, there are numerous laundry places in Tel Aviv, most of which offer regular and dry cleaning services and free of charge delivery service. The central "Tip-Top Clean" at 242 Ben-Yehuda Street provides cleaning, laundry and ironing and offers free delivery service. "KvisKal" has two central branches for dry cleaning and laundry at 103 Ben-Yehuda Street and at 97 King George Street. There are many other dry cleaning places in Tel Aviv, so wherever you are staying during your Tel Aviv business travel, it won't take you over a minute to find one.

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