Eilat tips

• Eilat: As Innocent as it is old

  When you climb into a taxi and ask to be taken to “Patio Antenna, inside”, you’re actually going to a small residential neighborhood of homes that are built with an internal patio (hence the name). There are several of these blocks, and Patio Antenna (Literally, the “Antenna Patio” in English), is known for being home [...]

• Eilat – where the streets have no name

  or: why our addresses are so funny For historical reasons, much of the city doesn’t use the traditional street-name-and-number address system. For years, people referred to locations by number – each building had its own number, and many Eilatis didn’t even know their proper address. If you wanted to go somewhere, you simply hopped in [...]