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If you want to find great art, who better to ask than the local artists? Here they give us their favourites

Tucking into a plate of seafood by the sea is one of life's great pleasures, says the Guardian food writer Matthew Fort, who once ate five lobsters in one sitting

With its seafront location, all-hours club scene, east-meets-west restaurant culture and easy access to major Holy Land sites, Tel Aviv is the Mediterranean's new capital of cool, says Dan Kaufman.

It sounds like a weekend break too far, but David Munk crams in a fortnight's worth of fun in Tel Aviv.

Tel Aviv has the edge of Belfast, the spirit of Rio and the 24-hour attitude of New York. Mark Espiner attempts to go the distance on a diet of hip-hop and humous