Banana Beach

This guide to Banana Beach in Tel Aviv opens with the Friday drum circle that gathers on its rocks each week, then rewinds to a squat building that once stood nearby: first a failed dolphin show, later a discotheque locals knew as Dolphinarium Beach. It traces the venue's history and the young crowd lining up outside its doors one night in June 2001. The building stood empty for years afterward, spray-painted and boarded up, before briefly reopening as a surf school.