Bialik Square

This guide to Bialik Square in Tel Aviv opens in 1924, with the city's mayor renaming a dusty hill's dirt track after a poet who hadn't yet set foot in the country. You'll hear how Meir Dizengoff courted Haim Nachman Bialik to build his home right here, and about the poet's prickly habit of correcting the town's own official Hebrew after he arrived. The guide also traces how the square filled in around him, with a museum, parades, and protests against British rule. Best heard standing at the square's center, looking toward the house he once lived in.