Florentin

This guide to Florentin in Tel Aviv follows the 1997 TV drama Florentine, whose story of broke twenty-something friends fleeing Jerusalem for cheap rooms here became a national jolt with the first same-sex kiss shown on Israeli television. You'll hear about the show's characters, including a young actress who later worked with Steven Spielberg, and the neighborhood's earlier history as a Greek Jewish immigrant quarter founded in the 1920s. Look closely at the murals covering the old workshop walls as you walk.