Independence Park

This guide to Independence Park in Tel Aviv opens in 1962, when bulldozers preparing a hotel foundation struck bone and uncovered a Muslim cemetery that had served Jaffa since 1902, its heart a centuries-old shrine to a local saint. You'll hear how the park itself was planted in 1949, on Israel's first Independence Day, and how a judge's ruling let construction proceed over the objections of Jaffa's Arab residents. The guide also follows a second, hidden history of the same gardens after dark. Best heard walking toward the low wall south of the hotel.