Tel Aviv Port

This guide to Tel Aviv Port traces its start in 1936, when Arab riots shut down the old port at nearby Jaffa and Greek Jewish dockworkers began driving pilings into the sand almost overnight to build a harbor of the city's own. It follows the crowd that gathered when a cargo ship anchored off the unfinished pier, the dying mayor Meir Dizengoff who came to see it, and the decade the port spent moving wartime supplies before bigger ships elsewhere left it to decay. Picture the sand dunes that once stood where you're walking, long before this waterfront had a shape at all.