The Tel Aviv University Botanical Garden

This guide to the Tel Aviv University Botanical Garden opens with a puzzle: how a fig tree gets pollinated without wind, by inviting a tiny wasp into a pouch that looks like a fruit but isn't one. You'll hear how a professor named Jacob Galil planted the garden's fig avenue as a living laboratory in the early 1970s, and how the garden doubles as a refuge for Israel's rarest native plants. The story also follows a later real-estate developer's private fortune poured into rebuilding the place.