Yarkon Park

This guide to Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv turns on one afternoon in 1997, when nearly a hundred Australian athletes stepped onto a hastily built footbridge over the Yarkon River for the opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Games, and a crackling sound rose beneath their feet. It traces who built that bridge and what came of the crossing in the years after. Best heard standing at the water's edge, near the quieter footbridge that has since replaced it.