Netanya Attractions

In the moshav of Avihayil, 4km/2.5mi north of the town center of Netanya, is the Jewish Legion Museum, which illustrates the achievements of Jewish units in the British army during the First World War.

Netanya's principal street, named after Theodor Herzl, is lined with shops, restaurants and cafes. Herzl Street runs west from the main Tel Aviv-Haifa road, passing the Head Post Office (at the corner of David Raziel Street), the principal synagogue, the bus station (on Benyamin Boulevard), the central taxi rank (in Zion Square) and the Town Hall, to Ha'atzmaut Square (Kikar Ha'atzmaut) with its gardens and fountains. On the seaward side is the tourist information office, and along the north side is a small park with a modern amphitheater facing the sea. There are numerous restaurants round the square, but the town's hotels are to be found in the streets running north-south, almost all of them with a view of the sea.

The town's main north-south artery is a wide street known to the south of Herzl Street as Benyamin Boulevard and to the north as Weizmann Boulevard. In a parallel street to the east is the Market Hall, offering a wide range of fruit and vegetables, meat and fish. To the west of Weizmann Boulevard is a rehabilitation center for the blind, established after the Second World War, with a library of books in braille and a museum (art exhibitions).

Also of interest are the diamond-cutting workshops, with showrooms, in the south of the town (Yahalom Street).