Holon

Understand

The city's name comes from the Hebrew word for sand ("hol"), due to the sand dunes it is built on. It is also the name of a city in the Bible (Joshua 15:51), though nobody knows where exactly that city was.

Holon was founded in 1940 as a merger of existing 5 neighborhoods.

Though the city has a reputation as a boring working-class suburb, in the early 2010s, it developed a variety of museums and attractions quite disproportionate to its size. Some attractions are completely unique in Israel, like "Dialogue In The Dark", an activity in the Israeli Children's Museum where you perform activities in complete darkness to understand what life is like for blind people.

Get around

The city is small, and often you can get from place to place on foot. But in the summer heat, you'll want to take a bus, car, or taxi even for short distances.

Egged and Metropoline operate 3 internal bus lines (lines 4, 5, 22), and you can also take a bus headed for Tel Aviv or another part of the urban area.

Do

thumb|Children's museum in Holon

Buy

The city has a single shopping mall and some small outdoor shopping centers.

Sleep

There are no hotels in Holon. You can stay at a hotel in the neighboring cities Bat Yam and Tel Aviv.

Go next

Tel Aviv Bat Yam Rishon LeZion Ramla