Top 10 Reasons You Know it is Summer in Tel Aviv

10. You Take 3 cold showers a day but the water is never cold enough.
9. You are always on the lookout for your next ice coffee.
8. You don’t hang your laundry outside during the day because the sun will bleach the colors (speaking from experience).
7. You always have a bottle of ice in the freezer to take to the beach on a moment’s notice.
6. You choose which side of the street to walk on based on the side with more shade.
5. Dizengoff Center is packed full of people who are escaping from the heat.
4. You are in a race with your ice cream to see if you can eat it before it melts.
3. When it is 1:00 am and it is still hot and humid outside, you know the next day will be a killer.
2. You get used to your clothes sticking to you and you don’t even notice when you start dripping.
1. The idea of moving out of the city to somewhere less humid crosses your mind weekly…but like Dorothy says: “there’s no place like home.”