French delicacies like éclairs and macarons are sharing bakery-case real estate with sponge strudels. Argentinian cookies are popping up in bakeries. Artisan bread is on the rise.

My husband, our two sons—ages 7 and 10—and I are spending a year in Israel. We went from Brooklyn to Bavli, a neighborhood in Tel Aviv.

Israel’s only English-language Internet radio station, TLV1, broadcasts 24/7 with shows on music, from pop to world to indie; art and culture; politics; and more. There

Sarona, the 150-year-old Templer village and former British Army headquarters, is now Tel Aviv's newest lifestyle hub.

El Al Israel Airlines will soon begin nonstop service between Tel Aviv and Boston.