The first thing that Adam – the assistant manager who took us to our room at the Montefiore boutique hotel in Tel Aviv – did upon our arrival was to point out where the bomb shelters were.

We know, there are A LOT! But these hotels are the coolest in the Middle East heat by a landslide. The R48 Hotel & Garden is as intimate and boutique as it gets in Tel Aviv. The 11-suite hotel is ...

our handpicked boutique hotels... Take your plush pick of seaside views or Bauhaus cityscapes from the top Tel Aviv hotels. Scattered all over the city's grid, options like the Norman hotel ...