Israelis Hit The Beach As Tel Aviv Enjoys Warm Unseasonable Weather (PHOTOS)

As most of Europe and much of North America's eastern regions continue to dig themselves out of immense snowfalls, Israelis are enjoying a much different set of weather conditions during the last few days of 2010.

Unusually warm temperatures reaching 26 degrees Celcius (79 degrees Fahrenheit) had many residents in and around Tel Aviv reaching for their swimsuits before heading to nearby beach resorts.

While the hot, sunny weather may look serene, sources at Israel's Meteorological Service say that drought has been plaguing the nation and the Palestinian territories for some time, with overall rainfall over the past five years coming in at below-average levels.

Take a look at enviable photos of Israelis hitting the beach in December here:

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CrazyEyes said on 29 Wednesday 2010 pm31 4:57 pm: While Israeli families enjoy the beach, Palestinian fishermen are shot at for approaching the water.

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[Leo Bloom]

01:01 PM on 12/30/2010

Esti Mamo.
The new super hot Is-li model
http://www.myspace.com/estimamo/photos/albums/album/0

[Avirahim]

10:58 AM on 12/30/2010

Amazing photos, you would never tell by looking at them, there is Gaza Concentration Camp and the Apartheid West Bank right next door.

[Leo Bloom]

12:50 PM on 12/30/2010

the wall was built so people of Is-el, jish Xtin, Arab and tourists can enjoy the beach without the usual interference from the followers of Religion of Pieces.

[Avirahim]

01:25 PM on 12/30/2010

"January 16, 2009 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ?
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Petitions by Change.org|Get Widget|Start a Petition � Gaza is an immense concentration camp -- 1.5 million people squeezed into 140 square miles hemmed in on all sides by 25-foot-high walls separated by a vast expanse of bulldozed earth. The 2005 "pull-out" left Gaza still controlled by Israel from air and sea, its entries and exits prisonlike mazes electronically controlled and under constant surveillance. Bombing it, assaulting it with tanks and Uzis, is like shooting animals in a pen. The claptrap about "pinpoint" accuracy and "avoiding civilians" is a lie so flagrant, so transparent, that any child -- certainly any Gaza child -- could grasp it."

http://www.alternet.org/world/120197/gaza_is_a_concentration_camp__/

[Avirahim]

01:25 PM on 12/30/2010

"Israeli Apartheid Week organizers across the globe are gearing up for the 7th year of actions in support of Palestinian Civil Society's call for Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). Last year’s IAW was incredibly successful with over 55 cities worldwide joining the week to end Israel’s apartheid."

http://apartheidweek.org/

[StCuthbert]

07:48 PM on 12/30/2010

Those places do not exist.

[Avirahim]

08:16 PM on 12/31/2010

Of course you would deny, Palestinian oppression, you are pro-oppressors.

[deepfreezevideo]

01:46 AM on 12/30/2010

Not a single photo of any sexy Israeli bikini babes...what's the point?

[Leo Bloom]

12:45 PM on 12/30/2010

Here you go:
http://www.zimbio.com/Girls+Gone+Wild/articles/91LI0n6JKa6/Sexy+Beach+Girls+From+Israel

[deepfreezevideo]

05:39 PM on 12/30/2010

Wow, strangers sending me smut!
What a great world we live in....oh hi honey, just looking at some pics of Israel...isn't that a nice doggie....OWWWW!!!!

[LAThinker]

12:47 AM on 12/30/2010

Great weather, great country, great people. God bless Israel!!!

[Leo Bloom]

12:52 PM on 12/30/2010

Funny thing is thousands of black Africans dream and clamour for a chance to live in Is-el while avoiding the various Islamic Paradises like the bubonic plague.

[Avirahim]

01:29 PM on 12/30/2010

"Ethiopian Jews Find Israel To Be A Racist State

RISHON LEZION, ISRAEL - Alimu Ishete was trying to bridge the divide between Ethiopian Jews and their adopted country. During a recent talk in this Tel Aviv suburb, he brought out a traditional white robe, worn in Ethiopian villages on Jewish holidays, and picked away at the krar, an Ethiopian guitar.

His audience of Israeli educators listened closely. After two decades, it seemed it was the first time they were really hearing about Ethiopian Jews.

The gap between black and white Israelis seems, with some exceptions, to be growing. For Ethiopians, it is visible in impoverished neighborhoods, soaring unemployment, and the highest high-school dropout rate of any Jewish group in Israel. "

http://www.rense.com/general25/rct.htm

[Leo Bloom]

02:11 PM on 12/30/2010

Eritrean Yirgalam Beyene's tired eyes swell with tears as she recalls the day her son was killed.
One night in April 2008, Beyene found herself lying in the cold sand of Egypt's vast Sinai desert, nervously eyeing the barbed-wired fence that separated her from her destination: Israel.
Only a few hundred meters away, the fence along the border was low enough to jump. But Beyene, who was there with her three children and a group of some 20 asylum seekers from Eritrea, Darfur and southern Sudan, knew that before they reached the other side they would have to get past the armed Egyptian border police.

For 25-year-old Adam Khamise, who fled the war-torn Sudanese province of Darfur and arrived in Israel in July 2007, the choice was clear. "In Egypt I was always being harassed by the police and I wasn't allowed to work. So how could I make money to buy food?" In Israel, Rozen says, asylum seekers may be turned down for work permits, but a majority finds work,

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1946861,00.html#ixzz19cjrG5SK

[nycpaladin]

01:05 AM on 12/30/2010

Or perhaps it's just an example of your ray cyst ignorance.

[Leo Bloom]

12:53 PM on 12/30/2010

Not perhaps. For sure.

[MarcEdward]

08:19 PM on 12/29/2010

Looks exactly like Myrtle Beach South Carolina - big high rises built almost in the water, no room for people.

[sj3819]

04:32 PM on 01/02/2011

Actually, the beach at Tel Aviv is beautiful, wide and very accessible.

[fromdnorth]

07:36 PM on 12/29/2010

Only on HP -

[CrazyEyes]

04:57 PM on 12/29/2010

While Israeli families enjoy the beach, Palestinian fishermen are shot at for approaching the water.

[Leo Bloom]

12:46 PM on 12/30/2010

http://www.rafahtoday.org/newsphotos/07/july/28july/Palestinian%20families%20enjoyng%20their%20time%20on%20the%20Gaza%20beach.jpg

[Nwo2012]

01:45 PM on 12/29/2010

Seems busy. Maybe visit a segregated Israeli beach instead. They seem less popular for some reason.

[Vlady]

02:44 PM on 12/29/2010

>>...visit a segregated Israeli beach instead. They seem less popular for some reason.

I tell you the reason of segregation: a degree of s2pidity

[fromdnorth]

07:38 PM on 12/29/2010

Pretoria North

[TheLonelyGod]

04:49 PM on 12/29/2010

Talking points uber alles.

[persianadvocate]

11:15 PM on 12/29/2010

How's your site that slanders and defames HuffingtonPost going?

[Debussey Clidela]

01:33 PM on 12/29/2010

Lookin good Israel. Keep it up. Congrats on that huge gas find too. Israel is a winner.

[jennyopines]

02:40 PM on 12/29/2010

The gas find that is being contested by lebanon? You may want to hold off on the congrats...the jury is still out on who has dibs on it.

[MarcEdward]

08:20 PM on 12/29/2010

Every beach in North Carolina looks better than that mess. 
Looks like they really ruined a great natural resource.

[shadenelkhatib]

08:34 PM on 12/29/2010

They ruin everything else....the lives of millions...why not a beach.

[RudyHaugeneder]

01:12 PM on 12/29/2010

No water. More war. The future is here.

[Vlady]

02:17 PM on 12/29/2010

>>The future is here.

The great one

[pgmark]

12:41 PM on 12/29/2010

Great non-story should be on the travel or weather page

[MarcEdward]

08:21 PM on 12/29/2010

Who would travel there?
Those photos are more of a warning - don't come here unless you want to be crowded and unhappy.

[lainey]

10:25 PM on 12/29/2010

Israel's beaches are beautiful, especially Nitzanem. The more remote ones are always better...but that is true for everywhere. As for Tel Aviv, it is quite amazing. A few months ago I saw the Jewish people celebrating Rosh Hashana and the Muslim people celebrating Ramadan...all on the same beach pictured.

[squiems]

02:45 PM on 01/02/2011

better than dubai's beaches, at times among the most polluted in the world due to their shameful lack of environmental stewardship. I've literally seen human waste floating near a resort there.

[nigelwolsey]

12:21 PM on 12/29/2010

Thank god they can go to the beach. Last time a Palestinian family went to a Gaza beach they were blown to bits by an Israeli missile.

[israel chic]

12:42 PM on 12/29/2010

the jews living in gaza left their beach paradise to leave gazans alone. if gaza hadnt insisted on sending a rocket a day to israel we would have left you to your own beach.

[Nwo2012]

08:29 PM on 12/29/2010

Why were you Israelis there in Gaza anyway? Gaza doesn't belong to Israel.

[Vlady]

02:20 PM on 12/29/2010

>> Last time a Palestinia­n family went to a Gaza beach

Was it a Monday?

[JoeMomma]

12:14 PM on 12/29/2010

And this is news because?

[SiberianRat]

12:19 PM on 12/29/2010

Lotsa people click on Israel stories.

[israel chic]

12:43 PM on 12/29/2010

it's extremely unusual weather for israel, which usually follows Mediterranean weather.

[SiberianRat]

12:45 PM on 12/29/2010

I was there last year around this time and there were also a couple of beach days.