Budget travelers can choose from a wide range of vegetables and fruits from the street shops, grocery shops and super market, and cook their food in the communal kitchen of their hostels. There are up market restaurants where you can get all kinds of cosmopolitan food.

As Israel has a very liberal society you can find bars in most towns, along with different types of discos and music venues. Traditional nightlife can be experienced at Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Beersheba, where Israeli folk dancing and traditional live music from the Diaspora is regularly performed. Classical music is performed all over the country. Arab entertainment is mostly music from the neighbouring countries like Egypt. There is a small theatre in East Jerusalem.

Sandals, T-shirts, Ceramics, copper and Brassware, woodwork, glassware, cane and basket ware, fashionable leather ware and furs and jewelry. Israel’s shops are full of expensive souvenirs. You have to look around for bargain items and the special ones are of religious interest and the Armenian ceramics. Bargaining is normal in Israel but not at the department stores, drug stores and super markets.

Shops are open Sunday to Thursday: 08.00 to 13.00 and 16.00 to 19.00, and Fridays and holidays: 08.30 to 14.00. In Haifa many shops close on Tuesday afternoons.