The Yarkon Park (officially it is called Ganey-in honor of Joshua Yehoshua Rabinowitz, one of tel Aviv mayors) is the only large Park in tel Aviv, the "green lungs" of the city. Significance of urban residents Yarkon compared to new York's Central Park. Not surprisingly, the Yarkon so popular – for the year it is visited by about 16 million people.

Opened in 1973, the Park stretches along the longest coastal rivers of Israel, rushing to the Mediterranean, the Yarkon. The river is not considered pure, it was very dirty in the 1950-ies, and, although since then, efforts have been made to clean up, and in 2011 the mayor of tel Aviv ostentatiously jumped into the water and swam, the locals advise you to fish. Despite this, the Park feel storks, herons, geese, ducks and many other birds and nutrias, porcupines, mongooses and even jackals.

To see the sights, you can hire a bike and ride the Park from end to end. A bike path runs along the river Bank. There are frequent and cyclists, and runners, and fans of Nordic walking sticks, and walking with dogs. If you start from the West side, the path will pass by the building of the rowing centre, built in the form of an upturned boat; past the Memorial to the victims of terrorism; passing the multiple sports fields (for fans of basketball, soccer, baseball, roller skates, tennis, rock climbing). Then, passing under several bridges, can be wrapped to a group of gardens – tropical, rocks, cacti.

Generally most of the trees in the Park – eucalypts, their once specially distributed in Israel for better drainage of wetlands. But in the tropical garden you can admire orchids, lianas, and palms. The rock garden is a large collection of samples of rocks characteristic of the Israeli landscape, with poetical explanations: for example, limestone plaque called a gift of the sea, and granite – a message from the depths. In the cactus garden presents more than 3 thousand species of these plants.

Next to the gardens lies an artificial lake with swans. Many take here you can hire boats, pedalos, kayaks, or by expanding our sandwiches and have a picnic on the beach. Far from a small dam on the Yarkon river are the ruins of the mills of the nineteenth century, built on the site of a more ancient (it is possible that the flour grind here in Roman times). The place is called "Seven mills". Visitors with children are attracted to and mini-zoo "Capri", and the butterfly Conservatory, and playgrounds. "Capri" inhabited mostly by birds (among them the majority of parrots), but there are also turtles, and rabbits, and Guinea pigs – they can be ironed.

The walk ends in the Eastern part of the Yarkon Park. The bike path goes on, but tired of new experiences tourists can relax in Menadione", Israel's largest water Park with dozens of rides and water slides and pools for all ages.