Flying via Amsterdam to Israel – Tips for your Stopover

Earlier this year, I flew KLM/Delta to Israel, with a nice 8+ hour stopover in Amsterdam. I liked this option as it gave me the opportunity to leave the AMS airport and explore the city.

In the short time there I managed to figure out exactly how to (using public transportation only) get to the Jewish area to find the Kosher restaurants, head downtown, find a couple attractions, and get back to the airport in time for my flight to TLV.

Now I’m hearing more friends opting to take this route, since it’s a cheaper option to flying El Al, and it offers a short European excursion…. and it doesn’t hurt that flying KLM is an amazing experience!

Flying on KLM, we were offered fairly large kosher meals from Borenstein Caterers, and they were pretty good all things considered. Remember to call your airline the week before your flight to confirm that you will have a kosher meal on EACH leg of your trip. (If you have a stopover in each direction, that’s 4 legs).

When we arrived at AMS around 12pm local time, we took our carry-on luggage and deposited it in one of many lockers in the airport for about €5. Be sure to remember exactly where that locker is, because we got lost trying to find it on our way back.

Inside the airport there is a huge train terminal, with intercity trains leaving every few minutes. Trains can take you into Amsterdam, around Holland, or even south to Brussels, Antwerp, and Paris.

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Café Yonita in Tel Aviv [Review]

On our third day in Israel, we headed over to check out Tel Aviv and Yafo. We met up with a friend of Dani’s (Jonah) who made Aliyah and lives in Tel Aviv. He showed us around the streets of Tel Aviv and took us to the Nachalat Binyamin Artists market, which they have on Tuesdays and Fridays. We were starving and stopped for Brunch at a a really cute place called Yonita.

Yonita is a dairy restaurant that serves, Israeli breakfast, pastas, paninis, salads and amazing coffee. The restaurant has an indoor section, but we chose to sit in its outdoor area, which flows onto Nachalat Binyamin. Its outdoor tables are shaded with umbrellas and the waitresses come out serve those tables as well.

I had been hearing about Cafe Hafuch and was dying to try it so Dani and I shared one. [There is nothing like the coffee in Israel. It is seriously unbelievable. Rich, bold, full of flavor, each cup tasted like it was made for you. Cafe Hafuch is like a latte only with a higher milk to espresso ration making it super creamy and of course uniquely Israeli. (Israeli's sure love their dairy). I could drink them all day everyday. Sadly there is nothing in America that quite compares. It's not surprising that Starbucks failed in Israel. Any little hole in the wall coffee shop in Israel makes Starbucks pale in comparison.]

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Tags: artists market, cafe hafuch, cafe yonita, Israeli breakfast, israeli coffee, kosher israel, kosher tel aviv, nachalat binyamin, tel aviv, telaviv, tlv, yafo

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Cinnabon is Opening a Kosher Shop in Tel Aviv!

If you’re like me, you drool every time you pass a Cinnabon shop in the U.S. The way those cinnamon buns smell and look make me hungry and want to skip lunch just to try them.

So we’re excited to report that Cinnabon is opening a Kosher shop in Tel Aviv by Rabin Square at the corner of Ibn Gvirol st. 62and Zeitlin st.

Now … I need a kosher Cinnabon in NYC.

Thank you to @BenjiLovitt for the h/t.

Tags: cinnabon, Israel, Kosher, kosher cinnabon, kosher cinnamon buns, rabin square, tel aviv

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