1.   Most, like the United States, have located their main representations in the Mediterranean metropolis of Tel Aviv.

2.   Scores of police cars and ambulances raced through the jammed streets of the Mediterranean metropolis to reach the scene.

3.   The construction will turn the bustling but low-rise Mediterranean metropolis into something akin to Manhattan or Hong Kong, visiting French architect Jean Nobel told the Tel Aviv weekly.

4.   The modern Mediterranean metropolis of Tel Aviv has become the latest battleground in an escalating cultural war between religious and secular Jews.

5.   This modern Mediterranean metropolis has become the latest battleground in an escalating cultural war between religious and secular Jews.

6.   There should be a secular Israel centered around Tel Aviv and a theocracy of Judea somewhere east of the Mediterranean metropolis, Kaniuk said on a TV talk show.