South Tel Aviv and East Tel Aviv are two overlapping areas of Tel Aviv.
. . . Tel Aviv/South and East . . .
When referring to “South” Tel Aviv, people commonly mean the part of Tel Aviv which is south to Yehuda Halevi and Harakevet streets – excluding Jaffa which is considered a separate part, although it is also “below” those streets. “East” Tel Aviv is the part east of Ayalon Highway (excluding the part north of the Yarkon River). The two areas overlap in the southeastern neighborhoods.
South Tel Aviv has been neglected for decades, rendering large parts of it an industrial urban wasteland. However, since the early 1990s, and following a massive housing price increase in central Tel Aviv, a gentrification process has changed the face of many areas in south Tel Aviv – as many artists, students, and eventually middle-class (and in some cases upper-class) families moved in. Another factor greatly affecting South Tel Aviv’s character is the influx of migrant workers from Africa, China and Southeast Asia, whose presence diversified the area significantly.
See Tel Aviv#Get in for details of how to reach Tel Aviv from other Israeli cities or from the airport.
By train:1 HaHaganah train station serves South and East Tel Aviv.
By bus: buses throughout the country as well as across the city converge on 1 New Central Bus Station, Levinski Street. A vast sprawling case study in how not to design a transport hub. Construction dragged on for 26 years, the shopping mall and office space failed to let, and the layout for travellers is one big mess. It’s become populated by migrant communities and an ethnic indoors market with hundreds of stores offering everything from phone cards to fake Versace sunglasses. There’s a Yiddish Museum and one chamber has become a bat cave. Most inter-city buses leave from the main (north) wing of the 6th floor. Local buses leave from the main (north) wing of the 7th, while inter-city buses for Galilee leave from the south wing of the 7th. 
. . . Tel Aviv/South and East . . .