The annual Tel Aviv Marathon – Israel’s biggest sporting event with 40,000 participants – will take place Feb. 26. This year, the Tel Aviv Marathon is a 42-km urban route beginning at the Tel Aviv Convention Center in northern Tel Aviv. The course leads the runners to the Tel Aviv boardwalk and the opportunity to run along the shore of the Mediterranean Sea and white sandy beaches. The route is also a run through history when it arrives in Jaffa, Tel Aviv’s old city and one of the most ancient port cities in the world. At this point the track routes in to the city centre.