Tel Aviv-Yafo
Tel Aviv's hotels from a southern point
Hebrew	תֵּל אָבִיב-יָפוֹ
Arabic	تَلْ أَبِيبْ يَافَا
Name Meaning	Spring Hill
Founded in	1909
Government	City
District	Tel Aviv
Population	382.500[1] Metro: 2.90 million[2] (2006) Image File history File linksMetadata 800px-Tel_Aviv_Beachs. ... Image File history File links Tel Aviv coat of arms This image depicts a seal, an emblem, a coat of arms or a crest. ... Hebrew redirects here. ... Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ... Year 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The city of Chicago, as seen from the sky The main square of the Catalan city of Sabadell during a popular celebration. ... Map of the districts of Israel There are six main administrative districts of Israel, known in Hebrew as mehozot (מחוזות; singular: mahoz) and fifteen sub-districts known as nafot (נפות; singular: nafa). ... The Tel Aviv District of Israel includes the following towns and cities: Bat Yam בת ים Bene Beraq בני ברק Givatayim גבעתיים Herzliyya הרצליה Holon חולון Or Yehuda &#1488...
Jurisdiction	50,553 dunams (50.6 km²)
Mayor	Ron Huldai

The Azrieli Towers, a central part of the city's skyline.

Tel Aviv-Yafo (Hebrew: תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ‎; Arabic: تَلْ أَبِيبْ يَافَا‎) is the second largest city in Israel and is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It is also the main part of the largest and most populous metropolitan area in Israel, Gush Dan (Dan Bloc). A dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum is a unit of area. ... Ron Huldai was first elected Mayor of Tel Aviv-Jaffa in 1998. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Azrieli_towers. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Azrieli_towers. ... Hebrew redirects here. ... Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ... The city of Chicago, as seen from the sky The main square of the Catalan city of Sabadell during a popular celebration. ... Rugged coast of the West Coast of New Zealand The coast is defined as the part of the land adjoining or near the ocean. ... Composite satellite image of the Mediterranean Sea. ... Metropolitan area in Western Tokyo as seen from Tokyo Tower A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or... Gush Dan (Hebrew: גּוּשׁ דָּן, Standard Hebrew GuÅ¡ Dan) is the name of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area including areas from both the Tel Aviv District and the Central District of Israel on the Mediterranean coast. ...

Tel Aviv's jurisdiction is 50,553 dunams (50.6 km² or 19.5 sq mi). The population density is 7,445 people per km². According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), as of June 2006, the city's population stood at 382,500, growing at an annual rate of 0.9%. 96.1% percent of residents are Jewish, while 3.0% are Arab Muslims and 0.9% are Arab Christians. According to some estimates, about 50,000 unregistered foreign workers live in Tel Aviv. In law, jurisdiction (from the Latin jus, juris meaning law and dicere meaning to speak) is the practical authority granted to a formally constituted legal body or to a political leader to deal with and make pronouncements on legal matters and, by implication, to administer justice within a defined area... A dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum is a unit of area. ... Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה) is a state organization for the creation and maintenance of numeric data related to populations vis-à-vis the ethnic makeup of Israel and its cities. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... Languages Arabic other languages (Arab minorities) Religions Predominantly Muslim Some adherents of Druze, Judaism, Samaritan, Christianity Related ethnic groups Mizrachi Jews, Sephardi Jews[], Ashkenazi Jews, Canaanites, other Semitic-speaking groups An Arab (Arabic: ‎; transliteration: ) is a member of a Semitic-speaking people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories... A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ... This article is about the religous people known as Christians. ... Foreign farm worker, New York A foreign worker (also: guest worker or economic migrant), is a person who works in a country other than the one of which he or she is a citizen. ...

Origin of the name

The name Tel Aviv in Hebrew means "Hill (tel) of Spring (aviv)". This is the title given by Nahum Sokolow to his Hebrew translation of Theodor Herzl's book Altneuland (German: "The Old New Land"). Hebrew redirects here. ... Tell Mar Elias, North Jordan in 2005 Tell or tall (Arabic: ‎, tall, and Hebrew: , tel), meaning hill or mound, is an archaeological site in the form of an earthen mound that results from the accumulation and subsequent erosion of material deposited by human occupation over long periods of time. ... Spring is one of the four seasons of temperate zones, the transition from winter into summer. ... Nahum Sokolow (1859-1936) was a Zionist leader, author, translator, and a pioneer of Hebrew journalism. ... Theodor Herzl, in his middle age. ... The Old New Land (or Altneuland in the original German) is a utopian novel published by Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, in 1902. ...

There is an account that Sokolow came up with the Hebrew title "Tel Aviv" to allude to the destruction of the ancient Jewish state and its hoped-for restoration: aviv = "spring" to symbolize renewal; and tel to symbolize the destruction of the ancient state, following not the usual Hebrew meaning of the word "tel" but its use in archaeology, meaning "mound of accumulated ruins". Sokolow took the name from the Book of Ezekiel, 3:15 : "Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days." (The spelling in the King James Version of the Bible is Telabib [1]). The Aviv referred to is possibly an indirect reference to a Mesopotamian god or goddess believed to bring forth the season of spring. Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech/discourse) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... Ezekiel the Prophet of the Hebrew Scriptures is depicted on a 1510 Sistine Chapel fresco by Michelangelo. ... H:For other uses of King James Version, see King James Version (disambiguation). ... Mesopotamia refers to the region now occupied by modern Iraq, eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and Southwest Iran. ...

Jaffa is Yafo in Hebrew, which may well be derived from yafah/yofi (beautiful) or may simply come from the name of its founder, Japheth, son of Noah. This port city is mentioned in the book of Jonah. A mention of the city by the name of "Japo" was found on an ancient Egyptian tax register clay tablet found at Tel el-Amarna, which could render the etymological derivation from "yofi" (or "Yefet") unlikely. Yunus redirects here. ... Amarna The site of Amarna (commonly known as el-Amarna or incorrectly as Tel el-Amarna; see below) (Arabic: العمارنة al-‘amārnä) is located on the east bank of the Nile River in the modern Egyptian province of al-Minya, some 58 km (38 miles) south of the city of... Etymology is the study of the origins of words. ...

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History

Tel Aviv was founded on empty dunes north of the existing city of Jaffa. This photograph is of the auction of the first lots.

Rothschild Boulevard

The corner of Sheinkin St. & King George St.

Interior view of Tel Aviv's largest shopping mall in Azrieli Center

The Engineering Faculty Boulevard in Tel Aviv University

The Tel Aviv performing arts centre

The pagoda house in central Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv's main basketball arena

Multimodal traffic in Tel Aviv: pedestrians, private vehicles, buses, trucks and taxis (and accessible from the other side of the building shown is also a train station).

Dizengoff Square, named after Zina Dizengoff, the wife of Tel Aviv's first mayor Meir Dizengoff. The fountain was designed by Yaacov Agam and combines fire, water, movement and music.

Central Tel Aviv Panorama

South Tel Aviv from the Azrieli Tower

Tel Aviv's Beach at Winter

Old Tel Aviv Harbor

Tel Aviv Skyline from the Carmel mountains, 80 km away

The Yarqon Park

The settlement in the area of modern southern Tel Aviv (the neighbourhoods of Neve Shalom and Neve Tsedek) was started in the 1880s as a substitute for the relatively expensive Arab neighbourhoods of Jaffa. In 1908 the Ahuzat Bayit homebuilders association bought land north of Jaffa. Building started in 1909, and the association admitted members of two suburbs established nearby. In 1910, the common name of Tel Aviv was adopted. At its founding, Tel Aviv was intended only to be a suburb, a bedroom community, with the workers commuting to Jaffa. However, disputes between the Jews of Tel Aviv and the Arabs of Jaffa in 1921 led the inhabitants of Tel Aviv to create a new central business district. The master plan for development of the city, based on a framework of central routes and boulevards, was designed in 1925 by Patrick Geddes and adopted by the city council under Meir Dizengoff. 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Jaffa (Hebrew יָפוֹ, Standard Hebrew Yafo, Tiberian Hebrew Yāp̄ô; Arabic يَافَا Yāfā; also Japho, Joppa), is an ancient city located in Israel. ... Commuters waiting for the morning train in Maplewood, New Jersey A bedroom community, dormitory town, or commuter town is a community that is primarily residential in character, with most of its workers commuting to a nearby town or city to earn their livelihood. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Urban planning is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest towns to the worlds largest cities. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sir Patrick Geddes (1854 - 1932) was Scottish biologist and botanist, known also as an innovative thinker in the fields of urban planning and education He was responsible for introducing the concept of region to architecture and planning. ... Meir Dizengoff (Hebrew: מאיר דיזנגוף, Russian: Меер Янкелевич Дизенгоф, Meyer Yankelevich Dizengof; 1861, Akimovichi, Bessarabia - 1936, Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli politician and mayor of Tel Aviv. ...

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, for a period of eight months (May-December 1948) during the Arab blockade of Jerusalem it also served as the temporary capital of Israel. When Jerusalem was proclaimed the capital, most embassies stayed in the Tel Aviv area. Thirteen more moved there in the early eighties [2] [3]. Combatants Egypt Syria Transjordan  Lebanon Saudi Arabia Iraq Holy War Army Arab Liberation Army  Israel Commanders Glubb Pasha Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni† Hasan Salama† Fawzi al-Qawuqji Yaakov Dori Yigael Yadin Strength Egypt: 10,000 initially rising to 20,000 Iraq: 5,000 initially rising to 15,000–18... Look up Month in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Hebrew יְרוּשָׁלַיִם (Yerushalayim) (Standard) Yerushalayim or Yerushalaim Arabic commonly القـُدْس (Al-Quds); officially in Israel أورشليم القدس (Urshalim-Al-Quds) Name Meaning Hebrew: (see below), Arabic: The Holiness Government City District Jerusalem Population 724,000 (2006) Jurisdiction 123,000 dunams (123 km²) Mayor Uri Lupolianski Web Address www. ...

In 1950 Tel Aviv and Jaffa were united in the single municipality Tel Aviv-Yafo. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Tel Aviv has been targeted several times by Palestinian militant groups. On October 19, 1994, a suicide bomber exploded on the Line 5 bus killing himself and 25 civilians. On March 4, 1996, another suicide bomber exploded nearby at an ATM and killed 18 civilians. Оn June 1, 2001, a suicide bomber exploded in a line for a discotheque and 32 were killed and more than 100 were injured. On January 25, 2002, 20 were killed in a suicide attack. On January 5, 2003, in two nearly simultaneous attacks, 23 were killed. On 17 April 2006, 10 people were killed and dozens wounded in a suicide attack near the old Central bus station. October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... An NCR interior, multi-function ATM in the USA Smaller indoor ATMs dispense money inside convenience stores and other busy areas, such as this off-premise Wincor Nixdorf mono-function ATM in Sweden. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Dolphinarium Massacre was a suicide bombing carried out by a Hamas militant in a discotheque near the dolphinarium in Tel-Aviv, Israel on June 1, 2001. ... January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... April 17 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (108th in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

Culture and arts

Tel Aviv University is one of the largest universities in Israel. It has an excellent reputation internationally, mostly famous for its physics, computer science, chemistry and linguistics departments. The Engineering Faculty Boulevard The Smolarz Auditorium Tel Aviv University (TAU, אוניברסיטת תל אביב, אתא) is one of Israels major universities. ... A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... Physics (Greek: (phúsis), nature and (phusiké), knowledge of nature) is the science concerned with the discovery and understanding of the fundamental laws which govern matter, energy, space, and time and explaining them using mathematics. ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... For other uses, see Chemistry (disambiguation). ... Linguistics is the scientific study of language. ...

There are many cultural centers in Tel Aviv, including the Opera House where Plácido Domingo was the house tenor between 1962 and 1965, as well as the Culture Hall (with 3,000 seats). Tel Aviv also has many theatre companies and theatre halls. The Israeli National Theater, Habima Theater ("The Stage") is the most recognized, but the Tel-Aviv Municipal Cameri Theater, the Jaffa-based Gesher Theater, and Beit Lessin Theater are also well-konwn. Tzavta and Tmuna are smaller theaters used mainly for musical and fringe productions. In Jaffa, the Simta ("Alley") and Notzar ("created") theaters also specialize in fringe. José Plácido Domingo Embil (born January 21, 1941[1]), better known as Plácido Domingo, is a world-famous Spanish operatic tenor. ... Habima Theater (Hebrew: the stage) in Tel Aviv is Israels national theater and it is one of the first Hebrew theaters. ... Established over 60 years ago, as Israel’s first Hebrew-language repertory theater, the Cameri has been dubbed the “theater of social responsibility. ...

Tel Aviv has many museums and art galleries.

• The Eretz Israel Museum is known for its rich collection of archaeology and history exhibits.
• Tel Aviv Museum of Art is one of the major art museums in Israel.
• The campus of TAU houses the Jewish Diaspora Museum, dedicated to Jewish history throughout the world. Carrying both historical documents and art, the museum tells the story of Jewish prosperity and persecution throughout the centuries of exile.
• Batey Haosef Museum is a museum for the military history of the Israel Defense Forces. It is regarded by many experts and arms collectors as a real jewel, containing rare exhibits and authentic pieces from Israel's history as well as a wide variety of firearms and pictures.
• The Palmach Museum near Tel Aviv University offers a unique multimedia experience, as well as vast archives, depicting the lives of young self-trained Jewish soldiers who eventually became the first defenders of Israel.
• Near Charles Clore's garden in north Jaffa, Israel, there is a small museum of the Etzel Jewish militant organization, one of whose achievements was conquering Jaffa for Israel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
• The Tel Aviv Exhibition Centre which is located in the northern part of the city.
• Tel Aviv Raw Art contemporary art gallery which is located in the old bus station. Exhibits contemporary art of Israeli and international upcoming artists. Raw Art Gallery

Between the 1930s and 1950s, approximately 2500 structures in the Bauhaus or International Style were built in Tel Aviv. In July 2003, Tel Aviv's White City was declared by the UNESCO council as a World Heritage Site. The Eretz Israel Museum was established in 1953 in Ramat Aviv. ... The Tel Aviv Museum of Art was established in 1932 in Tel Aviv, in the home of Tel Avivs first mayor, Meir Dizengoff. ... Beth Hatefutsoth (Hebrew for The Diaspora House) - the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, was established in 1978, and is located on the Tel Aviv University campus in Ramat Aviv. ... The Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: Tefutzah, scattered, or Galut גלות, exile) is the dispersion of the Jewish people throughout Babylonia and the Roman Empire. ... The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (Hebrew: ‎  , [Army] Force for the Defense of Israel), often abbreviated with the Hebrew acronym צהל Tsahal, alternative English spelling Tzahal, is the name of Israels military forces, comprising the Israeli Army, the Israeli Air Force and the Israeli Sea Corps. ... Beit Hapalmach established in 2000, located in Ramat Aviv, is dedicated to the Palmach, the strike_force of the pre_state underground Hagana defense organization, which was later integrated into the Israel Defense Forces. ... Sir Charles Clore (1904-1979) was a British financier, retail and property magnate and philanthropist. ... Jaffa (Hebrew יָפוֹ, Standard Hebrew Yafo, Tiberian Hebrew Yāp̄ô; Arabic يَافَا Yāfā; also Japho, Joppa), is an ancient city located in Israel. ... Etzel emblem Irgun (ארגון), shorthand for Irgun Tsvai Leumi (ארגון צבאי לאומי, also spelled Irgun Zvai Leumi), Hebrew for National Military Organization, was a clandestine militant Zionist group that operated in Palestine from 1931 to 1948. ... Combatants Egypt Syria Transjordan  Lebanon Saudi Arabia Iraq Holy War Army Arab Liberation Army  Israel Commanders Glubb Pasha Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni† Hasan Salama† Fawzi al-Qawuqji Yaakov Dori Yigael Yadin Strength Egypt: 10,000 initially rising to 20,000 Iraq: 5,000 initially rising to 15,000–18... The Tel Aviv Exhibition Centre (a. ... For the British goth band, see Bauhaus (band). ... The Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, Germany (1927) The Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, Germany (1930) The International style was a major architectural trend of the 1920s and 1930s. ... The White City is the name given to Tel Aviv, Israel, because of the large number of white, or light-colored buildings built there between the 1920s and the 1950s in the Bauhaus or International style. ... UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ... A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated and confirmed for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State...

Tel Aviv has several public parks and gardens, the biggest being The Yarqon Park. Gan Meir, named after first mayor Meir Dizengoff, is located on King George Street. Ganei Yehoshua (Hebrew: גני יהושע, Joshuas Gardens), commonly referred to as Park HaYarqon, is Tel Avivs largest public park (3. ... Meir Dizengoff (Hebrew: מאיר דיזנגוף, Russian: Меер Янкелевич Дизенгоф, Meyer Yankelevich Dizengof; 1861, Akimovichi, Bessarabia - 1936, Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli politician and mayor of Tel Aviv. ...

Tel Aviv hosts the largest Gay Pride Parade in Israel followed by Jerusalem (the only country to do so in the Middle East), drawing upwards of 100,000 people. Tel Aviv is known for its openness as well as its thriving night life. Baton twirlers perform in the 2002 Divers/Cité pride parade in downtown Montreal A pride parade is part of a festival or ceremony held by the LGBT community of a city to commemorate the struggle for gay liberation, gay rights, and gay pride. ...

Economy

According to December 2001 statistics, Tel Aviv's socio-economic status was classified as high (8 out of 10). 63.1% percent of twelfth grade students received graduation certificates in 2000. In 2000, the average monthly wage stood at 6,773 NIS, roughly the national average.

According to Newsweek, Tel Aviv is a flourishing technological center. As a result of immigration from the former Soviet Union, many computer scientists now live and work in Tel Aviv. The city is considered by Newsweek to be one of the top ten most technologically influential cities in the world. Actually, it is the metropolitan area (including suburbs such as Herzlia and Petah Tikva) that contains much of Israel's high-tech muscle.^[3] The Newsweek logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally. ... Metropolitan area in Western Tokyo as seen from Tokyo Tower A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or... Herzliyya (הרצליה; also spelled Herzliyyah or Herzlia or Herzliya) is a city in Israel, on the central coastal strip in the south of the Sharon region, just north of Tel-Aviv (about 15 minutes drive), and part of the Tel-Aviv metropolitan area in the Tel-Aviv District. ... The Coat of Arms of Petah-Tikva Petah-Tikva (Hebrew פֶּתַח-תִּקְוָה opening of hope, Standard Hebrew Pétaḥ-Tiqva, also transliterated as Petach Tikva, Petah Tikvah, Petach Tikvah, Petaḥ Tiqwa or Petach Tiqwa) and nicknamed as Mother of Cities, is a city in the west of the Center District of Israel...

Sports

Tel Aviv is the home of some of the top sports teams in Israel, including a world-class basketball team. Tel Aviv is the only city with three teams in the Israeli football premier league. Israeli football is everything related to Association football (soccer) in Israel. ...

Maccabi Tel Aviv Sports Club was founded in 1906 and competes in over 10 sports. Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball has 46 Israeli titles, won 36 editions of the Israel cup, and has 5 European Championships. The Maccabi Tel Aviv FC football club has 18 Israeli league titles, won 22 editions of the Israel cup, two Israel Toto cup and two Asia cups. Maccabi's Judo club athlete Yael Arad won a silver medal in the 1992 Olympic Games. Maccabi Tel Aviv is a sport association in Israel, and part of the Maccabi association. ... Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv (Hebrew: מכבי תל-אביב) is a basketball team based in Tel Aviv, Israel. ... Maccabi Tel Aviv FC is an Israeli football club, part of the Maccabi Tel Aviv sports club. ... Judo ), meaning gentle way, is a modern Japanese martial art (gendai budō) and combat sport, that originated in Japan in the late nineteenth century. ... The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ...

Hapoel Tel Aviv Sports Club was founded in 1923, and over the years has included over 11 sports, including Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball club (5 Israeli championships, 4 Israeli cups) and Hapoel Tel Aviv football club (13 Israeli championships, 11 Israeli cups, one Toto cup and once Asia champion), kayaking Club, women's basketball club and more that have always been amongst the top Israeli clubs. Hapoel Tel Aviv Sports Club is a sports club founded in 1923, and over the years has included over 11 sports, including Hapoel Tel Aviv Basketball Club (5 Israeli championships, 4 Israeli cups) and Hapoel Tel Aviv Football Club (13 Israeli championships, 11 Israeli cups, one Toto cup and one... Hapoel Tel Aviv is an Israeli basketball club. ... Hapoel Tel Aviv (Hebrew: ‎) is an Israeli football club,The club is competing in Ligat haAl, the primary Israeli football league. ...

Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv Tel Aviv's football club (once Israeli champion, twice Israeli cup holder and twice Israeli Toto cup holder) is the only Israeli football team in the top division (Ligat Ha'al) that represents a neighbourhood - Shechunat Hatikva ("The Hope Neighbourhood") in Tel Aviv - and not a city. FC Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv (מועדון כדורגל בני יהודה תל אביב) is an israeli football club from the Hatikvah neighbourhood (Shkhunat Hatikva שכונת התקוה in Hebrew), Tel Avivs most notorious slum. ...

Other football clubs which used to play in the top division were Shimshon Tel Aviv and Beitar Tel Aviv, which are now merged into one team that plays in the 3rd division (Liga Artzit). Maccabi Yafo is another former 1st division team that currently plays in the lower divisions. The Liga Artzit (Hebrew: ליגה ארצית) is the third-highest division overall in the Israeli football league system after Ligat haAl (Premier League) and the Liga Leumit (National League). ...

Tel Aviv is also the home of many other sports. Two rowing clubs operate in Tel Aviv. The Tel Aviv Rowing Club, which was established as early as 1935 on the banks of the Yarkon River, is the biggest rowing club in Israel. A coxless pair which is a sweep-oar boat. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The beaches of Tel Aviv provide arguably the most vibrant Matkot scene in the world. Matkot, or beach paddleball, is a popular non-competitive game in Israel, sometimes named Israels unofficial national sport. ...

Climate

Tel Aviv has a mediterranean climate with hot summers and cool, rainy winters. The average temperature in summer is 26 °C and in winter, 12 °C. Humidity tends to be high all year round and October to April is the wet season. The average amount of precipitation is 530 millimetres. Once or twice every winter the temperature can drop down to around 6 °C in the early morning. The temperature can also reach 35 °C during heatwaves. The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ... A millimetre (American spelling: millimeter), symbol mm is an SI unit of length that is equal to one thousandth of a metre. ...

Transportation

Some of the city's main routes are King George Street, Allenby Street, Dizengoff Street, Rothschild Boulevard and in Jaffa - Jerusalem Boulevard, Jaffa. The main access route to Tel Aviv is Ayalon Highway (a.k.a. Highway 20), which goes through the city - north to south - on Ayalon River riverbed, which has been channeled and runs between the northbound and southbound lanes. Driving south on the Ayalon gives access to Highway 1, leading to Ben Gurion International Airport and to Jerusalem. Allenby Street by night Main street of city Tel Aviv, Israel. ... Rothschild Boulevard is a long boulevard in Tel Aviv which was built in 1910. ... Jaffa port Sunset at Jaffa port Jaffa ( Hebrew: יָפוֹ, Yafo Arabic: يَافَا  ; also Japho, Joppa; also, ~1350 B.C.E. Amarna Letters: Yapu; ), is an ancient port city located in south Tel Aviv, Israel on the Mediterranean Sea. ... The Ayalon Highway (Route 20) (Hebrew: נתיבי איילון, Netivey Ayalon) is a major expressway in the Tel Aviv region of Israel. ...

Other access routes are Namir Road (which connects to Highway 2, and provides access from the North) and Begin/Jabotinsky Road (which provides access from the east, through Ramat Gan, Bnei Brak and Petach Tiqva).

Tel Aviv has 4 train stations along the Ayalon Highway. The stops are from north to south: Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv Merkaz (Tel Aviv Central Train Station), Tel Aviv Hashalom (near Azrieli Center shopping mall) and Tel Aviv Hahaganah (near the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station). It is estimated that over a million people use the train from Rishon LeZion, Rehovot, and Petah Tikva to Tel Aviv and back, each month. Israel Railways (Hebrew: רכבת ישראל Rakevet Yisrael) is Israels government-owned national railway company and is responsible for all inter-city and suburban railway passenger and freight traffic in the country. ... David Joshua Azrieli, C.M., C.Q., B.A., M.Arch. ... The Tel Aviv Central Bus Station is the primary bus station in Tel Aviv, Israel. ... Rishon Le Zion in 2002 Rishon LeZion, or Rishon LeZiyyon (ראשון לציון) is a city in Israel, on the central coastal strip, in the Center District of Israel, just south of Tel Aviv, and part of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area (Gush... Rehovot (Hebrew רְחוֹבוֹת ) is a city in the Center District of Israel, about 20 km south of Tel Aviv. ... The Coat of Arms of Petah-Tikva Petah-Tikva (Hebrew פֶּתַח-תִּקְוָה opening of hope, Standard Hebrew Pétaḥ-Tiqva, also transliterated as Petach Tikva, Petah Tikvah, Petach Tikvah, Petaḥ Tiqwa or Petach Tiqwa) and nicknamed as Mother of Cities, is a city in the west of the Center District of Israel...

The Tel Aviv Central Bus Station, a large central bus station, is located in the south. The main bus network in Tel Aviv is operated by Dan Bus Company. Egged Bus Cooperative, the world's second-largest bus company, provides mainly intercity transportation to and from Tel Aviv. The Tel Aviv Central Bus Station is the primary bus station in Tel Aviv, Israel. ... An articulated bus operated by the CTA in Chicago, Illinois, USA. A Go North East Bus parked in a lay-by in Tyne and Wear, England A bus is a large road vehicle intended to carry numerous persons in addition to the driver and sometimes a conductor. ... Photograph of a Dan bus in Tel Aviv. ... Egged A bendy city bus in Israel. ...

Tel Aviv's airport is Dov Hoz Airport Sde Dov (code: SDV), located at the north of the city and serves as a major airport for domestic flights. Ben Gurion International Airport (code: TLV), Israel's main international airport for people and freight traffic, is located 15 km southeast of Tel Aviv near the city of Lod. Because of its proximity to Tel Aviv and its location within the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion International Airport is often referred to as Tel Aviv International Airport. The area of the airport, however, is not included in any municipal jurisdiction. Sde Dov Airport (IATA: SDV, ICAO: LLSD) is a municipal airport located in Tel Aviv, Israel. ... Ben Gurion International Airport or Ben Gurion Airport (Hebrew: ‎) (IATA: TLV, ICAO: LLBG), once widely known as Lod Airport, is located near Lod, 15 km southeast of Tel Aviv, and is the largest international airport in Israel. ... Downtown area of Lod Lod (Hebrew לוֹד; Arabic اَلْلُدّْ al-Ludd, Greco-Latin Lydda, Tiberian Hebrew לֹד Lōḏ) is a city in the Center District of Israel in Israel. ...

The first phase of the Tel Aviv Subway is planned to be completed by 2012, improving public transportation in the city dramatically. Tel Aviv Metro system has long been anticipated, as the major public transport mean of the largest and most active metropolitan of Israel. ...

Mayors of Tel Aviv

• Meir Dizengoff (1921–1925)
• David Bloch (1925–1927)
• Meir Dizengoff (1928–1936)
• Israel Rokach (1936–1952)
• Chaim Levanon (1953–1959)
• Mordechai Namir (1959–1969)
• Yehoshua Rabinowitz (1969–1974)
• Shlomo Lahat ("Chich") (1974–1993)
• Roni Milo (1993–1998)
• Ron Huldai (1998–)

Meir Dizengoff (Hebrew: מאיר דיזנגוף, Russian: Меер Янкелевич Дизенгоф, Meyer Yankelevich Dizengof; 1861, Akimovichi, Bessarabia - 1936, Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli politician and mayor of Tel Aviv. ... Meir Dizengoff (Hebrew: מאיר דיזנגוף, Russian: Меер Янкелевич Дизенгоф, Meyer Yankelevich Dizengof; 1861, Akimovichi, Bessarabia - 1936, Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli politician and mayor of Tel Aviv. ... Shlomo Lahat (also known as Tchitch) was the 8th mayor of Tel Aviv in Israel. ... Roni Milo (born 1949) is an Israeli politician who has held several ministerial positions and was mayor of Tel Aviv. ... Ron Huldai was first elected Mayor of Tel Aviv-Jaffa in 1998. ...

Sister cities

Footnotes

Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה) is a state organization for the creation and maintenance of numeric data related to populations vis-à-vis the ethnic makeup of Israel and its cities. ... Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה) is a state organization for the creation and maintenance of numeric data related to populations vis-à-vis the ethnic makeup of Israel and its cities. ... The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is one of Israels oldest, largest, and most important institutes of higher learning and research. ... The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is one of Israels oldest, largest, and most important institutes of higher learning and research. ... The Newsweek logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally. ...

See also

• White City, Tel Aviv
• Eretz Israel Museum

The White City is the name given to Tel Aviv, Israel, because of the large number of white, or light-colored buildings built there between the 1920s and the 1950s in the Bauhaus or International style. ... The Eretz Israel Museum was established in 1953 in Ramat Aviv. ...

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• Tel Aviv University
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• Ben Gurion International Airport
• Dov Hoz Airport (Sde Dov)
• Dan Bus Company
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• Dizengoff Street Web Guide
• UNESCO - World Heritage
• Unesco celebrates Tel Aviv, BBC News
• Tel Aviv Insider Tour Travel Guide
• City Guide Tel AvivAn essential guide for cosmopolitan travelers, published in August 2006. Available on Amazon and at Israeli bookshops.
• Photo Gallery of the city
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