Tel Aviv: history in facts. Government offices in Tel Aviv

Helpful information for tourists about Tel Aviv in Israel - geographical position, tourist infrastructure, map, architectural features and attractions.

Tel Aviv is the economic capital of Israel, the second largest city in the country; situated on east coast Mediterranean Sea.

Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and soon became a reception center for Jews arriving in Palestine. At first these were mainly immigrants from Russia and Poland. With the Nazis coming to power in Germany, immigrants from Germany poured into Palestine, many of them settled in Tel Aviv. This was reflected in the face of the city - architects of the German school worked here. In 1948, in Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion proclaimed the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel, of which Tel Aviv became the capital.

Since Jerusalem is not recognized as the capital of Israel, Tel Aviv hosts embassies of almost all states that have diplomatic relations with Israel, as well as offices of many ministries and other government agencies.

There are no ancient sights in Tel Aviv - it is a very young city. But there are oyster bars, eclectic architecture, sun-drenched golden beaches, cutting-edge nightclubs, luxury boutiques, and samba on the beach on summer evenings.

Tel Aviv hotels are famous for their special restaurants; the best chefs in the country usually work at the hotels. The restaurant business in Tel Aviv is set at a high world level and you can easily see this for yourself. From time to time, restaurants organize special evenings dedicated to a certain national cuisine, for which the necessary products are ordered and delivered by plane from abroad, as well as artists who will accompany the meal with appropriate music and dancing.

It is a great pleasure to walk along the seaside boulevard, the main promenade of the city, which stretches for several kilometers from the northern part of the city to Jaffa. Jaffa itself with the artists' quarter, wonderful fish restaurants, flea market and nightclubs will enchant and fascinate the most experienced traveler.

Tel Aviv is the undisputed cultural capital of Israel - it has several dozen concert and theater halls, numerous museums and galleries. The city has three repertory theaters (Habima, Gesher, Chamber Theatre), several ballet ensembles, and many rock and jazz groups performing on small stages.

Concerts, plays and performances are held in numerous concert halls, including the Palace of Culture named after. Mann, Center for the Performing Arts. Golda Meir, Suzanne Dallal Center, Tsavta Theater.

32.083333 , 34.8 32°05′00″ n. w. /  34°48′00″ E. d. 32.083333° s. w.

34.8° east d.

(G) (O)

Territory of the city and its topography

Tel Aviv from a bird's eye view. Photo by A. Ohayon. State Press Bureau. Israel. Tel Aviv-Jaffa is located in the center of the country's coastal strip. Dimensions of the city: along the sea - 13.5 km, from the sea to the eastern outskirts - from 3 to 6 km. The soil of Tel Aviv-Jaffa is composed mainly of ridges of marl (kurkar), partly covered with red sand (khamra); the ridges create cliffs near the coast, the highest of which is 25–30 m (the site of the former Arab village of Sheikh Muannis / Munis /; area of ​​Tel Aviv University). The Yarkon River (in north central Tel Aviv-Jaffa) crosses the city from east to west and flows into the sea; river width - 35–40 m, depth - 3–4 m. Dries up in

summer time

The Ayalon stream, originating in a valley near the Judean Mountains, cuts through the city in its eastern part from south to north and flows into the Yarkon 2.4 km from its mouth. Many of Tel Aviv-Jaffa's large streets parallel the sea coast, Yarkon and Ayalon.

Megapolis

Tel Aviv-Jaffa borders a number of cities, actually merging with them (Herzliya from the north, Bat Yam from the south, Holon from the southeast, Ramat Gan and Givatayim from the east).

Bnei Brak and Petah Tikva adjoin the latter from the east. The total population of the so-called inner ring of the megalopolis is approaching one million (978 thousand people - early 2003). It is generally accepted that the outer ring includes Kfar Shmaryahu, Ramat Hasharon, Ganei Tikva, Givat Shmuel, Kiryat Ono, Savion, Or Yehuda, Holon, Rishon Lezion, Yehud; The total population of the metropolis significantly exceeds one million people.

Members of the Yishuv delegation (from left to right: H. Bograshov, M. Dizengoff, B. Mosinzon), who appealed to the Turkish military governor Dzhemal Pasha with a petition to cancel the expulsion of Jews - foreign citizens - from Jaffa and Tel Aviv. 1915 Israel State Archives.

Jaffa - ancient city and perhaps the world's oldest port. At the time of the founding of Tel Aviv-Jaffa (1909), 40,000 people lived in Jaffa, including 6,000 Jews, who founded the Jewish neighborhoods of Neve Tzedek (1887) and Neve Shalom (1890).

Tel Aviv's first public building (Source: all-israel.livejournal.com)

In 1906, the Ahuzat Bayt Society was created, with the goal of establishing an “urban-type Jewish center” along the Jaffa-Jerusalem railway line north of Neve Tzedek. The society was headed by Akiva A. Weiss (1868–1947).

The name Ahuzat Bayt did not last long: already in 1910, after the publication of Herzl’s book “Altneuland”, translated into Hebrew under the name “Tel Aviv”, which means “hill of spring” or “hill of new shoots”. The name Tel Aviv echoes the name of the city mentioned in the Bible (Eh. 3:15): this was the name of the Jewish settlement in Babylonia. The district and, accordingly, the city were renamed to the same name.

Tel Aviv at the time of its founding was divided into several quarters: in the east, Nachalat Binyamin and Merkaz Baalei Mlaha, in the north - Hevra Hadasha (now Allenby Street) and Geula - the first quarter of Tel Aviv, facing the sea. By 1914, Tel Aviv's area exceeded 100 hectares and its population exceeded 2,000 people; in the city there were 112 one-story and 70 two-story houses (1,424 rooms in total).

Templer House in the former settlement of Sarona, Tel Aviv.

It was here that the first boulevard appeared, on which all the famous Jews of that time lived, and where the famous Herzliya Gymnasium, named after Theodor Herzl, was located. The boulevard is named after Baron Benjamin Edmond de Rothschild.

The center of public and commercial life gradually shifted to the north and northeast of the city (Ben Yehuda, Dizengoff streets intersect Zina Dizengoff and Ibn Gvirol Square, where a new city council building was built). A number of hotels sprang up along the seashore.

In the late 1960s - early 1970s. The construction of a residential area under the Lamed project began on sandy soil, in the area from the Yarkon River north to Herzliya. Between it and the sea is the Sde-Dov airfield. Other housing construction zones arose in the north, east and southeast (Tel Kabir, Givat HaTmarim, Neve Afeka, Neve Sharet and others). Two new industrial zones were also created. The HaYarkon Park (on the northern bank of the Yarkon) was supplemented by parks in the area of ​​the Lamed project (see above) and the HaHistadrut Park in the south.

In the 1980s The Lev-Dizengoff complex (shops, restaurants, cinemas) was opened in the city center. The huge seven-story building of the new central bus station, housing many shops, cafes, etc., was opened in 1993. In the 1990s, a significant number of high-rise buildings (administrative, business, residential, hotels, shopping centers, including famous towers Azrieli).

Azieli center and railway station in the summer of 2000.

A square in northern Tel Aviv, 2010.

The Netivei-Ayalon Expressway (which runs along the Ayalon Stream, see above) is being expanded and improved. Runs parallel to the motorway railway line(three stops inside the city).

During the war in Persian Gulf(early 1991) Tel Aviv and its surrounding cities came under fire from Iraqi rockets. Many buildings were damaged, but relatively few people were injured.

Current state of Tel Aviv

Summer morning at the central bus station in Tel Aviv, August 2015.

Flowering tree in Tel Aviv. Spring 2019. Photo by Elena Gromova.

Minibus taxi in Tel Aviv.

Tel Aviv-Jaffa is the economic, commercial, financial and socio-political center of the country. It houses the central branches and representative offices of the main industrial, commercial and banking institutions of Israel, the headquarters of Israeli political parties and youth movements, national organizations and associations (House of B'nai B'rith, House of Engineer, House of Farmer, House of Teacher, House of Doctor, House of Writer named after Sh. Chernikhovsky, House of Journalists named after N. Sokolov, House of Maccabi, House of Hapoel Ha-Mizrachi, etc.), trade unions, most periodicals, as well as embassies and other diplomatic missions (due to refusal Most states recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel).

Some of the ministries are located in the government town (Ha-Kirya). Tel Aviv-Jaffa is the center of cultural and scientific life: it is home to one of the largest universities - Tel Aviv University, most of the country's theaters, including Habima and Kameri, Gesher, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra , Israeli Opera, numerous museums:

  • Museum of Art in Tel Aviv,
  • Eretz Israel Museum (a complex that includes Archaeological Museum in Jaffa; Tel Aviv-Jaffa History Museum; pavilions of glass, coins, ceramics, ethnographic exhibition; permanent exhibition dedicated to the development of science and technology; Alphabet Museum; Beit Nekhushtan - an exhibition of archaeological finds from the Timna copper mines near the Red Sea);
  • Museum of the Diaspora (Beit Ha-tfutsot);
  • Israel Armed Forces Museum (Beit Hagana);
  • Irgun Tsvai Leumi Museum;
  • Museum of Journalism named after A. Remba and others;
  • art galleries;

libraries and archives:

  • Shaar Zion City Library - Beit Ariella;
  • House-Museum of H. N. Bialik - library and archive of the poet;
  • Beit Levanon - a collection of Jewish periodicals from the beginning of the Jewish press;
  • P. Lavon Institute - library and archives of the labor movement;
  • Metsudat-Ze'ev - V. E. Jabotinsky Museum and archive of the Zionist Revisionist movement, Beitar, Herut, Etzel and Lehi;
  • Beit Micha Yosef - library and archive of the writer M.I. Berdichevsky;
  • gyms (see "Maccabi"), etc.

Tel Aviv City Hall, December 2016. Photo by Vadim Bugaenko.

Since the early 1990s, the Shevach Mofet interregional school has operated in Tel Aviv, organized with the participation of Ze'ev Geisel and Yaakov Mozganov. It enjoys a reputation as a “factory of geniuses” due to the fact that teachers from physics and mathematics schools of the former USSR gathered there and established the teaching of mathematics and natural sciences using the methods familiar to them. Some TsALAL units who are interested in soldiers well trained in these areas cooperate with the school. All school graduates receive a matriculation certificate (which is not typical for the country as a whole).

But during further negotiations between the Tel Aviv municipality and the Amal educational organization, it was decided to move the school to Lod. which is tantamount to its liquidation.

In "Greater Tel Aviv" at the beginning of the 21st century, work was carried out to reconstruct the housing stock, buildings, communications and environmental facilities.

In the Azrieli business center, a third tower (with a square cross-section) was built and a fourth is planned.

Tel Aviv–Jaffa is a united city municipality in Israel on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, the most important economic, financial, commercial and cultural center of the country.

Tel Aviv-Jaffa, a modern city stretching 15 km along the Mediterranean coast and 10 km inland, is the second most populous city in Israel.

The UN recognizes Tel Aviv-Jaffa as the capital of Israel. It houses enterprise administrations and foreign embassies, trading firms and banks, editorial offices of newspapers and magazines, and publishing houses.

Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 on a plot of land of 12 hectares as a northern suburb of the port city (one of the oldest cities in the world), received city status in 1934, and in 1949 merged with Jaffa.

Population

The population of Tel Aviv-Jaffa is 404.4 thousand people (2010), it is the second (after Jerusalem) largest city in the country. National and religious composition: 96.1% are Jews, 3.0% are Muslim Arabs and 0.9% are Christian Arabs.

With its suburbs, this urban agglomeration, which has the name, is home to, according to various estimates, from 1.25 to 2 million people.

Government agencies

The Ministry of Defense is located in Tel Aviv, as well as the General Staff.

Transport

Tel Aviv is the most important transport hub Israel, the main interchange point for all Israeli lines railways and bus companies.

Rail transport - Tel Aviv is the center of Israel's railway system. The highway runs along the eastern border of the city from north to south. From four railway stations in the city (Tel Aviv - University, Tel Aviv - Center, Tel Aviv - HaShalom, Tel Aviv - HaHagana), trains travel south (Ashdod, Ashkelon, Beer Sheva ), to Jerusalem, Petah Tikva and Rishon LeZion. Trains run 24 hours a day to the north (Haifa, Nahariya) as well as to David Ben-Gurion Airport and Modiin.


Bus transport - urban transport in Tel Aviv is provided by the Dan cooperative, and there are also city lines of the Egged and Kavim companies connecting Tel Aviv with the nearest suburbs. Intercity transportation is carried out by the Egged company from two bus terminals - the Arlozorov station in the northern part of the city (near the Tel Aviv Center railway station) and the central bus station in the southern part of the city (today it is the largest bus station in the world [source not 631 days are indicated]).

Metro - work is underway to lay the first light metro line along the route Bat Yam - Jaffa - Tel Aviv - Ramat Gan - Bnei Brak - Petah Tikva. The line is planned to open by 2013.

Air connections - David Ben-Gurion Airport is located 10 km from Tel Aviv, near the suburb of Lod, and is the main air gateway to Israel. Within the city there is also a city airport named after. Dova Khoza (“Sde Dov”), serving intra-Israeli civilian flights to Eilat, Rosh Pinna, Kiryat Shmona and Ein Yahav, as well as military transport flights to Israeli Air Force air bases.

Road transport - many pass through Tel Aviv car roads, the most important of which is the Ayalon Highway (Highway No. 20), passing through eastern part the city from north to south along the bed of the river of the same name and having 7 interchanges within the city. The largest arterial streets are the Namir Highway (going north to Highway No. 2 leading to Haifa), the Menachem Begin Highway (east to Ramat Gan, Bnei Brak and Petah Tikva) and some others. With an influx of half a million cars every day, Tel Aviv suffers from traffic oversaturation.

Healthcare

Meir Medical Center was founded in 1956 and named after Dr. Yosef Meir, Minister of Health of the State of Israel. To this day, it is one of the largest Medical Centers in Israel.

Medical Center named after. Soraski is located in the city center, and is the main city hospital of Tel Aviv. It includes the Ichilov city hospital, the Dana pediatric hospital, the Liss maternity hospital and a rehabilitation center.

Assuta Hospital in northern Tel Aviv is the largest private hospital in Israel and primarily performs elective surgical procedures.

Video (in English): Guide to Tel Aviv

There are also additional medical centers and hospitals near Tel Aviv - the Medical Center named after. Rabin Hospital in Petah Tikva, Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer, Wolfson Hospital in Holon, Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba and Asaf HaRofeh Medical Center in Tzrifin.

Routine outpatient treatment is provided by city clinics belonging to one of Israel's four health insurance funds - Clalit, Meuhedet, Maccabi and Leumit.

Culture and art

Tel Aviv is one of the most important cultural centers in Israel - it has several dozen concert and theater halls, numerous museums and galleries. The city has three repertory theaters (Habima, Gesher, Chamber Theatre), several ballet ensembles (Israeli Ballet, Bat Sheva, Bat Dor, etc.), and many rock and jazz groups performing on small stages .

Tel Aviv Museum fine arts and the Eretz Israel Museum are the most famous of several dozen Tel Aviv museums. Concerts, plays and performances are held in numerous concert halls, including the Palace of Culture named after. Mann, Center for the Performing Arts. Golda Meir, Suzanne Dallal Center, Tsavta Theater and Zionist House of America.

Israel District Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai History and geography Based 1909 Square OK. 70 km² Height above sea level 5 ± 1 m Timezone UTC+2, in summer UTC+3 Population Population 432,892 people (2016) Density 7947 people/km² National composition Jews - 91.6%, Arabs - 3.9%, others - 4.5% Digital IDs Telephone code +(972)(3) outside Israel, (03) inside Israel Postcode 61000–61999 tel-aviv.gov.il
(Hebrew) (English) (Aryan)

Tel Aviv-Yafo(Hebrew) תֵּל אָבִיב-יָפוֹ ‏‎ - Tel Aviv - Yafo; Also Tel Aviv; Arab. تل أبيب ‎) is a unified urban municipality on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, the second largest in Israel by population (432,892 people in 2016), the economic and cultural center of the country. It was formed in April 1950 by the merger of the relatively young city of Tel Aviv with the ancient city. Tel Aviv was originally founded as a Jewish suburb of Jaffa. Located 65 km west of the capital of Israel -.

Population

According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, the population as of 2016 is 432,892.

Tel Aviv is the second (after) largest city in the country, but is ahead of it in the ranking of global cities. With its suburbs, this urban agglomeration, called “Gush Dan” (Hebrew: גוש דן‏‎), is home to about 3.5 million people, 91.6% are Jews, 3.0% are Muslim Arabs and 0. 9% are Christian Arabs; 4.5% - includes all other categories of residents. Gush Dan, in addition to Tel Aviv, includes cities and a number of villages. Around Gush Dan there is also the following ring of almost continuous urban development, formed by the fused cities of Kiryat Ono, Yehud Monosson, with a number of smaller settlements.

Story

The city was founded in 1909 as a new Jewish quarter and was called Ahuzat Bayit. On the territory of Tel Aviv there are the ruins of the ancient Philistine settlement of Tel Kasila.

In 1910, the prominent Zionist figure Menachem Sheinkin proposed the name of the quarter as the name of the first translation into Hebrew of the utopian novel by the founder of Zionism Theodor Herzl “Altneuland” (“Altneuland” - “Old new country"), made by Nahum Sokolov. On May 21, 1910, at a general meeting of residents of the Ahuzat-Bayit quarter, a new name was chosen by a majority vote - Tel Aviv.

The name "Tel Aviv" is found in the Tanakh (Ezek. 3:15) and is translated from Hebrew as "mound of rebirth" or "hill of spring": "tel"(Hebrew תל ‏‎) - a mound or hill symbolizing antiquity, "Aviv"(Hebrew אביב ‏‎) - spring, rebirth, renewal.

Soon a city grew from the quarter, becoming a center for receiving Jews arriving in Mandatory Palestine. At first these were mainly people from and. With the Nazis coming to power in Germany, immigrants from Germany poured into Palestine, many of them settled in Tel Aviv. This was reflected in the face of the city. Architects from the German Bauhaus school worked on the development of Tel Aviv in the 1930s; houses were built with 2-3 floors, concrete, streets strictly perpendicular or parallel to the coast. The main goal construction was the creation of inexpensive mass housing. The houses of those times are today architectural monument, and thanks to them, Tel Aviv is included in the UNESCO list of cultural properties under the name “White City”.

The city grew rapidly and became the de facto center of the Jewish community of Palestine. In 1948 in Tel Aviv, in the house of the first mayor of the city, Meir Dizengoff, on Rothschild Boulevard, the People's Council led by David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the formation of the independent State of Israel.

The Knesset (Israeli parliament), initially called the “Constituent Assembly,” met for the first time in Tel Aviv. The first meetings took place in the Tel Aviv Museum, when the latter was still located in the Dizengoff House on Rothschild Boulevard. From March 8 to December 14, 1949, meetings were held in the Tel Aviv Kesem cinema, located on Knesset Square ( Kikar HaKnesset) between HaYarkon Street and the Tel Aviv embankment, in the place where an office and residential complex with the Migdal HaOpera shopping and entertainment center was built in 1993. Knesset meetings were also held at the San Remo Hotel, located in Tel Aviv. On December 26, 1949, the Israeli parliament moved to.

In April 1950, young Tel Aviv and ancient Jaffa were united into a new administrative entity - . Tel Aviv became the economic center of the country, gradually merging with surrounding cities. Currently, the entire Mediterranean coast north of Tel Aviv for 50 km (up to) is a continuous urban development. The coast south of Tel Aviv is also a continuous urban development, which is first called Jaffa, then and beyond.

Views of Tel Aviv (video from Channel 2 of Israeli TV)

Tel Aviv is the most eclectic of Israeli cities. Modern skyscrapers along the Ayalon highway coexist with one- or two-story buildings of the first half of the 20th century in the Neve Tzedek area, wealthy areas of northern Tel Aviv with the slums of the old Tahana Merkazit (city bus station), hotels and pubs on the Mediterranean seafront with business offices and technology centers. In the summer of 2008, the newspaper "The New York Times" proclaimed Tel Aviv “capital of the Mediterranean cool”.

Tel Aviv stretches along the Mediterranean coast for 13.5 km, the maximum distance from the sea in the north and south is up to 7 km, in the center - up to 3.5 km.

After the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 478, almost all foreign embassies located there moved from Tel Aviv.

Tel Aviv is home to the most important scientific and cultural institutions: the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Museum of the Diaspora, the H. N. Bialik House Museum and many others.

Climate

The climate is Mediterranean. Winter is warm and rainy ( average temperature January is the coldest month - +13.3 °C). Snow is extremely rare, with the last snowfall occurring in February 1950. Summer is long and hot. The warmest month is August. Its average temperature is +27.0 °C, but periods of extreme heat are more typical in spring, when temperatures can reach +45 °C in the shade and above. Precipitation occurs mainly from November to March.

Tel Aviv Climate
Index Jan. Feb. March Apr. May June July Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Year
Absolute maximum, °C 26,8 29,6 35,2 40,4 46,5 37,6 37,4 34,4 35,4 38,4 35,3 27,9 46,5
Average maximum, °C 17,5 17,7 19,2 22,8 24,9 27,5 29,4 30,2 29,4 27,3 23,4 19,2 24,04
Average temperature, °C 13,0 13,8 15,4 18,6 21,1 24,1 26,2 27,0 26,0 23,2 19,0 15,2 20,3
Average minimum, °C 9,6 9,8 11,5 14,4 17,3 20,6 23,0 23,7 22,5 19,1 14,6 11,2 16,44
Absolute minimum, °C 2,5 −1,9 3,5 7,0 11,2 15 19 20 15,7 11,6 6,0 4,0 −1,9
Precipitation rate, mm 126,9 90,1 60,6 18,0 2,3 0,0 0,0 0,7 1,4 26,3 79,3 126,4 532
Water temperature, °C 18 18 17 20 21 25 28 28 28 25 23 20 23
Source:

Tel Aviv beach (panorama)

Government offices in Tel Aviv

The Ministry of Defense is located in Tel Aviv, as well as the General Staff.

Transport

Automatic bicycle rental station

Bus station in Tel Aviv (1949)

Tel Aviv is Israel's most important transport hub, the main transfer point for all lines of Israeli railways and bus companies.

  • Railway transport- Tel Aviv is the center of the Israeli railway system. The highway runs along the eastern border of the city from north to south. From four railway stations in the city (Tel Aviv - University, Tel Aviv - Center, Tel Aviv - HaShalom, Tel Aviv - HaHagana), trains travel south (,), to, and. Trains run 24 hours a day to the north (,) as well as to David Ben-Gurion Airport and to the south in .
  • Bus transport- urban transport in Tel Aviv is provided by the Dan cooperative, and there are also city lines of the Egged and Kavim companies connecting Tel Aviv with the nearest suburbs. Intercity transportation is carried out by Egged from two bus terminals - Arlozorov station in the northern part of the city (near the Tel Aviv Center railway station) and the central bus station in the southern part of the city (the second largest bus station in the world).
  • Tel Aviv Light Rail Transit System- work is underway to lay the first line of the Light Rail transport system Tel Aviv, sometimes mistakenly called the “light metro” in everyday life, along the route - - Tel Aviv - - -. The line is scheduled to open by 2021.
  • Air service- David Ben-Gurion Airport is located 23 km from Tel Aviv, in the suburbs, and is the main air gateway to Israel. Within the city there is also a city airport named after. Dova Khoza (“Sde Dov”), serving intra-Israeli civilian flights to, Rosh Pinna, Kiryat Shmona and Ein Yahav, as well as military transport flights to Israeli Air Force air bases.
  • Automobile transport- many highways pass through Tel Aviv, the most important of which is the Ayalon highway (highway No. 20), passing through the eastern part of the city from north to south along the bed of the river of the same name and having 7 interchanges in the city. The largest arterial streets are the Namir Highway (runs north to Highway No. 2 leading to), Menachem Begin Highway (east to, and) and some others. With an influx of half a million cars every day, Tel Aviv suffers from traffic oversaturation.
  • Automatic bicycle rental network "Tel-Ofan"

Healthcare

New building of the Assuta Hospital in Ramat HaHayal

  • The Sourasky Medical Center is located in the city center and is the main city hospital in Tel Aviv. It includes the Ikhilov city hospital, the Dana pediatric hospital, the Lis maternity hospital, and the buildings of the rehabilitation and cardiology centers.
  • Assuta Hospital in northern Tel Aviv is the largest private hospital in Israel and primarily performs elective surgical procedures.
  • There are also additional medical centers and hospitals near Tel Aviv - Yitzhak Rabin Medical Center in, Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Edith Wolfson Medical Center in, Meir Medical Center in and the Asaf HaRofe Medical Center in Be'er Yaakov.
  • Routine outpatient treatment is provided by city clinics belonging to one of Israel's four health insurance funds - Clalit, Meuhedet, Maccabi and Leumit.

Culture and art

Bauhaus Museum.

Tel Aviv is the birthplace of modern Hebrew and the main center of modern Hebrew culture. Most of Israel's theaters are based here. Most of the editorial offices of Hebrew daily newspapers, except those serving a religious audience, are located in Tel Aviv (Ha'Aretz, Ma'ariv, Yediot Ahronot, economic newspapers Kalkalist and The Marker, free daily Israel Hayom ").

Tel Aviv has several dozen concert and theater halls, numerous museums and galleries. The city has repertory theaters (Habima, Gesher, Chamber Theater, Beit Lesin Theater, Yiddish Theater Yiddishpil), Israeli Opera, several ballet ensembles (Israeli Ballet, Bat Sheva, Bat Dor, etc. .), many rock and jazz bands performing on small stages.

Tel Aviv has an extensive network of city public libraries (more than twenty). The Tel Aviv Central Library, Beit Ariela, founded in 1886, is the oldest library in Israel, its book collections number more than half a million copies. Use of the library is free for city residents.

art

Tel Aviv's first master plan. Architect Patrick Geddes, 1925

The Tel Aviv Museum of Fine Arts is the most famous of several dozen Tel Aviv museums. Concerts, plays and performances are held in numerous concert halls, including the Palace of Culture named after. Mann, Center for the Performing Arts. Golda Meir, Suzanne Dallal Center, Tsavta Theater and Zionist House of America. In addition, on the streets of Tel Aviv you can find a lot of wonderful graffiti by both Israeli and foreign artists.

Architecture

One of the interesting buildings in Tel Aviv is the Pagoda House, built in 1925 according to the design of Alexander Levy. Tel Aviv is also a city of massive Bauhaus-style housing developments.

Religious institutions

In the city there is the courtyard of the “Righteous Tabitha” of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem, on the territory of which the Orthodox Church of the Apostle Peter is located. In addition to a significant number of synagogues, there are several mosques, and there are also Catholic, Protestant and Armenian churches in Jaffa and southern Tel Aviv.

Science and technology

The city is home to many scientific and technological centers and companies working in the field of high technology. Among them are companies such as Google, Microsoft and Teva. The city is home to the Tel Aviv Fair Center (Hebrew) מרכז הירידים והקונגרסים ‏‎), where major technology exhibitions are held.

Partner cities

The data is given according to the Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Hall website as of November 2017:

City A country Type of partnership Since the year
sister city 1999
agreement of friendship and cooperation 1998 (updated 2013)
cooperation agreement 1990
cooperation agreement 1983
cooperation agreement 1989
sister city 1988
cooperation agreement 1992 (expanded 2009)
economic cooperation agreement 2005
Provinces "> Memorandum of understanding 2014
sister city 1996
sister city 2000
2012
friendship agreement 1993
cooperation agreement 1979
sister city 2000
cooperation agreement 1994
Italy sister city 1994
friendly relations agreement 2016
cooperation agreement 2001
Memorandum of understanding 2014
1996
Panama friendly relations agreement 2013
cooperation agreement 1985 (expanded 2010)
"> agreement of mutual understanding, friendship and cooperation 1995 (expanded in 2006 and 2014)
sister city 1994
friendly relations agreement 2011
cooperation agreement 2011
sister city 1992
sister city 1962
sister city 1967
Freiburg im Breisgau cooperation agreement 2015 (memorandum of understanding since 2012)
cooperation agreement 1980
">
- a city on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, 63 km from Jerusalem. The population is about 379,500 people, it is the second (after Jerusalem) largest city in the country.
founded as a suburb of the port city of Jaffa

Amazing city Israel.
If Jerusalem is considered the soul Israel, then this is its heart - working and full of life 24 hours a day: a business, noisy, dynamic, cosmopolitan industrial and cultural center of the country.

The business part of the city (Photo) is built up with multi-storey office buildings of Israeli and leading companies in the world, among them the buildings of the world famous diamond center, as well as large shops, such as the Dizingoff Center or the Azrieli Shopping Center. This extraordinary city has many advantages modern city, as well as unique charm and delights resort town - , literally created for walking and traveling. In numerous art galleries and folk art centers you can see magnificent works of local and foreign artists and craftsmen.

A little history:
In 1950, young and ancient Jaffa were merged into a new administrative entity
Tel Aviv - Jaffa (Photo)
, and since then the boundaries of this city have not changed. And it was like this:
V In 1906, a group of Jews from Jaffa, merchants, teachers, and representatives of the liberal professions, organized the Ahuzat-Bayit society and acquired a plot of 120 dunams (12 hectares) north of Jaffa.

The population of Jaffa was then about 40 thousand people, among them were 6 thousand Jews who felt the need to go beyond the close confines of the old city. In 1909, the cornerstone of the first buildings was laid, among which was the building of the future Terzliya gymnasium - the first gymnasium in the world where teaching was conducted in Hebrew.
In 1910 the Jewish quarter received the name Tel Aviv - "Hill of Spring" , after the title of Theodor Herzl’s book “Altneuland” (translation into Hebrew by Nahum Sokolov). The development of the city was interrupted during the First World War, when foreigners began to leave the country, and the remaining residents were persecuted by the Turkish authorities.

In 1917, the Turks expelled almost its entire population, who returned to their homes only after the British occupied the country. From this time on, a new round in the development of the city began.

As a result of the outbreak of Arab riots in 1921, it was temporarily separated from Jaffa (many Jaffa Jews fled to Tel Aviv) and received the status of a city, with its own municipality, police and court.

In 1922, the Jewish quarters of Jaffa were annexed, including Neve Tzedek and Neve Shalom. The city's population reached 15 thousand people.

The city grew and turned into the capital. Formed as a suburb of Jaffa in 1909, now the second largest city Israel- after Jerusalem.

Financial and commercial center of the country.
Today, more than 1 million people live in this metropolis. The central offices of the country's largest banks and companies, as well as representative offices of foreign states and firms, are located here.

The headquarters of the main industrial and financial concerns and political parties are located here.

Tel Aviv yacht clubs (marinas) (Photo)- some of the most comfortable in the Mediterranean. If you want to see another, somewhat unexpected perspective of Israel, we recommend that you move from the Holy Land to the sea. That is, go on an exciting cruise on modern comfortable yachts of the Yam Sailing club.

You can treat yourself to a mini-cruise off the coast of Israel or choose any of the Mediterranean countries and a professional crew will organize it for you unforgettable journey, full of romance and positive emotions..

At the yacht club you can rent equipment for windsurfing, diving or any other active type recreation. Many sports facilities are concentrated along Rokah Boulevard.

An unforgettable vacation awaits you.
But in order to fully appreciate the beauty of the Mediterranean Sea, admire the smooth lines of the coast from afar and sit on the coast of a picturesque island, you should go on a yacht trip.
A boat trip is an opportunity to fully experience all the charm of sea romance.

translates as “hill of spring”, and it is also called “the city without interruption”, given the frantic pace of its life.Nightlife is no less varied and eventful than daytime: Standing out from other Israeli cities for its midnight lifestyle, it is also nicknamed “the city that never sleeps.”
Restaurants, cafes, bars, pubs, as well as nightclubs for every taste, both on the embankment and in the center of the city itself, are open at any time of the day, even on traditional weekends, from Friday evening to Saturday evening.Here you can try drinks and dishes from a variety of cuisines, as well as listen to live music: jazz, rock or oriental motifs.

It is also a city of culture; there are museums here, world-famous theaters such as Habima, Kameri, Yiddishpil and Gesher, whose troupe consists of repatriates from Russia in the 80s of the twentieth century, and also Israeli opera and ballet.

But there is no “break” not only in entertainment and leisure, but also in business, production and development. This major center textile and food industries, construction and transport enterprises, enterprises in the electronic and electrical industry and printing.

Israel Diamond Exchange in Tel Aviv (Photo) - an association of diamond manufacturers and businessmen working in the diamond industry, located in a complex of four buildings in Ramat Gan (a suburb of Tel Aviv, Israel ), which combines a trading floor, offices of diamond manufacturers, diamond processing plants, jewelry stores and exhibition halls, the Harry Oppenheimer Diamond Museum, banks, post offices, customs control, medical center, places of worship and restaurants.

Today, there is no other diamond center in the world that could realize the concept of “everything under one roof” to such an extent.

Israel is a world leader in the development of diamond processing and polishing technologies.
That is why factories engaged in polishing diamonds are equipped with the most advanced and high-quality equipment and are known throughout the world.

Modern technologies combined with a staff of highly qualified specialists make Israel an active player in the international diamond market.

founded as a suburb of the port city of Jaffa in 1909.

Surrounded by thousands of years of legends, Jaffa remains an integral part of Tel Aviv. Mentioned in many historical sources even before our era, one of the oldest ports in the world, today Jaffa retains the spirit of the past.

In the Old Part of Jaffa, many monuments of the medieval period, crusader buildings and mosques, monasteries and the ruins of an ancient synagogue have been preserved.
Along the streets bearing the names of the zodiac signs, there are restaurants, galleries and artists' studios.

The embankment of old Jaffa (Photo) with its famous fish restaurants smoothly turns into an embankment with a string of comfortable modern hotels and small bars and pubs located right on the sandy coast.

Yafo, adjacent to , - one of the most ancient cities in the world and the oldest port city Israel(Photo).

Streets and ancient buildings Yafo built of white stone and bear the names of the zodiac signs - so that everyone can find “their own street” and, according to legend, make a wish there.

Old part the city was reconstructed and became tourist center. There are many art salons, workshops, and shops selling various souvenirs here. The ancient streets are colorful, and wandering through them is a real pleasure.

On the territory of the ancient Yafo There are historical buildings and archaeological sites, churches and mosques, art galleries and museums.

Jaffa– one of the main ancient ports of Israel and the whole world. The famous Sea Route connecting Egypt, Syria, Anatolia and Mesopotamia passed through it.

Jaffa - The city is mentioned in all biblical sources, in ancient Greek and ancient Egyptian legends.
a pre-biblical port with a history stretching back four thousand years and through which the Prophet Jonah, St. Peter, Richard the Lionheart and Napoleon passed through, to name but a few historical heroes from a long, long list.It was from here that the prophet Jonah was supposed to set off with sermons to the pagans in Nineveh, but getting scared, he decided to sail on a ship in the opposite direction. A storm broke out at sea, Jonah was thrown overboard, and then a huge fish swallowed him.
(Photo: “Whale Smile” sculpture.)
Absolutely cartoonishly cute creature, isn't it?
After spending three days in her womb, deeply repenting of his unbelief, the prophet was thrown ashore alive and unharmed. Then he went to Nineveh, and after his sermons the inhabitants realized the wickedness in which they lived, deeply repented, and the city did not suffer the fate of destruction.

If, while walking through Old Jaffa, you wander onto the street. Mazal Dagim, don’t turn off, go a little further, straight through the arch of the house to the street. Mazal Arie. There you will see an orange tree floating in the air.

Where does it come from? What a strange composition?

After the formation of the State of Israel in 1948, the main source of income for the young state was the export of citrus fruits. Israeli oranges were especially popular Jaffa or Shamauti.

They were bred in Palestine by Arab farmers in the mid-19th century. The new variety turned out to be juicy, almost seedless. The taste was delicate and was described as "excellent" and "sweet and subtle".

Exports of oranges increased sharply from 200 thousand in 1845 to 38 million in 1870. Exports were mainly carried out through the port of Jaffa.

The Jaffa brand first appeared in 1871. In 1939, Arab and Jewish orange plantations in Palestine amounted to 300 square meters. km. More than 100 thousand workers worked for them.

Sculpture:
The orange tree is a symbol of Jaffa, its business card.
Some call Tel Aviv-Jaffa the "Big Orange", similar to New York's nickname "The Big Apple".


Old Jaffa is a favorite place for artists. This is confirmed by numerous sculptures on the streets.

The floating orange tree is a real tree planted in a pot shaped like a clay egg and attached by cables to neighboring houses so that it hangs in the air.

The sculpture by Rene Morin, despite the unusualness of its artistic design, fits perfectly into the architectural environment of Jaffa and is its highlight.

Legend:
Tourists are often told the legend about the floating orange tree.

Some kind of local planted an orange tree in the ground, municipal officials came and forced it to be cut down, this happened several times.

By law it is prohibited to plant trees on municipal land. He took and hung the tree so as not to touch the ground. The lawyers were powerless.

One way or another, the floating tree delights Jaffa residents and tourists to this day.

is the most important center of Israeli tourism. It is ideal for study tours, vacations, city outings, incentive tours, congresses, conventions and meetings of any size.

It accommodates a variety of entertainment 24 hours a day and is located fairly close to anywhere in the country: llovers of adventure and travel will be able to experience in one day what the Israeli leisure industry is at its best and fully enjoy nightlife and the culinary joys of the big city.

Ranked third in the list of ten best cities world according to the Lonely Planet guide. New York took first place, followed by Tangier, the press service of the Ministry of Tourism clarified. Israel in the Russian Federation and the CIS.

It became the core of the metropolis, which today stretches from Herzliya in the north to Rehovot in the south.
Hotels offer thousands of rooms of various levels, from simple rooms to suites.

The most luxurious hotels are located in the city center, usually on the coast and facing the sparkling azure expanses of the Mediterranean Sea; almost all of them belong to large international chains and or their equally professional Israeli counterparts. However, most Tel Aviv hotels are located near the center.

Since it occupies a leading position in Israeli commerce and business, in recent years all the leading hotels in the city have created special conditions, designed for their clients from among large businessmen, including business lounges and VIP floors.

The city offers a variety of quality three- and four-star hotels, many of which have recently been renovated and updated, and in addition, in the spirit of international trends in the hotel business, small themed hotels and boutique hotels are developing.

The construction of a promenade along the sea coast, from the Yarkon River in the north to the Old City, is being completed Jaffa in the south: it is planned to expand and improve it.

Over the course of several recent years huge amounts of money have been invested in tourism infrastructure thanks to which the city as a whole has been transformed into a first-class and constantly improving tourist destination.

New parks and tourist sites are being built.Cultural life is vibrant in this noisy, hectic city. The world famous Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra is located here.

The city has two universities: Tel Aviv and Bar Ilan, located nearby in Ramat Gan.The state was proclaimed in the Palace of Independence in 1948 Israel.

There is a whole shopping, entertainment and cultural complex “Migdal Opera” (Bate Opera, Opera Tower) on the embankment, the Azrieli Center skyscraper, Cinematheque, Israeli national theater"Habima", famous for its original architecture, the Tel Aviv Center (Museum) for the Performing Arts on Shaul HaMelech Boulevard, the picturesque Neve Tzedek and Dizengoff neighborhoods, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Migdal Opera – a multi-storey building, the first three floors of which are reserved for a prestigious shopping and entertainment center. There are galleries, cafes, and fashion stores here. The Golda Meir Center for the Performing Arts houses the Israeli Opera, concert halls, theater scenes.

The pubs and bars of Tel Aviv offer a wide variety of music: from ultra modern to Middle Eastern, from reggae to rock. Many pubs offer live music - jazz, blues (for example, in the Ha Kossit bar), popular modern Israeli music. Ethnic nightclubs host performances with a vibrant national flavor. After midnight, discos open in the waterfront area and in the port of Jaffa.

Sheinkin Street is home to the most popular bars and clubs. The best of them are Up and Tamar. On Rotschild Boulevard is the Dita bar, whose candlelit outdoor veranda has made it a favorite place for dates. Allenby 58 nightclub claims to be the best in the Middle East.

Those who love museums should visit the Tel Aviv Museum and the Diaspora Museum.
Of great interest are the Museum of Beit HaTfutsot (Diaspora, 1978) on the territory of Tel Aviv University, the Museum of Eretz Israel (Land of Israel) with an extensive collection of objects from the history of various cultures and a library, art Gallery Bruno Gallery, as well as the house-museum of the poet Chaim Nachman Bialik and David Ben-Gurion.

It is the absolute opposite of Jerusalem, representing a city of entertainment on the sea coast as opposed to the ancient holy city", said the publisher of popular guidebooks.

Earned the title of one of largest cities- parties in Forbes and Lonely Planet publications and included in the guide to European cities Louis Vuitton 2010.

Migdal Opera(Photo: building with pink side) – multi-storey building - one of the most prestigious and beautiful shopping and entertainment centers in Israel. Located in the center of Tel Aviv's waterfront, on the corner of Allenby and Hayarkon streets, facing the sea.

Picturesque building "Migdal Opera" (Photo) has three floors of a shopping and entertainment center, above them there are 18 floors of luxury residential apartments, a floor with a function hall, a swimming pool, a sauna and a gym.
Three underground floors are occupied by a parking lot.

Here you will find cafes and galleries selling art, fashion and jewelry stores, and one of the largest music centers Israel. Shopping: from souvenirs to wedding dresses.

"Migdal Opera" built on the site where the first Knesset, Israel's legislative body, worked from March to December 1949. Later, the first opera existed here.

Music lovers will find here a large center for the sale of discs and video cassettes with recordings of music from all eras and styles. There are also modern cinemas and a computer game center for children and teenagers.

Upon entering the building "Migdal Opera" There is a bookshop that also sells newspapers and maps in different languages.

Tel Aviv beach of golden sand stretches for 14 kilometers.
Along the embankment, which is one of the favorite places for city residents to walk, you can walk to old Jaffa. Windsurfing equipment can be rented on the shore.

Kilometers sandy beaches, the golden shore onto which the waves of the turquoise-blue Mediterranean Sea gently roll - this is
From dawn to dawn on the Mediterranean coast, in countless restaurants, clubs, pubs, entertainment venues, life is in full swing.
There is no other city that represents modern Israel better than together with ancient Jaffa .

Colored umbrellas dot the sea-washed golden sand and rainbows reflect in the clear blue water of the Mediterranean Sea. Windsurfers glide past proud yachts and sports boats; fishermen skillfully pull out their nets, and amateur fishermen cast their fishing rods from piers and breakwaters; Pleasure boats cruise along the shores and powerful motor boats carry water skiers along.
Mediterranean - This.

Israel attracts people for many reasons...
It has a sun-drenched climate, a variety of historical and archaeological sites, and a striking contrast between ancient and modern times.

Luxurious beaches, city bustle, health resorts, religious shrines, nature reserves, shopping centers, bazaars, artist colonies, concerts in the park - all this Israel !!!

Our website invites you to familiarize yourself with a photo gallery of the city , Israel.

Looking at photos of hotels, beaches cities , its territory, you can get a more complete picture of your place of stay and make the right choice!

 

It might be useful to read: