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Tel Aviv is the Hebrew title of Theodor Herzl’s 1902 novel Altneuland ("Old New Land"), as translated from German by Nahum Sokolow.Sokolow had adopted the name of a Mesopotamian site near the city of Babylon mentioned in Ezekiel: "Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Abib [Tel Aviv], that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven ...
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The White City (Hebrew: העיר הלבנה, Ha-Ir ha-Levana; Arabic: المدينة البيضاء Al-Madinah al-Bayḍā’) is a collection of over 4,000 buildings in Tel Aviv from the 1930s built in a unique form of the International Style, commonly known as Bauhaus, by German Jewish architects who fled to the British Mandate of Palestine from Germany (and other Central and East European ...
Tel Aviv culture. Tel Aviv-Yafo (Hebrew: תֵּל אָבִיב-יָפוֹ; Arabic: تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا) or Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. The city of Tel Aviv is the cultural and economic core of the State of Israel. The city has a large number of cultural and entertainment ...
Dizengoff Square, photographed between 1940 and 1946. In 1934, Genia Averbuch won a competition for the design of a municipal plaza. The square is a circular plaza and has been a focal point of Tel Aviv since its establishment, [4] its location in the very heart of Tel Aviv being one of the reasons.
History. The Tel Aviv Museum of Art was established in 1932 in a building at 16 Rothschild Boulevard that was the former home of Tel Aviv's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff, who had donated the property for a museum in memory of his wife, Zina, following her death in 1930. [ 2 ] On 14 May 1948, 250 delegates quietly gathered at the museum [ 3 ] for ...
With its tall, brick façade and towering bell tower, St. Peter's Church is the single largest and most distinctive building in Old Jaffa. The interior of the church is reminiscent of cathedrals in Europe, with a high vaulted ceiling, stained glass, and marble walls. The stained glass was manufactured in Munich by renowned artist Franz Xaver ...
1930s. 1930s – White City built. 1932. Tel Aviv Museum of Art established. Maccabiah Stadium opens. 1936 – Israel Rokach becomes mayor. 1938 – Jaffa Zoo opens. 1939 – Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper begins publication.