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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 ...
Jaffa (Hebrew: יָפוֹ, romanized:Yāfō, pronounced [jaˈfo] ⓘ; Arabic: يَافَا, romanized:Yāfā, pronounced [ˈjaːfaː]), also called Japho or Joppa in English, is an ancient Levantine port city which is part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, located in its southern part. The city sits atop a naturally elevated outcrop on the ...
List. Israel has 16 cities with populations over 100,000, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-Yafo. [2] In all, there are 77 Israeli localities granted "municipalities" (or "city") status by the Ministry of the Interior, including four Israeli settlements in the West Bank. [3] Two more cities are planned: Kasif, a planned city to be built in the ...
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 ...
The Tel Aviv District (Hebrew: מָחוֹז תֵּל אָבִיב; Arabic: منطقة تل أبيب) is the geographically smallest yet also the most densely populated of the six administrative districts of Israel, with a population of 1.35 million residents. [4] It is 98.9% Jewish and 1.10% Arab (0.7% Muslim, 0.4% Christian). [citation needed]
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 ...
Holon (Hebrew: חוֹלוֹן [χoˈlon] ⓘ) is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel, located south of Tel Aviv. Holon is part of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. In 2022 it had a population of 197,957, [ 1 ] making it the tenth most populous city in Israel. Holon has the second-largest industrial zone in Israel, after Haifa. [ 2 ]
On 21 May 1910, the name Tel Aviv was adopted. Eventually, Tel Aviv would become known as "the first [modern] Hebrew city" and a central economic and cultural hub of Israel. Additionally, the first Hebrew edition of the Herzl biography that was written after 1948, and published by Alex Bein in 1960, reflected historical viewpoint changes based ...