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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 ...
21st century. 2003 – Matcal Tower and Tel Aviv Convention Center pavilion built. 2005 – Kirya Tower built. 2006. Bank Discount Tower built. Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival begins. 2007 – Neve Tzedek Tower built. 2009. Tel Aviv-Yafo Centennial.
Menachem Begin addressing a mass demonstration in Tel Aviv against negotiations with Germany in 1952 Between 1948 and 1958, the population of Israel rose from 800,000 to two million. During this period, food, clothes and furniture had to be rationed in what became known as the Austerity Period ( Tkufat haTsena ).
Tel Aviv civilians trying to hide from Arab snipers shooting at the Carmel market from Hassan Beck mosque on, 25 February 1948. The approval of the plan sparked attacks carried out by Arab irregulars against the Jewish population in Palestine. [44] [45] Fighting began almost as soon as the Resolution of November 29, 1947 was approved. Shooting ...
The Diamond Exchange District in Ramat Gan Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Israel is considered the most advanced country in Western Asia and the Middle East in economic and industrial development. [ 494 ] [ 495 ] As of October 2023 [update] , the IMF estimated Israel's GDP at 521.7 billion dollars and Israel's GDP per capita at 53.2 thousand ( ranking ...
Tel Aviv and Jaffa deportation was the expulsion on April 6, 1917, of 10,000 people from Jaffa, including Tel Aviv, by the authorities of the Ottoman Empire in Palestine. [1][2] The evicted civilians were not allowed to carry off their belongings, and the deportation was accompanied by severe violence, starvation, theft, persecution and abuse ...
Maccabiah bridge collapse: A pedestrian bridge collapsed over the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv, killing four. 2000: 24 May: Israel withdrew the last of its forces from southern Lebanon. 1 October: October 2000 events: The first of a series of riots began in which thirteen Arabs and one Jew would be killed over nine days. [8] 7 October
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 ...