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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Akiva Arie Weiss House, ground floor built 1909. Akiva Arieh Weiss, also spelled Aryeh (1868–1947), was a Zionist activist, architect, and city planner in Palestine. He is best known as the primary founder of Tel Aviv. He had been the initiator of the project to create the "first Hebrew city" in Palestine and presided over its establishment.
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 Hadid. Coordinates: 31°57′49″N 34°57′06″E. Tel Hadid is an archaeological site in Israel. It is located on an isolated hill, 147 metres (482 ft) above sea level, south of a tributary of Ayalon River. The site overlooks the central coastal plain of Israel, the Lydda Valley, and the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, offering a strategic ...
Neve Shalom was the first purpose-built Jewish urban community outside the walls of Jaffa in 1890. [2] It was located to the east of Manshiya and later incorporated it. Some 3,800 Jewish and Arab families lived there before the founding of Tel Aviv. [3] The neighborhood was built of low-rise two storey buildings, some with internal courtyards ...
The Hebrew Anu אנו means 'we, us'. Anu – Museum of the Jewish People is an institution telling the ongoing story of the Jewish people. Re-opened to the public on March 10, 2021, the organization is dedicated to celebrating and exploring the experiences, accomplishments, and spirit of the Jewish community from biblical times to the present. [2]