Day 3 – 05. Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

From upper left: Panorama of North-Eastern Tel Aviv from Azrieli Center, the Azrieli Center, Gordon Beach, Tel Aviv City Hall, Jaffa Clock Tower, White City and Panorama of South-Western Tel Aviv from Azrieli Center

Tel Aviv-Yafo is a major city in Israel, located on the country’s Mediterranean coastline. It is the financial center and the technology hub of Israel, with a population of 432,892, making it Israel’s second-largest city. It is the largest city in the Gush Dan region of Israel. It is also a focal point in the high-tech concentration known as the Silicon Wadi.
Tel Aviv is governed by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality, headed by Ron Huldai, and is home to many foreign embassies. It is a global city, and is the thirty second most important financial center in the world. It is known to have the third-largest economy of any city in the Middle East after Abu Dhabi and Kuwait City, and has the 31st highest cost of living in the world. The city receives over a million international visitors annually. Known as “The City that Never Sleeps” and a “party capital”, it has a lively nightlife and 24-hour culture.
The city was founded in 1909 by Jewish immigrants on the outskirts of the ancient port city of Jaffa (Hebrew: יָפוֹ‎ Yafo). It is named after the Hebrew translation of Theodor Herzl’s 1902 novel, Altneuland, meaning “Old New Land”. The modern city’s first neighbourhoods had already been established in 1886, the first being Neve Tzedek. Immigration by mostly Jewish refugees meant that the growth of Tel Aviv soon outpaced Jaffa’s, which had a majority Arab population at the time. Tel Aviv and Jaffa were merged into a single municipality in 1950, two years after the establishment of the State of Israel. Tel Aviv’s White City, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003, comprises the world’s largest concentration of International Style buildings (Bauhaus and other related modernist architectural styles).

Tourism
Tel Aviv attracts over a million international visitors annually. In 2010, Knight Frank’s world city survey ranked it 34th globally. Tel Aviv has been named the third “hottest city for 2011” (behind only New York City and Tangier) by Lonely Planet, third-best in the Middle East and Africa by Travel + Leisure magazine (behind only Cape Town and Jerusalem), and the ninth-best beach city in the world by National Geographic. Tel Aviv is consistently ranked as one of the top LGBT destinations in the world.
Source : wikipedia 
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