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Tel Aviv

Ceety
Frae upper left: Skyline o Rothschild boulevard, Azrieli Sarona Touer, Jaffa Clock Touer, Rabin Squerr, Tel Aviv Promenade, panorama o the ceety frae the Yitzhak Rabin Centre
Banner o Tel Aviv
Banner
Coat of airms o Tel Aviv
Coat airms
Eik-name(s): 
The White Ceety,
The Ceety That Niver Sleeps, The Big Orange[1]
Tel Aviv is located in Israel
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Location in Israel
Coordinates: 32°4′N 34°47′E / 32.067°N 34.783°E / 32.067; 34.783Coordinates: 32°4′N 34°47′E / 32.067°N 34.783°E / 32.067; 34.783
Kintra Israel
DestrictTel Aviv
Metropolitan AurieGush Dan
Foondit11 Aprile 1909
Govrenment
 • TeepMayor-cooncil
 • BodiTel Aviv municipality
 • MayorRon Huldai (Labor)
Area
 • Ceety52 km2 (20 sq mi)
 • Urban
176 km2 (68 sq mi)
 • Metro
1516 km2 (585 sq mi)
Elevation
5 m (16 ft)
Population
 (2013)[2]
 • Ceety410,000
 • Rank2nt in Israel
 • Density7955.5/km2 (20,605/sq mi)
 • Density rank12t in Israel
 • Urban
1,300,000
 • Urban density7297.7/km2 (18,901/sq mi)
 • Metro
3,405,000
 • Metro density2193.7/km2 (5,682/sq mi)
Demonym(s)Tel Avivi
Ethnicity
 • Jews91%
 • Muslims3%
 • Christians1%
 • Unclassifee'd5%
Time zoneUTC+2 (IST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (IDT)
Aurie code+972 (Israel) 3 (Ceety)
ISO 3166 codeIL-TA
Websitetel-aviv.gov.il
Location o Tel Aviv in the Tel Aviv Destrict

Tel Aviv-Yafo (Ebreu: תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, lit. "Spring Moond"-Jaffa; Arabic: تل أبيب‎, Tall ʼAbīb),[3] uisually referred tae as Tel Aviv, is the seicont maist populous ceety in Israel, wi a population o 410,000.[2] The ceety is situated on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline, on a land aurie o 51.4 square kilometres (19.8 sq mi). It is the lairgest an maist populous ceety in the metropolitan aurie o Gush Dan. Residents o Tel Aviv are cawed Tel Avivians.[4]

Tel Aviv wis foondit in 1909 on the ootskirts o the ancient port ceety o Jaffa (Hebrew: יָפוֹ‬, Yafo; Arabic: يافا‎, Yaffa). The growth o Tel Aviv suin ootpaced Jaffa, which wis lairgely Arab at the time. Tel Aviv an Jaffa wur merged intae a single municipality in 1950, twa years efter the establishment o the State o Israel. Tel Aviv's White Ceety, designatit a UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid in 2003, comprises the warld's lairgest concentration o Bauhaus biggins.[5][6][7]

Tel Aviv is classified as a beta+ warld ceety.[8] It is a major economic hub, hame tae the Tel Aviv Stock Exchynge an mony corporate offices an research an development centers.[9] Its beaches, parks, bars, cafés, restaurants, shoppin, cosmopolitan lifestyle an 24-hour cultur hae made it a popular tourist destination for domestic an owerseas tourists alike, contributin tae its reputation as "the ceety that niver sleeps.[10][11][12] Tel Aviv is the kintra's financial caipital a a major performing airts an business centre.[13] The economy o Tel Aviv wis ranked seicont in the Middle East,[14] an 50t globally bi Foreign Policy's 2010 Global Ceeties Index.[15] It is the maist expensive ceety in the region, an the 17t maist expensive ceety in the warld.[16] New York Ceety-based writer an editor David Kaufman named it the "Mediterranean's New Caipital o Cool".[17] In 2010, Tel Aviv haes been named the third-best ceety in the warld bi Lonely Planet, third-best in the Middle East & Africae bi Travel + Leisure magazine, an ane o the best beach ceeties in the warld bi National Geographic.[18][19][20]

Etymology

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The name Tel Aviv (literally "Spring Moond") wis chosen in 1910 amang mony suggestions, includin "Herzliya". Tel Aviv is the Ebreu title o Theodor Herzl's beuk Altneuland ("Auld New Land"), translatit frae German bi Nahum Sokolow. Sokolow teuk the name frae Ezekiel 3:15: "Then A came tae them o the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived bi the river Chebar, an tae where they lived; an A sat there owerwhelmed amang them seiven days."[21] This name wis foond fittin as it embraced the idea o the renaissance o the auncient Jewish hameland. Aviv is Ebreu for "spring", seembolizin renewal, an tel is an airchaeological site that reveals layers o ceevilization built ane ower the ither.[22] Theories vary aboot the etymology o Jaffa or Yafo in Ebreu. Some believe that the name derives frae yafah or yofi, Ebreu for "bonnie" or "beauty". Anither tradition is that Japheth, son o Noah, foondit the ceety and that it wis named for him. The name is an aa transliteratit as Tel-Abib in the Keeng James Bible.

Twin touns — Sister ceeties

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Tel Aviv haes a pairtnership wi United States Los Angeles, Californie, USA an is twinned wi:

References

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  1. ↑ NYT Travel – Introduction to Tel Aviv
  2. 1 2 "לוח 3.- אוכלוסייה( 1), ביישובים שמנו מעל 2,000 תושבים( 2) ושאר אוכלוסייה כפרית Population (1) of localities numbering above 2,000 Residents (2) and other rural population" (PDF). Retrieved 25 Januar 2010. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ↑ Tel Aviv is also commonly written in Hebrew without the hyphen (תל אביב).
  4. ↑ "Tel Aviv Municipality". Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality. Archived frae the original on 22 Apryle 2007. Retrieved 2 Februar 2008.
  5. ↑ "The White City of Tel Aviv" (PDF). UNESCO. Retrieved 29 Mairch 2008.
  6. ↑ Strimpel, Zoe (16 Februar 2008). "Hip and happening in Tel Aviv". The Times. London. Archived frae the original on 19 Julie 2008. Retrieved 16 Februar 2008.
  7. ↑ "Economist City Guide-Tel Aviv". The Economist. Retrieved 21 Januar 2008.
  8. ↑ "GaWC - The World According to GaWC 2008". Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Archived frae the original on 11 August 2016. Retrieved 1 Mairch 2009.
  9. ↑ "New Economy: Silicon Wadi". Wired. 16 Apryle 1998. Archived frae the original on 29 Juin 2012. Retrieved 2 Februar 2008.
  10. ↑ "The world's top 10 party towns". Sydney Morning Herald. 19 November 2009. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
  11. ↑ "An ugly scrap at Heathrow for the 'best-looking kid on the block'". London: Independent on Sunday. 30 Mairch 2008. Archived frae the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 30 Mairch 2008.
  12. ↑ Burchill, Julie (3 Apryle 2010). "Tel Aviv, Eilat and beautiful Jerusalem". London: The Times. Retrieved 3 Apryle 2010.[deid airtin]
  13. ↑ Kipnis, B.A. (8 October 2001). "Tel Aviv, Israel – A World City in Evolution: Urban Development at a Deadend of the Global Economy". Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network at Loughborough University. Archived frae the original on 3 Mairch 2016. Retrieved 17 Julie 2007. Cities in Transition. Ljubljana: Department of Geography, University of Ljubljana, pp. 183–194.
  14. ↑ "The 150 Richest Cities in the World by GDP in 2005". Retrieved 13 Januar 2009.
  15. ↑ "The 2010 Global Cities Index". Archived frae the original on 2 Februar 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2010.
  16. ↑ "Cost of living — The world's most expensive cities". City Mayors.
  17. ↑ Instant weekend ... Tel Aviv, By David Kaufman, The Guardian, Published November 4, 2007.
  18. ↑ "Tel Aviv ranked world's 3rd hottest city for 2011". Retrieved 1 November 2010.
  19. ↑ "World's Best Awards 2010 - Africa and the Middle East". Retrieved 11 Julie 2010.
  20. ↑ "Top 10 Beach Cities". Archived frae the original on 12 Julie 2010. Retrieved 30 Julie 2010.
  21. ↑ Beuk o Ezekiel 3:15
  22. ↑ "Tel Aviv". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 18 Julie 2007.
  23. ↑ "Frankfurt -Partner Cities". © 2008 Stadt Frankfurt am Main. Archived frae the original on 7 November 2007. Retrieved 5 December 2008. freemit airtin in |publisher= (help)
  24. ↑ "Sister cities of Budapest" (in Hungarian). Official Website of Budapest. Archived frae the original on 9 Mairch 2005. Retrieved 1 Julie 2009.
  25. ↑ http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/Hebrew/Cityhall/TwinCities/Index.asp Archived 2009-02-14 at the Wayback Machine
  26. ↑ "Miasta partnerskie Warszawy". um.warszawa.pl. Biuro Promocji Miasta. 4 Mey 2005. Archived frae the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 29 August 2008.
  27. ↑ "List of Twin Towns in the Ruhr Destrict" (PDF). © 2009 Twins2010.com. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 28 November 2009. Retrieved 28 October 2009. freemit airtin in |publisher= (help)
  28. ↑ "Milano - Città Gemellate". © 2008 Municipality of Milan (Comune di Milano). Archived frae the original on 10 Apryle 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2008.
  29. ↑ "Twinning Cities". City of Thessaloniki. Archived frae the original on 31 Mairch 2009. Retrieved 7 Julie 2009.
  30. ↑ "Barcelona internacional - Ciutats agermanades" (in Spanish). © 2006-2009 Ajuntament de Barcelona. Archived frae the original on 27 November 2012. Retrieved 13 Julie 2009. freemit airtin in |publisher= (help)CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
  31. ↑ "São Paulo - Sister Cities Program". © 2005-2008 Fiscolegis - Todos os direitos reservados Editora de publicações periodicas - LTDA / © 2008 City of São Paulo. Archived frae the original on 17 Mey 2012. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
  32. ↑ Prefeitura.Sp - Descentralized Cooperation Archived 2008-12-24 at the Wayback Machine
  33. ↑ International Relations - São Paulo City Hall - Official Sister Cities
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