Tel Aviv is the Hebrew title of Theodor Herzl’s 1902 novel Altneuland
Although founded in 1909 as a small settlement on … See more

The walled city of Jaffa is modern-day Tel Aviv-Yafo's only urban centre that existed in early modern times. Jaffa was an important port city in the region for millennia. Archaeological evidence shows signs of human settl… See more

Tel Aviv is located around 32°5′N 34°48′E / 32.083°N 34.800°E on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline, in central Israel, the historic land bridge between Europe, Asia and Africa. Immediately north of the ancient por… See more

Tel Aviv is governed by a 31-member city council elected for a five-year term by in direct proportional elections, and a mayor elected for the same term by direct elections under a two-round system. Like all other mayo… See more

Tel Aviv has a population of 474,530 spread over a land area of 52,000 dunams (52 km ; 20 sq mi), yielding a population density of 7,606 people per square km (19,699 per square mile). According to the Israel Centr… See more

Tel Aviv has been ranked as the twenty-fifth most important financial center in the world. In 1926, the country's first shopping arcade, Passage Pensak, was built there. By 1936, as tens of thousands of middle class immigrants arrived … See more

Tel Aviv is home to different architectural styles that represent influential periods in its history. The early architecture of Tel Aviv consisted largely of European-style single-storey houses with red-tiled roofs. Neve Tzedek, … See more