20 de septiembre

Such Aviv-Jaffa (in Hebrew תלאביב - יפו , Tel Aviv means Colline of Spring ; in Arab تلابيب-يافا , Tal Abīb-Yāfā ) is a coastal town as well as a metropolitan zone in Israel.

The great urban area gathers many distinct municipalities which include/understand approximately 3 million inhabitants living on 14 km along the Mediterranean coast. There is approximately: 380000 inhabitants in Such Aviv-Jaffa even, which makes of it the second plus big city of Israel. The metropolitan zone of Tel Aviv, called Gush daN is made up of the municipalities of Bat Yam, Holon, Ramat Gan, Givatayim, Bnei Brak, Petah Tikva, Rishon LeZion, Ramat Ha-Sharon and Herzliya. The population of this urban area is of 3.100.000 inhabitants.

It is in Tel Aviv that are located the great majority of the embassies of the foreign countries, Jerusalem not being recognized internationally like capital of the country.

The white Ville of Tel-Aviv is registered with the world heritage of UNESCO.

In 2007, Tel Aviv is the greatest Jewish agglomeration of the world, in front of New York.

History

In 1906, the population was concentrated on current the Jaffa. At the convention of the Jews of Jaffa, the participants complained about the difficult living conditions in Jaffa at the medical level, about the state of the streets and but also of the decree “Muhram” which obliged the Jews to change housing each year.

During this meeting, Arieh Akiva Weiss, which had just arrived in the country proposed to establish a new city apart from Jaffa. Its idea was very well accepted and marked the birth of Tel Aviv. Association Yafo Agudat Bonei Batim, precursor of Ahuzat Bait, was created. The grounds were bought, divided into 60 parts. A lottery was organized the 2nd day of Pessa' H 1909, by Raphael Kairi, to distribute 60 divisions among the 60 adherent families with Ahuzat Bait.

List Mayors

  • Meïr Dizengoff (1921-1925)

  • Meïr Bloch (1925-1927)
  • Meïr Dizengoff (1928-1936)
  • Israel Rokach (1936-1952)
  • Chaim Levanon (1953-1959)
  • Mordechai Namir (1959-1969)
  • Yehoshua Rabinowitz (1969-1974)
  • Shlomo Lahat (1974-1993)
  • Ronnie Milo (1993-1998)
  • Ron Huldai (1998-)

Cultural life

Town of freedom and culture, Tel Aviv account of many artists, and is the seat of the Philharmonic orchestra of Israel.

  • The Yitzhak Rabin Center Moshe Safdie Architects
The center commemorates the life and the activities of Yitzhak Rabin. To learn the lessons from the murder, its circumstances and implications. The Center combines socioeducational activity, documentation, commemoration and operates in all the mediums of the Israeli company, Juifs Arab, native and new Israéliens immigrant, residents of the center and the periphery, to perpetuate the memory of Yitzhak Rabin, its assassination and to inculcate the values of democracy.
  • the Museum of Tel-Aviv is rich of Jewish artistic culture and are exposed there works of Marc Chagall.
  • the National theater Habimah is a dream born in Moscow in 1913. The troop is created 4ans later. Among its founders, the actress Hannah Rovina who directed the theater until her 88 years. In 1917, with the revolution Bolshevik, the study of the Hebrew is prohibited. A group of young very committed Jews of Russia, whose Hannah Rovina meets. Whereas the Russian Revolution beats full sound, on their side this group carries out another more discrete revolution: to preserve and perpetuate the Hebraic culture and the language through plays.
In 1931, the troop settles definitively in Tel Aviv and in 1935 the construction of the Habimah theater starts. Important restorations are undertaken since 2006. Work relates to the improvement of the security measures, the accessibility of the Theater, its modernization, the addition of a hall of repetition and a stage. In parallel it is envisaged to build an underground car park has proximity, this last will place 1500 places. During the duration of the work, the representations are dispersed in various rooms of the city like through rounds in all the country. Outside the building draws up a statue made up of three circles, created by the sculptor Menashe Kadishman.
  • the Museum of Art of Tel-Aviv , a new building will double the current space of exposure. It was conceived by the American architect Preston Scott Cohen known for its inventive use of clear and geometrical forms. The Museum accommodates more than one half-million of visitors per annum. Bench in 1932, the Museum increased to become an international arts center. The Extension of the museum estimated at 45 million dollars should be completed in 2009, in conjunction with the 100ème birthday of the foundation of the town of Tel-Aviv.
  • Frederick R Mann Auditorium 1 Huberman St
The Auditorium Frederick R Mann is a place or are organized the important concerts and other cultural events occurring in Tel-Aviv. Opened officially in the years 1950, the Auditorium is the house of the Philharmonic orchestra of Israel which celebrated its 70 years in December 2006. The Philharmonic orchestra of Israel is known for a long time like one of the greatest whole and formations of classical music in the world. He plays closed counters where he goes and was always a marvellous ambassador for the Israeli culture from one side to another of the sphere. The auditorium offers a broad selection in concerts throughout the year. The hall was designed to provide best acoustics, a building luxuriously equipped, offering more than 2700 places. The Auditorium is located near the Habimah Theater and of the House Helena Rubinstein.
  • Golda Meir Center off Performing Arts 23 Shaul Hamelech Blvd.
This complex built in the years 1990 by the architect Yacov Rechter is the house of the Opera of Israel and the Cameri Theater. Ballets and concerts of classical music are held there from time to time. The buildings surround a court used like a place of entry leading to the Opera of Tel-Aviv and the Cameri Theater. Of multiform and asymmetrical, wide style around the court, the complex is exposed towards it and is dissimulated surrounding streets. The characteristics of the center are its two narrow doors which connect the court with the boulevard, each door are in the shape of arc and are a little larger than the building itself, a pendulum is suspended on both.
  • the American Colony of Yafo (Jaffa) - Maine Friendship House
A commemorative plaque in the north of Jaffa honors the 157 American with Jonesport in Maine which arrived here in September 1866. Nellie Chapin and the 35 Christian families brought with them wood and the ready-made units to build their houses. The history of the American Colony is restored in one of the restored houses of the colony, Maine Friendship House. The municipality of Tel-Aviv classified the field on the list of the inheritance to be preserved. Four of these original prefabricated houses remaining of the American Colony received the Price of Safeguarding of the State of Israel.

Structure

Some constructions interesting or representative of the city to be discovered while walking in the street of Tel-Aviv, in addition to the large collection of buildings built in the style Bauhaus (or structures international), most important in the world.

  • Asia House 4 Weizmann St. This building builds in 1979 shelters the embassy of Japan and Sweden.
  • The Crazy House 181 HaYarkon St. Work of the architect Leon Geneva and completed in 1989. The Crazy House evokes the style of Gaudi. Of outside, the architectural style of the building is contrary to the other styles which one meets in Tel-Aviv. The frontage is covered with murals and olive-trees. The interior is him also single in its kind.
  • Pagoda House in the Nahmani-Montefiore streets, conceived by the architect Alexander Levy in 1925, is representative of the architectural boom during the Twenties. Inspired of a coffee of the United States, the house was the spirit of the American centers of recreation during the " years folles" and amalgamates styles Orientaux and Western. Pagoda house is one of a series of imaginative and very decorated buildings which were built in Tel-Aviv for this period, like Tabatchnik' S Beit Hadekel on the street Nahalat Binyamin, the house Beit Bialik and the first town hall of Tel-Aviv designed by the Cherner architect.
  • Kikar Levava de Dani Karavan - Edith Wolfson park Kikar Levava is an environmental sculpture located on a small hill, with the Park of Edith Wolfson. Started in 1977 and completed in 1988. The name of the sculpture means the White square, allusion to the nickname of Tel-Aviv, " the Blanche" City;. The square is at the most point of the city, where it meets the locality of Givatayim. It is not a place too attended by the tourists, but rather by the residents of the corner who come to slacken with the park. The artist used the white concrete. Contrast between the sculpture, the greenery of the park and the buildings surrounding, whose majority are made of reinforced concrete is absolute. This sculpture extends on a surface from 30x50 meters. It presents many elements familiar with other work of Karavan, a pyramid, a channel of water, a tower and a dome with a tree in its center.
  • the Turns Azrieli whose first phase of construction was completed before the years 2000. The construction of the third turn of the complex, delayed because of a legal conflict, recently solved, was finished in 2007 and should be occupied from here the end of the year. Many an other scrape-sky are in the course of construction or should be born in the years which come, on the boulevard of Rothschild, on the sea front, in the district Neve Tzedek, Tzameret park, South Kirya, Ramat Gan.
  • Yafo - the Tower of the Clock Vestige of the Othoman time, the Tower of the Clock announces the entry of the old city, it is a traditional starting point to visit Jaffa. The Tower was built in the honor of the Turkish Sultan Abdoul-Hamid II with the beginning of the year 1900.

scrape-sky in the metropolis (incomplete list)

  • 400m Tel-Aviv 2000 => Projet

  • 325m 81étages Egged Tower => Projet
  • 250m 55étages ha' argaz Tower BLK Barely - Levitzky - Kassif Architects = > Project
  • 244m 68étages Moshe Aviv Tower => Construit
  • 244m 70étages Trump Plaza Tower => Projet
  • 244m 65étages Ampa Tower => Projet
  • ??? m The Gadat Ayalon site Daniel Libeskind => Projet
  • 200m South Kirya Complex => Projet
  • 187m 49étages Circular Azrieli Tower => Construit
  • 170m 40étages Ayalon Tower => Construit
  • 170m 37étages Sheraton City Tower => Construit
  • 169m 46étages Triangular Azrieli Tower => Construit
  • 158m 42étages Kirya Tower => Construit
  • 156m 46étages W-Tower => In construction
  • 154m 42étages Public garden Azrieli Tower => Construit
  • 150m 42étages Ambassador Tower => Projet
  • 147m 42étages Firn Tzedek Tower Zvi Gabay Architect => Construit
  • 144m 4x40étages Whole-dirty Market Towers Ya' rear architects, Jean Paul Viguier => Projet
  • 142m 41étages Yoo Towers Yoo2 => Construit
  • 142m 36étages Shalom Meir Tower => Construit
  • 140m 40étages Manhattan Tower Yaski & Sivan => In construction
  • 140m 34étages Tel-Aviv Towers 1 & 2 Riskin architects => Construit
  • 138m 15étages Marganit Tower => Construit
  • 135m 36étages 1st Rothshild Tower
  • 135m 35étages Opal Tower
  • 130m 32étages International BankTower => Construit
  • 128m 39étages Yoo Towers Yoo1 => Construit
  • 127m 33étages Levinstein Tower => Construit
  • 123m 34étages Tzameret Towers 1,2 & 3 => Construit
  • 120m 35étages HaMenifa Tower 35étages Takamatzu & Lehiani => Projet
  • 114m 29étages Gibor Sport Tower => Construit
  • 108m 24étages Dizengoff Tower => Construit
  • 108m 29étages Isrotel Tower => Construit
  • 102m 28étages Rubinstein Tower => Construit
  • 100m 30étages Discount Bank Tower => Construit
  • 100m 28étages Kikar Hamedina Towers => Projet
  • 100m 30étages Gan Ha' Aeer Tower => Construit
  • 100m 25étages Sea One Tower Tishby-Rozio Architects => In construction
  • 98m 23étages Sonol Tower => Construit
  • 95m 24étages Lev Ha' Eir Tower => Construit
  • 95m 17étages Matcal Building => Construit
  • 94m 24étages Toyota Tower => Construit
  • 93m 23étages Platinium Tower => Construit
  • 92m 25étages Millenium Tower => Construit
  • 92m 24étages Europe Israel => Construit
  • 91m 25étages Opera Tower => Construit
  • 89m 26étages Museum Tower => Construit
  • 85m 17étages Africa Israel Tower => Constuit
  • 81m 22étages David Intercontinental Hotel => Construit
  • 76m 21étages Trade Tower => Construit
  • 69m 18étages Sheraton Moriah Hotel => Construit

Transport

  • the main roads of access to Tel Aviv is called Ayalon Highway. It crosses the city of north to the south.

  • Tel Aviv has 4 railway stations along Ayalon Highway. The stops of north in the south are: Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv Savidor Merkaz (center), Tel Aviv Ha-Shalom, and Tel Aviv ha-Haganah. This line is used by approximately 1 million passengers per month.
  • the coach station of Tel Aviv is largest in the world. It is located at the south of the city. The principal network of bus belongs to Drunk co-operative daN. the Egged co-operative Drunk, second larger company of bus in the world, has also a network of bus in the city.
  • the first line of the Métro of Tel Aviv Red Line , the principal line of the network should be operational in 2012, which will make it possible to improve public transport of the city. She will traverse the densest sectors of the metropolitan region and will serve the greatest number of passengers compared with the future lines which should be built within the framework of the grid system NTA. The line will make approximately 23km, of which 10km traversed in tunnel, of Manshia/Neve Tzedek in Tel-Aviv with beyond the Exchange of Geha, mixed one between tram and subway.
The Line will include 33 stops, 23 stops on the surface and 10 stations under ground. The distance between the stops on the surface will be approximately 500 meters and that between each underground station approximately a kilometer. According to the forecasts made during the study of the project, 100 to 120 million passengers per annum will use the red line from here at 2020. The subway will connect the heart of Tel-Aviv to Bat Yam (southern of Tel-Aviv), Petah Tikva, Ramat-Gan and Bne-Brak. The only existing station is built in the Tour Méir Shalom since 1967.
  • the municipality for developing a system of bicycles in self-service, similar has Paris. This " vélib" such avivien should be operational in 2008. 25 stations should initially be born for a park of 2.500 bicycles. Tel-Aviv has 74 kilometers of cycle tracks and hopes to reduce its level of pollution.
  • the airport of Tel Aviv (code SLL), the International airport David Ben Gurion, is located at 20 kilometers of the center town, Lod, and makes it possible to travel to the four corners of the world. The airport David Ben Gurion is the first airport of Israel and also more on in the World.

Economy

Tel Aviv is a tourist and cultural city but also an economic pole.

One counts many companies high-tech . The Hayarkon turns, impressive, count many stores and companies.

Climate

The climate is characterized by a very wet and hot summer (28 °C in June) and a moderate winter (11 °C in December).

Environment

Tel-Aviv, city Littoral E is not saved by the phenomena of night halation and luminous Pollution, exacerbated by the presence of the water and the particulate pollution of the air.

Twinnings

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