# Tel Aviv

| Tel Aviv * תל אביב (Ebreu)
* تل أَبيب (Arabic)
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**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 |
| BannerCoat airms |
| Eik-name(s): *The White Ceety*, *The Ceety That Niver Sleeps*, *The Big Orange* |
| Tel AvivLocation in Israel |
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| Kintra |  Israel |
| Destrict | Tel Aviv |
| Metropolitan Aurie | Gush Dan |
| Foondit | 11 Aprile 1909 |
| Govrenment |
|  • Teep | Mayor-cooncil |
|  • Bodi | Tel Aviv municipality |
|  • Mayor | Ron Huldai (Labor) |
| Area |
|  • Ceety | 52 km2 (20 sq mi) |
|  • Urban | 176 km2 (68 sq mi) |
|  • Metro | 1516 km2 (585 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 5 m (16 ft) |
| Population (2013) |
|  • Ceety | 410,000 |
|  • Rank | 2nt in Israel |
|  • Density | 7955.5/km2 (20,605/sq mi) |
|  • Density rank | 12t in Israel |
|  • Urban | 1,300,000 |
|  • Urban density | 7297.7/km2 (18,901/sq mi) |
|  • Metro | 3,405,000 |
|  • Metro density | 2193.7/km2 (5,682/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Tel Avivi |
| Ethnicity |
|  • Jews | 91% |
|  • Muslims | 3% |
|  • Christians | 1% |
|  • Unclassifee'd | 5% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (IST) |
|  • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (IDT) |
| Aurie code | +972 (Israel) 3 (Ceety) |
| ISO 3166 code | IL-TA |
| Website | tel-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*), uisually referred tae as **Tel Aviv**, is the seicont maist populous ceety in Israel, wi a population o 410,000. 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*.

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.

Tel Aviv is classified as a beta+ warld ceety. It is a major economic hub, hame tae the Tel Aviv Stock Exchynge an mony corporate offices an research an development centers. 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. Tel Aviv is the kintra's financial caipital a a major performing airts an business centre. The economy o Tel Aviv wis ranked seicont in the Middle East, an 50t globally bi *Foreign Policy'*s 2010 Global Ceeties Index. It is the maist expensive ceety in the region, an the 17t maist expensive ceety in the warld. New York Ceety-based writer an editor David Kaufman named it the "Mediterranean's New Caipital o Cool". 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*.

## Etymology

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." 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. 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

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

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| * San Salvador, El Salvador
* Mexico Ceety, Mexico
* Toulouse, Fraunce, syne 1962
* Philadelphia, Unitit States, syne 1967
* Cologne, Germany, syne 1979
* Frankfurt, Germany, syne 1980
* Bonn, Germany, syne 1983
* Buenos Aires, Argentinae, syne 1988
* Budapest, Hungary, syne 1989
* Belgrade, Serbie, syne 1990
* Warsaw, Poland, syne 1992
* Essen, Germany, syne 1992
 | * Sofia, Bulgarie, syne 1992
* Cannes, Fraunce, syne 1993
* Łódź, Poland, syne 1994
* Milan, Italy, syne 1994
* Thessaloniki, Greece, since 1994
* Beijing, Cheenae, synee 1995
* New York Ceety, Unitit States, syne 1996
* Barcelona, Spain, synee 1998
 | * İzmir, Turkey, syne 1998
* Gaza, Palestine, syne 1998
* Almaty, Kazakhstan, syne 1999
* Chişinău, Moldovae, syne 2000
* Incheon, Sooth Korea, syne 2000
* Limassol, Cyprus, syne 2000
* Moscow, Roushie, syne 2000
* São Paulo, Brazil, syne 2004
* Vienna, Austrick, syne 2005
* Paris, Fraunce syne 2010
* Ottawa, Canadae, syne 2011
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