Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo (Ebreu: תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ<noinclude>, lit. "Spring Moond"-Jaffa; , Tall ʼAbīb),Tel Aviv is also commonly written in Hebrew without the hyphen (תל אביב). 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 (, Yafo; , 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. Cities in Transition. Ljubljana: Department of Geography, University of Ljubljana, pp. 183–194. 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".Instant weekend ... Tel Aviv, By David Kaufman, The Guardian, Published November 4, 2007. 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 : "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."Beuk o Ezekiel 3:15 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:

  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 1992http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/Hebrew/Cityhall/TwinCities/Index.asp 
  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 Prefeitura.Sp - Descentralized Cooperation  International Relations - São Paulo City  Hall -  Official Sister Cities
  Vienna, Austrick, syne 2005
  Paris, Fraunce syne 2010
  Ottawa, Canadae, syne 2011


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Category:Mixed Israeli communities
Category:Umwhile naitional caipitals
Category:Ceeties in Israel