Tel Aviv

Tel-Aviv-Yafo (Hebrew תֶּל אָבִיב-יָפוֹ (without niqqud: ?? ????-???); Arabic تَلْ اَبِيبْ-يَافَا Tal-Abīb-Yāfā) is an Israeli city on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Tel-Aviv is also part of the largest and most populous metropolitan area in Israel, known as Gush Dan ("Dan Aggregate"). Tel-Aviv is located at 32°5' North, 34°48' East (32.08333, 34.8). http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html

History

The settlement in the area of modern southern Tel-Aviv (the neighbourhoods of Neve Shalom and Neve Tsedek) was started in the 1880s as a substitute for the rather expensive Arab neighbourhoods of Jaffa. However the city of Tel-Aviv itself was established only in 1909 as Ahuzat Bayit and was later renamed to Tel-Aviv. At its founding, Tel Aviv was intended only to be a suburb, a bedroom community, with the workers commuting to Jaffa. However, a dispute broke out between the Jews of Tel-Aviv and the Arabs of Jaffa in 1921 or thereabouts, and this led the denizens of Tel Aviv to create a new central business district. Owing to its proximity to the port of Jaffa, and its status as the first Jewish community that immigrants saw when coming into the country, Tel-Aviv quickly grew to become the centre of Israeli urban life, and it remains so to this day. In 1950 Tel-Aviv and Jaffa were united in a single municipality - Tel-Aviv-Yafo.

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1880s - Jaffa - 1909 - Ahuzat Bayit - Bedroom community - 1921 - Central business district - Tel-Aviv-Yafo

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During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, for a period of eight months (May-December 1948) during the Arab blockade of Jerusalem it also served as the temporary de facto capital of Israel. Though Israel subsequently designated Jerusalem to be its capital.

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1948 Arab-Israeli War - Month - May - December - 1948 - Jerusalem - De facto

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