Tel Aviv, scene of life
Tel Aviv (English pronunciation: /ˌtɛl əˈviːv/[2]), officially Tel Aviv-Yafo (Hebrew: תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, Hebrew pronunciation: [tel ʔäˈviv ˈjäfo] Hebrew for "Spring Mound"-Jaffa; Arabic: تل أبيب Tall ʾAbīb),[3] is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400.[1] The city is situated on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline, in central Israel, on a land area of square kilometres ( sq mi). It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, home to million residents as of 2010.[1] The city is governed by the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality, headed by Ron Huldai. Residents of Tel Aviv are referred to as Tel Avivim.[4] Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 by the Jewish Community of Yaffo on the outskirts of the ancient port city of Jaffa (Hebrew: יָפוֹ, Yafo; Arabic: يافا, Yaffa). The growth of Tel Aviv soon outpaced Jaffa, which had a majority Arab population in this period.[5] Tel Aviv and Jaffa were merged into a single municipality in 1950, two years after the establishment of the State of Israel. Tel Aviv's White City, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003, comprises the world's largest concentration of Bauhaus buildings.[6][7][8] Tel Aviv is a beta+ world city, alongside cities such as Barcelona and San Francisco.[9] Known as "The City That Never Sleeps", its beaches, parks, bars, cafés, restaurants, shopping, cosmopolitan lifestyle and 24-hour culture have made it a popular destination, visited by over million foreign tourists annually.[10][11][12] Tel Aviv is an economic hub, home to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, corporate offices and research and development centers.[13] It is the country's financial capital and a major performing arts and business center.[14] Tel Aviv has the second-largest economy in the Middle East, and is the 19th most expensive city in the world.[15][16] In 2007, New York City-based David Kaufman named it the "Mediterranean's New Capital of Cool".[17] In 2010, Knight Fra
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