Tel Aviv
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Tel Aviv-Yafo (Ebreu: תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, lit. "Spring Moond"-Jaffa; Arabic: تل أبيب, Tall ʼAbīb),[3] uisually referred tae as Tel Aviv, is the seicont maist populous ceety in Israel, wi a population o 410,000.[2] 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.[4]
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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.[5][6][7]
Tel Aviv is classified as a beta+ warld ceety.[8] It is a major economic hub, hame tae the Tel Aviv Stock Exchynge an mony corporate offices an research an development centers.[9] 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.[10][11][12] Tel Aviv is the kintra's financial caipital a a major performing airts an business centre.[13] The economy o Tel Aviv wis ranked seicont in the Middle East,[14] an 50t globally bi Foreign Policy's 2010 Global Ceeties Index.[15] It is the maist expensive ceety in the region, an the 17t maist expensive ceety in the warld.[16] New York Ceety-based writer an editor David Kaufman named it the "Mediterranean's New Caipital o Cool".[17] 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.[18][19][20]
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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."[21] 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.[22] 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.
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Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Tel Aviv haes a pairtnership wi 
Los Angeles, Californie, USA an is twinned wi:
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