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GEOGRAPHYThe city is located 60 kilometers northwest of

Jerusalem and 90 kilometers south of the city of Haifa. Neighboring cities and towns include Herzliya to the north, Ramat HaSharon to the northeast, Petah Tikva, Bnei Brak, Ramat Gan and Giv'atayim to the east, Holon to the southeast, and Bat Yam to the south.

CLIMATETel Aviv experiences a hot-summer Mediterranean climate  with hot humid summers and generally mild winters with cool spells. The average annual temperature is 20.2 °C. Average temperature of the sea is 16 °C during the winter, and 29 °C during the summer.

MEANING: Spring´s HillOFFICIAL LANGUAGE: Hebrew. CURRENCY: New Shéqel

Tel Aviv is Israel's capital, and is the second largest city in Israel with a population of 405,500 inhabitants being the most populous metropolitan area of Gush Dan City (Gush , so named because this area was territory tribe of Dan, one of the twelve tribes of the ancient kingdom of Israel.

Tel Aviv was founded in 1909. It is rapidly overtaking city grew in population Jaffa, both eventually merged into a single municipality in 1950 two years after the creation of the State of Israel.

MUSEUMS

Israel has the highest number of museums per capita of any country, with three of the largest located in Tel Aviv.

Eretz Israel Museum: known for its collection of archaeology and history exhibits dealing with the Land of Israel.

 Tel Aviv Museum of Art: Housed on the campus of Tel Aviv University is Beth Hatefutsoth, a museum of the international Jewish Diaspora that tells the story of Jewish prosperity and persecution throughout the centuries of exile.

Batey Haosef Museum: specializes in Israel Defense Forces military history.

ARCHITECTURE Bauhaus architecture was introduced in the 1920s and 1930s by

German Jewish architects who settled in Palestine after the rise of the Nazis. Tel Aviv's White City, around the city center, contains more than 5,000 Modernist-style buildings inspired by the Bauhaus schooland Le Corbusier. Construction of these buildings, later declared protected landmarks and, collectively, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, continued until the 1950s in the area around Rothschild Boulevard. Some 3,000 buildings were created in this style between 1931 and 1939 alone. In the 1960s, this architectural style gave way to office towers and a chain of waterfront hotels and commercial skyscrapers. Some of the city's Modernist buildings were neglected to the point of ruin. Before legislation to preserve this landmark architecture, many of the old buildings were demolished. Efforts are under way to refurbish Bauhaus buildings and restore them to their original condition.

BEACHESTel Aviv has 14 kilometers of beach and is one of the most beautiful

beaches in the world.

RELIGION

Shabbat or Sabbath is the seventh day of the week, which at the time the holiest day of the Jewish week. The Sabbath is observed from sundown Friday until the appearance of three stars on Saturday night.

Tipic food FALAFEL: Considered almost a national dish in Israel (enough to be offered on the menu of the Jewish restaurants) and very popular in the Middle East, the falafel are today recognized and appreciated worldwide due to delicacy that characterizes a delight because of the ingredients that compose them: very aromatic and spicy fried meatballs, made with beans or chickpeas with chopped leek or onion, garlic, cumin and coriander, the falafels are a real treat for the palate precisely because of the significant presence of food components that help give the falafel intense and irresistible flavor.