13 March 2026 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Opera Houses, Theaters, Libraries , Union for the Mediterranean
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The Habima Theatre (
Hebrew : Te’atron HaBima, lit. “The Stage Theatre”) is the
national theatre of
Israel and one of the first
Hebrew language theatres. It is located in
Habima Square in the center of
Tel Aviv .
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23 February 2026 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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The Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, located in
Jaffa ,
Israel , is an independent
non-profit ,
non-governmental , and
non-political organization founded in 1996 by
Nobel Peace Laureate and former
President of Israel Shimon Peres . Its aim is to further Peres’ vision of people in the
Middle East working together to build peace through socio-economic cooperation and development and people-to-people interaction.
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20 October 2025 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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Bat Yam is a city in the
Tel Aviv District of
Israel , on the
Central Coastal Plain just south of
Tel Aviv . It is part of the
Gush Dan metropolitan area . In 2023, it had a population of 131,099.
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9 November 2022 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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Florentin is a
neighborhood in the southern part of
Tel Aviv ,
Israel , named for Solomon Florentin, a
Greek Jew who purchased the land in the late 1920s. Development of the area was spurred by its proximity to the
Jaffa–Jerusalem railway .
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7 September 2022 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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Ramat Gan is a city in the
Tel Aviv District of Israel, located east of the municipality of
Tel Aviv and part of the
Tel Aviv metropolitan area . It is home to one of the world’s major
diamond exchanges, and many
high-tech industries. Ramat Gan was established in 1921 as a
moshav shitufi , a communal farming settlement. In 2022 it had a population of 171,000.
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1 March 2021 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , House of the Month , Union for the Mediterranean
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Moshe Aviv Tower is a 235-metre-tall (771 ft)
skyscraper located in the demarcated area of the
Diamond Exchange District (
Israel Diamond Exchange ) on Jabotinsky Road (No. 7) in the
Tel Aviv District city of
Ramat Gan ,
Israel . The 68-story building is commonly known as City Gate, its original name. It is the
second tallest building in Israel , following
Tel Aviv ‘s 238-meter-high (781 ft)
Azrieli Sarona Tower .
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13 November 2019 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Museums, Exhibitions , Opera Houses, Theaters, Libraries , Union for the Mediterranean
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The Yitzhak Rabin Center is a library and research center in
Tel Aviv ,
Israel , built in memory of assassinated Israeli prime minister
Yitzhak Rabin .
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18 May 2019 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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Expo Tel Aviv (formerly the Israel Trade Fairs and Convention Center and later the Tel Aviv Convention Center, although commonly referred to locally as Exhibition Gardens and also as the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds) is a site located on
Rokach Boulevard in northern
Tel Aviv . It serves as a venue for a variety of events, including
concerts , exhibitions,
trade fairs and conferences.
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13 May 2018 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General
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The
Israeli Declaration of Independence took place on May 14, 1948 or on 5 Iyar 5708, according to the
Hebrew calendar , in the
Independence Hall of the Israeli
de jure capital city
Tel Aviv , mostly as a direct result of the
Holocaust and the
Évian Conference . On the same day, the British
Mandatory Palestine ended. The Independence Day (
Hebrew “Jom haAtzma’ut” for “Day of Independence”) was introduced in the following year 1949 as a reminder of the proclamation of the state by
David Ben-Gurion .
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