Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Tel Aviv Port (Hebrew: נָמֵל תֵּל־אָבִיב, romanized: Nāmēl Tēl-ʾĀvīv; Arabic: حَيْفَا تَلّ أَبِيب, romanized: Mīnāʿ Tall ʾAbīb) is a commercial and entertainment district in northwest Tel Aviv, Israel along the Mediterranean Sea.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Aerial view of old Jaffa Aerial view of old Jaffa and port with Tel Aviv behind Jaffa, also called Japho, Joppa or Joppe in English, is an ancient Levantine port city which is part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, located in its southern part. The city sits atop a naturally elevated outcrop on the ...
23 February – The Port of Tel Aviv officially opens, as a competing (Jewish) port to the port in Jaffa, the latter having been crippled by the Arab revolt and general strike since 1936. 1 March – Sir Harold MacMichael assumes office as the High Commissioner of Palestine. 21 March – The founding of the kibbutz Hanita
Jaffa Port (before 1899) Jaffa Port (Hebrew: נמל יפו, Nemal Yāfō; Arabic: ميناء يافا, Menʿā Yāfā) is an ancient port situated on the Mediterranean Sea. It is located in Old Jaffa within Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel. The port serves as a fishing harbour, a yacht harbour, and as a tourist destination. [1]
Tel Aviv is the Hebrew title of Theodor Herzl’s 1902 novel Altneuland ("Old New Land"), as translated from German by Nahum Sokolow.Sokolow had adopted the name of a Mesopotamian site near the city of Babylon mentioned in Ezekiel: "Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Abib [Tel Aviv], that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven ...
The authority was set up on July 1, 1961, under the Ports Authority Law 5721-1961. On July 26, 1988, the Knesset approved an amendment to the Ports Authority Law, merging Israel Railways into the Authority, henceforth to be known as the Israel Ports and Railways Authority.
Israel carried out air strikes on the Houthi-controlled Red Sea port of Hodeidah in Yemen in July after a drone launched by the group hit Tel Aviv, killing one person and injuring 10 others. ...
The city-port of Jaffa was especially singled out. Under the guise of urban renewal the British ordered the demolition of hundreds of homes in the city and more than a thousand in neighbouring villages. [9] The British also authorised the building of a port in neighboring Tel Aviv to compete with the strike-bound Port of Jaffa.