HaYarkon Street is a major street which runs roughly parallel with the

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Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

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, carrying traffic north and south. The Opera Tower on HaYarkon Street replaces a building from 1945 that housed the Kessem Cinema. In 1948, it became the home of Israel's

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. Sessions were held there until the end of 1949, when the parliament moved to Jerusalem. The HaYarkon Street has several examples of

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, or International Style architecture. One of the important examples is a building by

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, built in 1935 and reconstructed in 2012. The Embassy of the United States was located on HaYarkon Street before its move to Jerusalem in May 2018. It continues to operate as a

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/ref> Other notable sites (selection): * Dan Hotel, Tel Aviv *New Sheraton Tel Aviv Hotel *Cinema Paris (one of the oldest cinemas in the city) * at No. 181 (1985, by French architect Léon Gaignebet), considered an "architectural curiosity" and inspired by the

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*The Russian Embassy in Israel *

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London Square London Square ( he, כיכר לונדון, ''Kikar London'') is a public plaza in the center of Tel Aviv, Israel The square was named in honor of the citizens of London, England who withstood the bombing of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany duri ...

, a public park and town square *

HaGra Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, ( he , ר' אליהו בן שלמה זלמן ''Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman'') known as the Vilna Gaon (Yiddish: דער װילנער גאון ''Der Vilner Gaon'', pl, Gaon z Wilna, lt, Vilniaus Gaonas) or Elijah of ...

Synagogue, founded in 1934 by Rabbi

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*The

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complex File:US embassy Tel Aviv 6924.JPG, Branch office of the US embassy File:PikiWiki Israel 1654 Tel Aviv Israel תל אביב.jpg, Meeting point between Hayarkon Street (left) and Herbert Samuel Street (right) File:Migdal Haopera.jpg, Opera Tower File:CrazyHouse Tel Aviv 2018.jpg, "Crazy House" File:HaYarkon 96.jpg,

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Streets in Tel Aviv {{TelAviv-stub Bauhaus

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