HaYarkon Street

HaYarkon Street is a major street which runs roughly parallel with the coastline in Tel Aviv, Israel, carrying traffic north and south.

View of HaYarkon Street from Opera Tower

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 First Knesset. Sessions were held there until the end of 1949, when the parliament moved to Jerusalem.[1]

The HaYarkon Street has several examples of Bauhaus,[2][3] or International Style architecture. One of the important examples is a building by HaYarkon 96, 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 branch office.[4]

Other notable sites (selection):

See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to HaYarkon Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo.

References
  1. Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am. "Taking a stroll along Tel Aviv's HaYarkon Street". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  2. "The Best Bauhaus Buildings in Tel Aviv". Culture Trip. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  3. "Kamele vor "Bauhaus-Architektur": Was eine Postkarte aus Tel Aviv erzählt". davidkultur.at (in German). Retrieved 2020-09-14.
  4. Everything you need to know about the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem
  5. "Biographie de Léon Gaignebet". Léon Gaignebet, architecte, sculpteur, peintre (in French). Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  6. Deutsch, Gloria (15 March 2006). "The Crazy House". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 24 May 2021.

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