From a barren desert wasteland, early Jewish settlers built the land from scratch — transforming it into a global economic and technological powerhouse and cementing it as one of the world’s great cities.
Happy Birthday to the coolest, hottest city in the world. @TelAviv is 117 years young.
Founded by idealistic Jews with dreams of a better future in 1909, Tel Aviv has become an economic powerhouse and arguably the sexiest city in the world.#foreveryoung pic.twitter.com/PFp9ekocNt
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) April 11, 2026