Tel Aviv’s “WHITE CITY” is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, because the city is home to more Bauhaus, modern and “International” architecture than any city on earth.

Beginning in the 1930's until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, about 4,000 buildings were constructed in this area in the International Style. The White City is located between Allenby Street in the south, Begin Road and Ibn Gvirol Street in the east, the Yarkon River in the north, and the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

The buildings of The White City were designed by Jewish architects, who had studied in the Bauhaus School in Germany (or were influenced by it). Following the rise to power of the Nazi regime these architects fled Europe; many came to Tel Aviv, where they developed a new architectural anguage, characterized by its asymmetry, functionality and simplicity.

The best way to experience The White City is by walking down and around Rothschild Boulevard, where many of the buildings have been restored to their original glory.

Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 as a garden suburb of the crowded port city of Jaffa. Very quickly it grew into a bustling metropolis so that by 1929, it was a flourishing city that was the apex of the Zionist dream. 

With the rise to power of Hitler in 1933, dozens of German Jewish architects escaped to Palestine – many of whom were students or graduates of the legendary Bauhaus school of design.

The burgeoning of Tel Aviv required more and more buildings, and the arriving architects very quickly adapted their northern European Bauhaus design to the needs of the eastern Mediterranean heat. 

A walk through central Tel Aviv will bring you face to face with dozens of these extraordinary office buildings, apartment buildings and stores.