Rare Photos Capture Street Scenes of Tel Aviv in the Late 1930s and Early ’40s

Tel Aviv is a beta+ world city and is ranked 41st in the Global Financial Centres Index. It has the third- or fourth-largest economy and the largest economy per capita in the Middle East. The city has the 31st highest cost of living in the world.

A “party capital” in the Middle East, Tel Aviv has a lively nightlife and 24-hour culture. It has been called The World’s Vegan Food Capital, as it possesses the highest per capita population of vegans in the world, with many vegan eateries throughout the city.

After the 1947–1949 Palestine war, Tel Aviv began the municipal annexation of parts of Jaffa, fully unified with Jaffa under the name “Tel Aviv” in April 1950, and was renamed to “Tel Aviv-Yafo” in August 1950.

Tel Aviv and Jaffa were later merged into a single municipality in 1950, two years after the Israeli Declaration of Independence, which was proclaimed in the city. Tel Aviv’s White City, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003, comprises the world’s largest concentration of International Style buildings, including Bauhaus and other related modernist architectural styles.

Here below is a set of rare photos from aussiejeff that shows street scenes of Tel Aviv from the late 1930s to early 1940s.