UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, proclaimed " The White City", the unique urban and historical fabric of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, as a World Cultural Heritage site.
Tel Aviv is a worldwide business center, over a than century years old, Tel Aviv today is a busy metropolis and a worldwide business center. It is a home for Israel's largest companies and for numerous branches of the world's leading enterprises
The location of about 50 percent of Israel's industrial plants in
Tel Aviv makes it the country's principal
manufacturing center. Industries include textiles, chemicals, metals
and engineering products, vehicles, electric and electronic equipment,
high tech, furniture and wood products, food and tobacco processing,
diamond polishing, and printing and publishing.
The Tel Aviv stock exchange
is Israel's only such institution, and most banks, insurance companies,
and other large corporations are headquartered there.
Tel Aviv is the home of Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv University,
as well as of the Israeli national theater, Habimah, and the Israel
Philharmonic.
The Tel Aviv Museum, the Ha'aretz Museum, the Museum of the Diaspora,
and a zoo add to the cultural life of the city.
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