Tel Aviv is located located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and is the second most populous city in Israel.
Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 by the Jewish Community of Jaffa on the outskirts of the ancient port city. Tel Aviv and Jaffa were merged into a single municipality in 1950, two years after the establishment of the State of Israel. Tel Aviv´s White City, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003, comprises the world´s largest concentration of Bauhaus buildings.