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Great Synagogue (Tel Aviv)

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The Great Synagogue of Tel Aviv is located on 110 Allenby Street, Tel Aviv, just east of the Shalom Tower. The building was designed by Yehuda Magidovitch in 1922 and completed in 1926. It was renovated in 1970 with a new external facade of arches. In the past, the synagogue was at the center of Little Tel Aviv, but today the building lies at the heart of the business and financial center. The emigration of the local residents during the 1960s brought about a recognizable reduction in the number of prayer-goers in The Great Synagogue, such that today the impressive building is used by only few congregants who pray on holidays and special occasions. In recent years, public figures have decided to conduct their Jewish wedding ceremonies at the synagogue. [1]

22 relations: Alexander Baerwald, Allenby Street, Architect, Aryeh Elhanani, Baron Rothschild, Concrete, Glass, Haifa, Hebrew Reali School, Israel, King David Hotel bombing, Modernism, Orthodox Judaism, Shalom Meir Tower, Stained glass, Steel, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv, The Holocaust, Torah ark, World War I, Yehuda Magidovitch.

Alexander Baerwald

Alexander Baerwald (1877–1930) was a German Jewish architect best known for his work in Haifa, Israel.

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Allenby Street

Allenby Street (רחוב אלנבי Rehov Alenbi) is a major street in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Architect

An architect is a person who plans, designs, and reviews the construction of buildings.

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Aryeh Elhanani

Arieh Elhanani (1898–1985) was an Israel Prize winner in the field of architecture for his “contribution to shaping Israeli culture.”.

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Baron Rothschild

Baron Rothschild, of Tring in the County of Hertfordshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Concrete

Concrete, usually Portland cement concrete, is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens over time—most frequently a lime-based cement binder, such as Portland cement, but sometimes with other hydraulic cements, such as a calcium aluminate cement.

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Glass

Glass is a non-crystalline amorphous solid that is often transparent and has widespread practical, technological, and decorative usage in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optoelectronics.

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Haifa

Haifa (חֵיפָה; حيفا) is the third-largest city in Israel – after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv– with a population of in.

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Hebrew Reali School

The Hebrew Reali School of Haifa (בית הספר הריאלי העברי בחיפה), located in Haifa, Israel, is one of the country's oldest private schools.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

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King David Hotel bombing

The King David Hotel bombing was a terrorist attack carried out on Monday, July 22, 1946, by the militant right-wing Zionist underground organization the Irgun on the British administrative headquarters for Palestine, which was housed in the southern wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is a collective term for the traditionalist branches of Judaism, which seek to maximally maintain the received Jewish beliefs and observances and which coalesced in opposition to the various challenges of modernity and secularization.

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Shalom Meir Tower

Shalom Meir Tower (מגדל שלום מאיר, Migdal Shalom Meir; commonly known as Migdal Shalom, מגדל שלום) is an office tower in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Stained glass

The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works created from it.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.

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Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל Ha-Tekhniyon — Makhon Tekhnologi le-Yisrael) is a public research university in Haifa, Israel.

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Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv (תֵּל אָבִיב,, تل أَبيب) is the second most populous city in Israel – after Jerusalem – and the most populous city in the conurbation of Gush Dan, Israel's largest metropolitan area.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.

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Torah ark

The ark in a synagogue (also called the Torah ark or holy ark) is generally a receptacle, or ornamental closet, which contains each synagogue's Torah scrolls (Sifrei Torah in Hebrew).

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Yehuda Magidovitch

Yehuda Magidovitch (1886–1961) was one of the most prolific Israeli architects.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Synagogue_(Tel_Aviv)

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