Tel Aviv: Metzudat Ze’ev (also known as Beit Jabotinsky) & Tel Aviv City Hall

Tel Aviv: Metzudat Ze’ev (also known as Beit Jabotinsky) & Tel Aviv City Hall

This photograph shows Metzudat Ze’ev, an office building in Tel Aviv named for Vladimir Jabotinsky. Jabotinksy was a leader of the right-wing, anti-socialist movement within Zionism. Jabotinsky argued that the future of the Jewish state depended on the energy and resourcefulness of the people in areas of manufacturing.

The building houses, among businesses, the Likud party’s staff, the Jabotinsky Museum and the Jabotinsky Institute. The building was planned in the 1930s but was not completed until 1963. It is designed in the Brutalist architectural style.

Also seen in this photograph is Tel Aviv City Hall, designed by Menahem Cohen, winner of a 1957 design competition for the building.

Chester Smolski

1980-03-01

Rhode Island College

Photograph

Photograph

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Tel Aviv

Israel

1930-

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Architect

Land use -- Aerial photography in land use -- Israel -- Tel Aviv; Cities and towns -- Israel -- Tel Aviv; Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Modern movement;