Editing Tel Aviv (section)

==Etymology and origins==
{{See also|Tel Abib}}

''Tel Aviv'' is the Hebrew title of [[Theodor Herzl]]’s 1902 novel {{lang|de|[[The Old New Land|Altneuland]]}} ("Old New Land"), as translated from German by [[Nahum Sokolow]]. Sokolow had adopted the name of a [[Mesopotamia]]n site near the city of Babylon mentioned in [[Book of Ezekiel|Ezekiel]]: "Then I came to them of the captivity at {{As written|Tel Abib}} [Tel Aviv], that lived by the [[river Chebar]], and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days."<ref name="Ezekiel 3"/> The name was chosen in 1910 from several suggestions, including "[[Herzliya]]". It was found fitting as it embraced the idea of a renaissance in the ancient Jewish homeland. ''Aviv'' ({{lang|he|אביב}}, or ''Abib'') is a Hebrew word that can be translated as "spring", symbolizing renewal, and ''[[Tell (archaeology)|tell]]'' (or ''tel'') is an artificial mound created over centuries through the accumulation of successive layers of civilization built one over the other and symbolizing the ancient.

Although founded in 1909 as a small settlement on the sand dunes north of Jaffa, Tel Aviv was envisaged as a future city from the start. Its founders hoped that in contrast to what they perceived as the squalid and unsanitary conditions of neighbouring Arab towns, Tel Aviv was to be a clean and modern city, inspired by the European cities of [[Warsaw]] and [[Odesa]].<ref name="Shavit 2012">{{cite book |last=Shavit |first=Yaacov |chapter=Telling the Story of a Hebrew City |pages=1–12 |title=Tel-Aviv, the First Century: Visions, Designs, Actualities |editor-last1=Azaryahu |editor-first1=Maoz |editor-first2=Selwyn |editor-last2=Ilan Troen |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yLQrEPLDkGAC&pg=PA1 |isbn=978-0-253-22357-9 |access-date=9 June 2022 |archive-date=5 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005124456/https://books.google.com/books?id=yLQrEPLDkGAC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> The marketing pamphlets advocating for its establishment stated:<ref name="Shavit 2012"/>

{{blockquote|In this city we will build the streets so they have roads and sidewalks and electric lights. Every house will have water from wells that will flow through pipes as in every modern European city, and also sewerage pipes will be installed for the health of the city and its residents. | Akiva Arieh Weiss | 1906}}