Sderot Yerushalayim

Coordinates: 32°3′0.22″N 34°45′31.93″E / 32.0500611°N 34.7588694°E / 32.0500611; 34.7588694

The fountain near the historical city hall of Jaffa

A transportation post designed by architect Richard Kaufmann in 1924

The central Post House of Jaffa designed by architect Austen Harrison in 1931

Sderot Yerushalayim (Hebrew: שדרות ירושלים‎‎), or Jerusalem Boulevard, is a long historical avenue that crosses the city of Jaffa parallel to the shoreline a few hundred meters to the west, from the border of Tel Aviv to Bat Yam in the south (Sderot HaAtsma'ut) to the Yehezkel Kaufmann Street in the north, where it continues as a boulevard to the beach.

The avenue was built in 1915 during World War I by forced Jewish and Arab labor, under Ottoman rule. The original purpose was to connect Jaffa's orchards with the city center. ^[1]

As of 2016, there were about 860 ficus trees along the length of Sderot Yerushalayim. For the Tel Aviv Light Rail's construction, at least 29 of them will be removed and a further four will be relocated.^[1]

References

1 2 "Light rail construction to cripple Jaffa's main thoroughfare". Ynetnews. July 29, 2016. Retrieved July 30, 2016.

External links

Sderot Yerushalayim on Panoramio

Streets in Tel Aviv-Yafo

North-South	Allenby Street Begin Road Ben Yehuda Street Dizengoff Street HaMasger Street HaYarkon Street Ibn Gabirol Street King George Street Nahalat Binyamin Street Rothschild Boulevard Sderot Yerushalayim Yefet Street

East-West	HaArba'a Street Frishman Street Kaplan Street Sheinkin Street

Highways	Ayalon Highway Highway 2

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