Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv-Yafo (Hebrew: ???????? ????????????-??????????, romanized: T??l ????v??v-Y??f??, IPA: [tel a??viv ja??fo]; Arabic: ???????? ???????????? ??? ????????????, romanized: Tall ??Ab??b-Y??f??), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a population of 474,530, it is the economic and technological center of the country and a global high tech hub. If East Jerusalem is considered part of Israel, Tel Aviv is the country's second-most-populous city, after Jerusalem; if not, Tel Aviv is the most populous city...