Yarkon Park
Yarkon Park (Hebrew: פארק הירקון, <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Park HaYarkon) is a national park in Tel Aviv, Israel. It is also a very big public urban park in the north of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area and covers an area of 3.5 km². The park is also called the Joshua Gardens (<span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Ganei Yehoshua) after the 7th mayor of Tel Aviv, Yehoshua Rabinovitz. The park extends along the Yarkon River until the river's mouth next to the Yarkon River Peninsula, where it flows into the Mediterranean Sea near to the Reading Power Station. It finishes in Petah Tikva. The largest part of the park runs along the cities of Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak. The river finishes near to Rosh HaAyin in the Yarkon National Garden. The park has many facilities, such as sports facilities, botanical gardens, an aviary, a water park, two outdoor concert venues and artificial lakes. The Ayalon River flows into the Yarkon River in the park after coming from a channel inside Road 20.
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| Type | Urban park |
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| Location | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Area | 3,500 dunams (3.5 km²) |
| Visitors | 16 million |
| Status | Open all year |
Sites in the park
Yarkon Park Media
The area which became Yarkon Park, showing Jewish land ownership (green shading) in June 1947. Light green is land in private Jewish ownership and dark green is JNF land.
The Yarkon Park פארק הירקון
Seven Mills sign in Yarkon Park: “Nothing remains of the impoverished Jarisha village which was situated here in the past”. Noga Kadman's Erased from Space and Consciousness notes that Israeli signage and literature does not mention the Palestinian Arab population who used the mills.
HaBanim Garden, Yarkon Park, Tel Aviv, Israel
Paul McCartney concert in 2008
Yarkon Park from Kiryat Atidim to the Mediterranean Sea
Other websites
- Yarkon National Park at the Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority Archived 2009-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
- Yarkon Park Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
Coordinates: 32°5′58.62″N 34°48′40.28″E / 32.0996167°N 34.8111889°E