Ramat Aviv is the name of several neighborhoods in the Northwest District of Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

, Israel

Israel

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• Ramat Aviv Aleph (also known as Ramat Aviv, Old Ramat Aviv or Green Ramat Aviv)
• Ramat Aviv Bet (mainly known as Neve Avivim
  Neve Avivim
  Neve Avivim is a residential neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel. It is located in the northwestern part of the city....
  
  )
• Ramat Aviv Gimmel
• Ramat Aviv HaHadasha
  Ramat Aviv haHadasha
  Ramat Aviv HaHadasha is a residential neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel. It is located in the northwestern part of the city....
  
   (New Ramat Aviv)

These neighborhoods have higher than average real estate prices.

Geography

All four neighborhoods are located in the Northwest District (District 1) of Tel Aviv-Yafo. Neve Avivim

Neve Avivim

Neve Avivim is a residential neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel. It is located in the northwestern part of the city....

 (Ramat Aviv Bet) is at the center of the neighborhoods carrying the name Ramat Aviv. Ramat Aviv Aleph is located to the south of Neve Avivim. Ramat Aviv Gimmel is located to the north of Neve Avivim. Ramat Aviv HaHadasha

Ramat Aviv haHadasha

Ramat Aviv HaHadasha is a residential neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel. It is located in the northwestern part of the city....

 is located to the west of Neve Avivim.

Ramat Aviv Mall

Ramat Aviv Mall

Ramat Aviv Mall is a shopping mall on 40 Einstein Street, in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv. At a rent of $1,804 per square meter, it is Israel's most expensive mall and the 35th most expensive mall in the world. Its gross leasable area is 17,800 square meters and it has 140 stores in two retail floors....

 is located in Ramat Aviv Aleph, at its northwestern end, to the southwest of Neve Avivim. The Eretz Israel Museum

Eretz Israel Museum

The Eretz Israel Museum is a historical and archeological museum in the Ramat Aviv neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel.Eretz Israel Museum, established in 1953, has a large display of archaeological, anthropological and historical artifacts organized in a series of exhibition pavilions on its grounds...

 is located to the south of Ramat Aviv Aleph. Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...

 is located east of Ramat Aviv Aleph and Neve Avivim. The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora is located on the campus of Tel Aviv University.

History

Al-Shaykh Muwannis

Al-Shaykh Muwannis

Al-Shaykh Muwannis was a small Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jaffa in British Mandate Palestine located approximately 8.5 kilometers from the center of Jaffa city in territory earmarked for Jewish statehood under the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.The village had...

, a nearby Palestinian village was abandoned in March 1948 under pressure from Jewish militia, two months before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, known to Israelis as the War of Independence or War of Liberation The war commenced after the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine and the creation of an independent Israel at midnight on 14 May 1948 when, following a period of civil war, Arab armies invaded...

. Most of Al-Shaykh Muwannis is part of today's Tel Aviv University campus, however, the outskirts of the Arab village extended into today's Ramat Aviv Aleph.

Ramat Aviv Aleph (then plainly Ramat Aviv) was founded in the 1950s, following the great influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe into Israel. Over the years additional neighborhoods were built to the north and northwest, also carrying the name Ramat Aviv. Around Ramat Aviv Aleph the University of Tel Aviv, Eretz Israel Museum, and Diaspora Museum (on Tel Aviv University campus) were built.

Cultural references

Ramat Aviv Gimmel was the name of a soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

 on Israeli TV. A luxury residential complex in Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

 (capital of Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

) is modelled after Ramat Aviv Gimmel.