Tel Aviv Port

The Port of Tel Aviv (Hebrew נְמֵל תֵּל אָבִיב Nəmel Tel Avīv) was a port used between 1938 and 1965 in Tel Aviv in Israel, south of the mouth of the Yarkon River.

On April 19, 1936, an Arab uprising broke out, including a strike that paralyzed the port of Jaffa and disrupted the export of citrus fruit. Against the wishes of the British Mandate authorities, who refused to fund it from their tax revenues, the city of Tel Aviv, Politicians and institutions of the Yishuv (such as the Mandate-era Palestine Parliament and its elected Jewish National Council [Hebrew הַוַּעַד הַלְּאֻמִּי Ha-Waʿad ha-Lə'ummī]) the establishment of a company (Hebrew אוֹצָר מִפְעֲלֵי יָם Otzar Mifʿalej Jam, German 'Schatz/Vermögen der Seewerke') initiated the project, which raised the funds and built the Port of Tel Aviv to compete with the Port of Jaffa by 1938. The port was built next to the exhibition grounds of the Levant Fair. The area around the port, like the northern road of Rechov ha-Jarqon and the Reading power station, was built up in the 1930s.

The Port of Tel Aviv was closed with the completion of the Port of Ashdod in 1965 and the area became a storage area. In the 2000s it was renovated and turned into a commercial and recreational area. The Port of Tel Aviv was part of a large new development area called "the Yarkon River Peninsula".

In Jaffa there is a small fishing port as well as a marina.