Independence Park, Tel Aviv, Israel

Standing: High
Rank: Rank 75 of 1,855

Reviewed by Elena Voss · Roavina Travel Editor

About Independence Park

Independence Park (Gan HaAtzmaut) is a coastal park at the western end of Hayarkon Street in Tel Aviv's Old North, designed by landscape architect Avraham Karavan. Its first trees were planted on Israel's first Independence Day in 1949, and it was officially inaugurated in 1952, when it was the largest park in the city. It was renovated in 2009 as part of Tel Aviv's centennial celebrations. The Hilton Tel Aviv hotel stands inside the park.

Checked 2026-11-10 · Source

What's inside

The park occupies what was mostly a limestone hill. Part of the land has held a Muslim cemetery since the second half of the 19th century; when the Hilton was built on 17 dunams in the centre of the garden in the 1960s, splitting it in two, the tomb of Abd al-Nabi and the graves around it were walled in south of the hotel. The British set up a small military camp here in 1942, which became the IDF's Yona Camp in the 1948 war; the Irgun ship Altalena was shelled from here in June 1948.

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Place details and sources

Type of place: Park OpenStreetMap · Checked 2026-09-09
Established: 1952 Wikidata · Checked 2026-09-09
Architect: Avraham Karavan Wikidata · Checked 2026-09-09
Wikipedia article: Independence Park (Tel Aviv) Wikipedia · Checked 2026-09-09

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Common questions

When did Independence Park open?

Its first trees were planted in 1949 and it was officially inaugurated in 1952.

Where is Independence Park?

On the coast at the western end of Hayarkon Street, in the Old North neighbourhood.

Where it is

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