Charles Clore Park, Urban park on Mediterranean coastline in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Charles Clore Park is a public green space that runs along Tel Aviv's coast, offering walking paths and cycling routes throughout the site. The park includes exercise equipment, children's play areas, and promenades facing the Mediterranean Sea.
The park occupies land where the Jewish neighbourhood of Yafeh Nof stood, later part of Manshiyya, demolished from 1963; rubble was pushed into the sea and covered with soil. Landscape architect and poet Avraham Hillel designed the park, Charles Clore gave one million lirot in 1971, and it opened in 1974. A two-year renovation began in November 2007.
The park hosts the closing party of the annual Tel Aviv Pride Parade each June, and in May 2019 it held the Euro Village for the Eurovision Song Contest, which drew over 20,000 delegates, media staff and tourists across nine days. In the 1990s, Saturday football leagues of foreign workers' teams were played on its lawns.
The park stretches about 1.5 km along the coast, between Jaffa to the south and the Tel Aviv promenade to the north. A wide promenade runs along the western seawall, where waves often break over the rocks and anglers gather. The eastern side, planted with palms and tamarisk trees, has flatter, more sheltered paths.
The park was built on land reclaimed with rubble from the demolished Manshiyya neighbourhood, whose debris was pushed into the sea. Landscape architect and poet Avraham Hillel designed low hills to shield the grass and coastal shrubs from salt-laden sea winds. A whale-shaped play structure once stood at the centre, recalling the whale that cast Jonah ashore at Jaffa.
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