Palatin Hotel Tel Aviv, Former hotel building in Nahalat Binyamin, Tel Aviv, Israel

The Palatin Hotel is a 1926 building at 28 Ahad Ha'am Street, on the corner of Nahalat Binyamin, in Tel Aviv. Architect Alexander Baerwald combined European heritage, the Turkish-Eastern construction he found in Jaffa, and modernist elements. The building has 60 rooms, a concert hall, a billiard and dance club, and the second elevator installed in Palestine. Its peach-coloured plaster facade was restored in the 1990s.

Alexander Baerwald designed the hotel for Aharon Meir Mazya and his son-in-law Zvi Isaacson; it opened on 1 September 1926 with 60 rooms, a concert hall and the second elevator in Palestine. After the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt the owners closed it in 1938 and converted it into offices. From 1942 to 1944 it housed Allied soldiers, then passed to the Scottish Church as St. Andrew's House.

The hotel's name comes from the Latin palatium, meaning palace, chosen by its owner Aharon Meir Mazya from the Talmud. Its concert hall hosted the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, and the building had a ballroom, billiard room and two restaurants. In 1930 a protest against British Under-Secretary Drummond Shiels outside its doors, led by Abba Ahimeir and Brit HaBirionim, is considered the first anti-British Jewish demonstration.

The building stands at 28 Ahad Ha'am Street, on the corner of Nahalat Binyamin, next to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in the financial district. Its ground floor was converted to shops, and the original entrance was moved to the right, so look for the reconstructed entrance element above the present doorway. The offices upstairs are private; the facade and the added fifth floor are best seen from the street.

Because cash was scarce in Mandate Palestine, the hotel's management issued its own coins bearing the inscription "Palatin hotel", which guests used for transactions inside the building. The hotel also had 60 rooms, 20 of them extra class, and employed 80 staff.