When was Tel Aviv founded?

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Tel Aviv–Yafo Beach and high-rise buildings in Tel Aviv–Yafo, Israel.

Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 as a Jewish suburb of the city of Jaffa. It was established by middle-class immigrants who sought to build a modern, European-style community with wide streets and parks. The city was named after Theodor Herzl's 1902 novel Altneuland ("Old New Land"), which was translated into Hebrew as Tel Aviv, meaning "Spring Hill".1