Why was Tel Aviv founded as a garden suburb of Jaffa?

Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 by middle-class Jewish immigrants who sought to build a European-style garden suburb characterized by wide, straight streets, parks, and modern urban infrastructure.1

These founders, many of whom had recently settled in the mainly Arab city of Jaffa, aimed to create a new residential environment that offered a departure from the existing urban conditions. While the suburb was nominally part of Jaffa, it was designed to be managed by its own elected, autonomous local council. The initiative was driven by a desire to establish a modern, planned community that reflected the vision of a new Jewish society, eventually evolving into the economic and cultural center of the Jewish population in Palestine.12