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Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with a population of 3.3 million residents as of 2010...

Timeline of Events

1972

5.30.1972

In Tel Aviv members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.

1976

6.27.1976

Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.

1997

3.21.1997

In a Tel Aviv, Israel coffee shop, a suicide bomber kills 3 and injures 49.

2001

6.1.2001

Dolphinarium massacre: an Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.

2006

4.17.2006

Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing eleven people and injuring 70.