Ajalon
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Ayalon Ayalon |
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 The Ajalon in Tel Aviv |
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| location | West Bank and Israel | |
| River system | Yarkon | |
| Drain over | Yarkon → Levantine Sea | |
| origin | Confluence of two source rivers in the West Bank southeast of Modiʿin 31 ° 52 ′ 13 ″ N , 35 ° 1 ′ 46 ″ E |
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| muzzle | in Tel Aviv in the Yarkon coordinates: 32 ° 5 ′ 59 " N , 34 ° 48 ′ 6" E 32 ° 5 ′ 59 " N , 34 ° 48 ′ 6" E
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| Big cities | Tel Aviv | |
| Medium-sized cities | Lod | |
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The Ajalon ( Hebrew נַחַל אַיָּלוֹן Nachal Ajjalōn , German 'Bach Ajjalon' , Plene :איילון; through transcription from Hebrew, other spellings occur, such as Ayalon ; Arabic وادي المصرارة, DMG Wādī al-Muṣrārah ) is a river in Israel that flows through Tel Aviv .
Geographical information
The source brooks of the Ajalon lie west of an imaginary line Jerusalem - Ramallah near Giv'at Seev . From there the Ajalon flows first in a westerly and then in a south-westerly direction into the Ajalon Valley, which belongs to the Schefela (in which Latrun is also located). There the river turns to the northwest and flows past Lod and Ben Gurion Airport before it reaches the city of Tel Aviv. The Ajalon flows through Tel Aviv for a length of seven kilometers in a north direction; here it runs parallel to the coast at a distance of about three kilometers. In the north of the city the Ajalon flows into the Jarkon , which flows into the Mediterranean a little later.
Like many other rivers in Israel, the Ajalon largely dries up in the summer due to the lack of rainfall. However, during the main rainy season in winter, there was also flooding in the city of Tel Aviv, which made it necessary to block important traffic arteries.
meaning
After Tel Aviv was founded, the Jarkon in the north and the Ajalon in the east represented the limits of settlement activity, so that initially only a narrow strip of coast was available for the new city. The Ajalon is now in the middle of the urban conurbation. Over the past few decades, it has been canalised in Tel Aviv to make way for major traffic arteries. Today the multi-lane north-south axis Ayalon Highway runs along the Ajalon . The Ajalon Expressway is known for its daily, often kilometers long, traffic jams during rush hour. The Israel Railways tracks also run along the river. This rail route was only created in the 1990s; previously there was no continuous track connection in the urban area.
Web links
- ayalonhw.co.il - Website of the Ajalon Highway Company, which u. a. takes care of traffic monitoring (Hebrew)
- Page about traffic control on the expressway ( memento of August 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (with links to webcams; English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ wkgo.de
- ↑ a b Yehuda Karmon : Israel: A geographic study of the country . 2nd Edition. Darmstadt 1994, p. 207