Ben Yehuda Street is a street in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...

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. The street runs from an intersection with

Allenby Street Allenby Street () is a major street in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was named in honor of Field Marshal Viscount Allenby. Allenby Street stretches from the Mediterranean Sea in the northwest to HaAliya Street in the southeast. It was first paved with ...

, northwards intersecting where it runs roughly with the sea front to the west and

Dizengoff Street Dizengoff Street (, ''Rehov Dizengoff'') is a major street in central Tel Aviv, named after Tel Aviv's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff. The street runs from the corner of Ibn Gabirol Street in its southernmost point to the port area of Tel Aviv in i ...

to the east. At the northernmost end, it joins with Dizegoff Street, near

Yarkon Park Yarkon Park (, ''Park HaYarkon'') is a park in Tel Aviv, Israel, with about sixteen million visits annually. Named after the Yarkon River, which flows through it, the park includes extensive lawns, sports facilities, botanical gardens, an aviar ...

. The street is named after the founder of

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, the Litvak

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and

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Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda (born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman; 7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922) was a Russian–Jewish linguist, lexicographer, and journalist who immigrated to Jerusalem in 1881, when the Ottoman Empire ruled it. He is renowned as the ...

. In 1958, the first supermarket was opened on Ben Yehuda Street.Anne Weberling, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Julius H. Schoeps, Olaf Glöckner, Yitzhak Sternberg (2016)
''Handbook of Israel: Major Debates''
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