Sheraton Grand Tel Aviv
General information
LocationTel Aviv, Israel
Address115 Hayarkon Street
OpeningMarch 12, 1977
Height81m
Technical details
Floor count22
Design and construction
Architect(s)Werner Joseph Wittkower, Yaakov Rechter
Other information
Number of rooms318

The Sheraton Grand Tel Aviv is a large hotel on Hayarkon Street in Tel Aviv, Israel.

History

First Hotel

The first Sheraton-Tel Aviv Hotel was located 1 mile north of today's hotel, on the north side of Independence Park. The hotel was originally designed in 1948 as the Nordau Plaza Hotel, and construction was 80 percent completed in 1952, when it was halted.[1] The incomplete shell was acquired by Chicago-based investors in 1957, who planned to complete it, but that project collapsed.[2] It was finally bought by a Milwaukee-based group, which completed the $4,500,000, 220-room, 7-story hotel.[3] It opened in March 1961[4] as the Sheraton-Tel Aviv Hotel, the first Sheraton hotel outside the US and Canada. The 16th Chess Olympiad was held at the Sheraton-Tel Aviv in 1964.[5] A 136-room wing was added to the hotel in November 1970. The Sheraton was renamed in 1974 and demolished in 1991.[6] The site remains vacant today, but the adjacent beach is still known locally as Sheraton Beach.

Current Hotel

The current hotel was built by Ignatz Bubis[7] and Emilio Bruns, and designed by Werner Joseph Wittkower (who had also designed the 1961 hotel) and Yaakov Rechter.[8] It opened on March 12, 1977[9] as the Tel Aviv-Sheraton Hotel and was later known as the Sheraton Tel Aviv Hotel & Towers and then the Sheraton Tel Aviv Hotel. It was extensively renovated in 2022[10] and was renamed the Sheraton Grand Tel Aviv in 2023.

The site

A structure known as the Red House previously stood on the site of the current hotel. It was constructed in 1926 and served as the seat of the city council, and later the headquarters of the Haganah and the Mossad LeAliyah Bet, which coordinated the smuggling of illegal Jewish immigrants into British Mandatory Palestine.[11] During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the Red House served as the headquarters of David Ben-Gurion and the supreme command of the Israel Defense Forces.[12] After the war, it was briefly the seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Red House was demolished to build the hotel. A plaque at the entrance to the hotel commemorates its history.

References

  1. ↑ "The New Climate in Israel:Five Years Have Wrought a Change - Ernest Stock, Commentary Magazine". May 1954.
  2. ↑ http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1957/12/15/page/195/large.jpg
  3. ↑ "The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle from Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 12, 1961 · Page 8".
  4. ↑ "Chicago Tribune: Chicago news, sports, weather, entertainment".
  5. ↑ "OlimpBase :: 16th Chess Olympiad, Tel Aviv 1964, information".
  6. ↑ "Tel Aviv's biggest hotel gets green light - Globes". 5 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "Jewish Leader Ignatz Bubis Dies".
  8. ↑ "Rechter Architects".
  9. ↑ "Эротический массаж в Киеве | салон 5 Комнат".
  10. ↑ https://www.haaretz.com/haaretz-labels/plan-a-trip-to-israel/2022-04-07/ty-article-labels/refreshing-the-brand-the-new-face-of-sheraton/00000180-5b99-d97e-a7fb-7bdf930b0000
  11. ↑ Lau-Lavie, Naphtali (1998). Balaam's Prophecy: Eyewitness to History, 1939-1989. ISBN 9780845348604.
  12. ↑ "Does the Presence of the IDF's HQ in Tel Aviv Endanger the City's Population?". Haaretz.

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