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The Dome of Tel Aviv: Exposing the city's Great Synagogue, layer by layer

The renovation of Tel Aviv's Great Synagogue is exposing the building's many architectural layers, and reopening the question of what a religious structure means in a secular city

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Tel Aviv's Great synagogue seen from the air during renovations. Credit: Tomer Applebaum

The renovation of Tel Aviv's Great Synagogue is exposing the building's many architectural layers, and reopening the question of what a religious structure means in a secular city

Naama Riba

11:18 AM • June 12 2026 IDT

With massive infrastructure works and countless urban renewal initiatives, Tel Aviv is presently one big construction site. Allenby Street is a big part of the chaos: The radical change it is undergoing is turning it from a busy traffic artery into a pedestrian mall with a light rail line.

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