ISRAEL: UNESCO DESIGNATES TEL AVIV AS "WORLD HERITAGE SITE".

(From InfoProd)

UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has designated the "White City architecture" of Tel Aviv as one of 24 new World Heritage Sites. UNESCO now recognizes 754 world sites it describes as being of "outstanding universal value." "Tel Aviv is one of the few UNESCO recognitions of a 20th century phenomenon as a world heritage site." "What makes the designation of Tel Aviv so unprecedented," says Minster of Tourism, Benny Elon, is that almost every other UNESCO World Heritage Site is either a natural wonder, or hundreds or thousands of years old. Designating Tel Aviv is one of the few UNESCO recognitions of a …