Between Derech Hashalom, Kvish Hatayasim and La Guardia in Tel Aviv is a landmark European-style park on a sand hill which, at 57 metres above sea level, is officially the highest point in the city. The Edith Wolfson Park is named for the wife of famous British businessman and philanthropist, Sir Isaac Wolfson, managing director and later chairman of Great Universal Stores, who established the Wolfson Foundation to distribute most of his fortune to good causes, including this park.
The park was built in 1978 by the landscape architects Joseph Segal, Tzvi Dekel and A. Miller. The park includes big lawn fields, a variety of trees and bushes, pathways, sports fields, picnic areas and a small lake with rapids. Even in the ever-noisy city of today it retains its intended quiet, peaceful atmosphere.
At the top of the hill, in the centre of the park, stands a large environmental sculpture called Kikar Levana ("White Square")―though many call it "White City," reflecting its references to the Bauhaus architecture of Tel Aviv's White City. Built between 1977 and 1988, and described by the sculptor as comprising wind, sunlight, water, grass, Olive tree, glass, white concrete, the sculpture is the work of artist Dani Karavan. He dedicated it to the founders of Tel Aviv and his father, Avraham Karavan, who for many years was the chief gardener of Tel Aviv. The environmental sculpture is made of white concrete and combines large objects such as a tower, several geometric structures, a little vegetation and one olive tree, which stands in the center of one of the buildings of this "White City."
Panorama of Kikar Levana [Credit: Talmoryair - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3302145]
