What is Yarkon Park?
{{Infobox park | name = Yarkon Park | photo = Hayarkon-TelAviv.jpg | photo_width = 280 | photo_caption = | type = [[Urban park]] | location = [[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]] | area = 3,500 [[dunams]] (3.5 km²) | created = 1973 | operator = Tel Aviv municipality | visitation_num = 16 million | status = Open all year }} '''Yarkon Park''' ({{lang-he|פארק הירקון}}, ''{{transl|he|Park HaYarkon}}'') is a [[national park]] in [[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]]. It is also a very big public [[urban park]] in the north of the [[Gush Dan|Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area]] and covers an area of 3.5 [[Square kilometre|km²]]. The park is also called the '''Joshua Gardens''' ({{transl|he|Ganei Yehoshua}}) after the 7th [[mayor]] of Tel Aviv, [[Yehoshua Rabinovitz]]. The park extends along the [[Yarkon River]] until the river's mouth next to the Yarkon River Peninsula, where it flows into the [[Mediterranean Sea]] near to the [[Reading Power Station]]. It finishes in [[Petah Tikva]]. The largest part of the park runs along the cities of [[Ramat Gan]] and [[Bnei Brak]]. The river finishes near to [[Rosh HaAyin]] in the [[Tel Afek (Antipatris)|Yarkon National Garden]]. The park has many facilities, such as sports facilities, botanical gardens, an [[aviary]], a water park, two outdoor concert venues and artificial lakes. The [[Ayalon River]] flows into the Yarkon River in the park after coming from a channel inside [[Highway 20 (Israel)|Road 20]]. == Sites in the park == * [[Tel Aviv Port]] * [[National Sport Center – Tel Aviv]] == Other websites == {{Commonscat|Yarkon Park}} * [http://www.parks.org.il/ParksENG/company_card.php3?CNumber=423617 Yarkon National Park at the ''Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090807175203/http://www.parks.org.il/ParksENG/company_card.php3?CNumber=423617 |date=2009-08-07 }} * [http://www.goisrael.com/Tourism_Eng/Articles/Sites/The+Yarkon+Park.htm Yarkon Park] {{Webarchive|url=https:/