Tel Aviv is Israel's largest manufacturing city. Its diamond-cutting and polishing industry is the largest in the world and is a big source of foreign exchange.
According to the book OECD Territorial Reviews, the Tel Aviv-Yafo metropolitan area, located on Israel's western seaboard, is the central hub of commercial and high-tech activity in Israel. The city occupies a key geographical and strategic position as the dominant entry point to Israel for people, capital and trade. The city is the core of Israel's largest metropolitan area which covers around 2.65 million people.
Employment in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area has grown steadily in recent years. The majority of this employment is in financial and business services, education and health, wholesale and retailing and the other production industries which include manufacturing. per capita incomes and growth rates in the Tel Aviv-Yafo metropolitan area are on average higher that those for Israel as a whole.
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