Construction took half a million toy bricks and days of work. Thousands of people at more than two dozen community organizations around Tel Aviv worked from Dec. 12 to Dec. 24 to build sections of the tower, using colorful square blocks decorated with their groups’ insignia. The sections were then stacked together in Rabin Square in the city center over the last two days.

The names of some participating organizations were written on the tower in Hebrew or Arabic.