Maldives is 5.7 times larger than Tel Aviv.
Area: 298 km2 World Factbook
Population: 393,595 (July 2014) World Factbook
Maldives, officially the Republic of the Maldives and also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean–Arabian Sea area, consisting of a double chain of twenty-six atolls, oriented north-south, that lie between Minicoy Island and the Chagos Archipelago. Wikipedia
Area: 52 km2 calculated
Tel Aviv is the second most populous city in Israel, and makes up the largest part of the city municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo, which has a population of 414,600. Wikipedia