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Timeline Of Tel Aviv
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tel Aviv, Israel. __NOTOC__ 19th century 20th century: 1900s1910s1920s 1930s1940s1950s1960s 1970s1980s 1990s 21st century: 2000s2010s 2020s 19th century * 1886 – Neve-Tzedek was founded. * 1890 – Neve Shalom was founded. * 1896 – Yafa Nof was founded. * 1899 – Achva was founded. 20th century 1900s * 1904 – Ohel Moshe was founded. * 1906 – Kerem HaTeimanim was founded. * 1909 – Tel Aviv founded near Jaffa. 1910s * 1917 – April: Tel Aviv and Jaffa deportation. 1920s * 1921 – Meir Dizengoff becomes mayor. * 1925 – David Bloch-Blumenfeld becomes mayor. 1930s * 1930s – White City built. * 1932 ** Tel Aviv Museum of Art established. ** Maccabiah Stadium opens. * 1936 – Israel Rokach becomes mayor. * 1938 – Tel Aviv Zoo opens. * 1939 – ''Yedioth Ahronoth'' newspaper begins publication. 1940s * 1941 – Tel Aviv Central Bus Station opens. * 1948 – Population: 244,614. 1950s * 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Neve Tzedek
Neve Tzedek ( he, נְוֵה צֶדֶק, נווה צדק, ''lit.'' Abode of Justice) is a neighborhood located in southwestern Tel Aviv, Israel. It was the first Jewish neighborhood to be built outside the old city of the ancient port of Jaffa. Originally it was a Sephardi Jewish neighbourhood. Since the 1990s, rundown properties have been restored and it is now a fashionable quarter of Tel Aviv. Name Literally, Neve Tzedek means Abode of Justice, but it is also one of the names for God (). History Neve Tzedek was established by a group of Sephardi Jewish families seeking to move outside of over-crowded Jaffa. Notably, the family of Aharon Chelouche moved to the area in 1883 with some 50 families following suit in the next few years. The neighbourhood was officially established in 1887. Additional neighborhoods grew up around Neve Tzedek, among them Neve Shalom (1890), Yefe Nof (1897) and Batei Feingold (1904). The new quarter featured low-rise buildings along narrow stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Rokach
Israel Rokach, Honorary CBE ( he, ישראל רוקח; December 31, 1896 – September 13, 1959) was an Israeli politician, Knesset member, and fourth mayor of Tel Aviv from November 15, 1936 until April 13, 1953. Biography Israel Rokach was born in 1896 in Neve Tzedek, then part of Jaffa. His mother was Rachel Rokach (born in 1863). His father, Shimon Rokach (born in 1863), a journalist, was one of the founders of the neighborhood. His grandfather, Israel Beck, revived the Hebrew printing industry in Palestine. Rokach attended a cheder and then an Alliance Israélite Universelle school. He traveled to Switzerland, where he continued his education at a high school in Lausanne and then studied electrical engineering at the Zürich polytechnic. In 1920, Israel Rokach moved to the United Kingdom, where he worked as an electrical engineer. In 1922, he returned to Jaffa, where he opened a store for electrical supplies. In 1933, Rokach married Esther Epstein. Rokach died in 1959 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maccabiah Stadium
The Maccabiah Stadium ( he, אצטדיון המכביה ''Itztadion HaMakabiya'') was a football stadium on the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv, Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated .... Maccabiah Stadium was built in 1932 for the first Maccabiah Games and was filled to capacity for the opening ceremony. It was used by Maccabi Tel Aviv until 1969, when the team moved to the Bloomfield Stadium. See also * Levant Fair * Sports in Israel References {{Maccabiah Games 1932 establishments in Mandatory Palestine 1960s disestablishments in Israel Sports venues in Tel Aviv Defunct football venues in Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. Stadium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tel Aviv Museum Of Art
Tel Aviv Museum of Art ( he, מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות ''Muzeon Tel Aviv Leomanut'') is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and contemporary art from Israel and around the world. History The Tel Aviv Museum of Art was established in 1932 in a building that was the home of Tel Aviv's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff. The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art opened in 1959. Planning for a new building began in 1963 when the museum's collections of modern and contemporary art began to outgrow the premises. Construction commenced in 1966 but stopped for two years due to shortage of funds. The new museum moved to its current location on King Saul Avenue in 1971. Another wing was added in 1999 and the Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden was established. The museum also contains "The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Art Education Center", opened since 1988.The museum houses a comprehensive collection of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White City (Tel Aviv)
The White City ( he, העיר הלבנה, ''Ha-Ir ha-Levana''; ar, المدينة البيضاء ''Al-Madinah al-Baydha’a'') is a collection of over 4,000 buildings in Tel Aviv from the 1930s built in a unique form of the International Style, commonly known as Bauhaus, by Jewish architects who fled to the British Mandate of Palestine from Germany (and other Central and East European countries with German cultural influences) after the rise to power of the Nazis. Tel Aviv has the largest number of buildings in the Bauhaus/International Style of any city in the world. Preservation, documentation, and exhibitions have brought attention to Tel Aviv's collection of 1930s architecture. In 2003, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed Tel Aviv's ''White City'' a World Cultural Heritage site, as "an outstanding example of new town planning and architecture in the early 20th century." The citation recognized the unique adaptation of mode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bloch-Blumenfeld
David Bloch-Blumenfeld ( he, דוד בלוך-בלומנפלד; 1880 – 27 November 1947), sometimes simply David Bloch, was one of the leaders of the Labor Zionism movement in Mandate Palestine and mayor of Tel Aviv in 1925–27. Moshav Dovev in northern Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ... is named after him. External links *https://web.archive.org/web/20110721142932/http://www.ahuzatbait.org.il/Index.asp?ArticleID=234&CategoryID=213&Page=1 1880 births 1947 deaths Jews from the Russian Empire Jewish mayors Jewish socialists Jews in Mandatory Palestine Poale Zion politicians Mayors of Tel Aviv-Yafo Officers of the Order of the White Lion Burials at Trumpeldor Cemetery {{TelAviv-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meir Dizengoff
Meir Dizengoff ( he, מֵאִיר דִּיזֶנְגּוֹף, russian: Меер Янкелевич Дизенгоф ''Meer Yankelevich Dizengof'', 25 February 1861 – 23 September 1936) was a Zionism, Zionist leader and politician and the founder and first mayor of Tel Aviv (1911-1922 as head of town planning, 1922-1936 as mayor). Dizengoff's actions in History of Palestine#Restoration of Ottoman control, Ottoman Palestine and the British Empire, British Mandate for Palestine helped lead to the creation of the Israel, State of Israel. David Ben-Gurion declared Israeli independence in 1948 at Dizengoff's residence in Tel Aviv. Dizengoff House is now Israel's Independence Hall (Israel), Independence Hall. Early life Meir Dizengoff was born on Shushan Purim, 25 February 1861 in the village of Echimăuţi, Ekimovtsy near Orhei, Bessarabia. In 1878, his family moved to Chişinău, Kishinev, where he graduated from high school and studied at the polytechnic school. In 1882, he voluntee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tel Aviv And Jaffa Deportation
Tel Aviv and Jaffa deportation was the forcible deportation on April 6, 1917, of the entire Jewish civilian population of Jaffa, including Tel Aviv, by the authorities of the Ottoman Empire in Palestine. Jews who were affected by the deportation were unable to return to their homes until the British conquest, in the summer of 1918. 14% of the Jewish population left the area for Egypt. History Before World War I Unlike the Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians, the Jews were treated comparatively leniently by the Ottoman Empire, because Jews had sought refuge in the empire due to Bayezid II's welcoming policy. The Zionist leader Theodor Herzl even asked the then-Ottoman Sultan, Abdul Hamid II, to acquire Palestine and fulfil the promise of returning the Jews to Zion. The Sultan declined Herzl's request, but he agreed to allow the Jews to establish settlements in Palestine, where they would pay taxes to the Ottoman authorities. However, as Turkish nationalism began to rise in the late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaffa
Jaffa, in Hebrew Yafo ( he, יָפוֹ, ) and in Arabic Yafa ( ar, يَافَا) and also called Japho or Joppa, the southern and oldest part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, is an ancient port city in Israel. Jaffa is known for its association with the biblical stories of Jonah, Solomon and Saint Peter as well as the mythological story of Andromeda and Perseus, and later for its oranges. Today, Jaffa is one of Israel's mixed cities, with approximately 37% of the city being Arab. Etymology The town was mentioned in Egyptian sources and the Amarna letters as ''Yapu''. Mythology says that it is named for Yafet (Japheth), one of the sons of Noah, the one who built it after the Flood. The Hellenist tradition links the name to ''Iopeia'', or Cassiopeia, mother of Andromeda. An outcropping of rocks near the harbor is reputed to have been the place where Andromeda was rescued by Perseus. Pliny the Elder associated the name with Iopa, daughter of Aeolus, god of the wind. The medieval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerem HaTeimanim
Kerem HaTeimanim ( he, כֶּרֶם הַתֵּימָנִים, lit. "Vineyard of the Yemenites") is a neighborhood in the center of Tel Aviv, Israel. The neighborhood is adjacent to the Carmel Market. History Kerem HaTeimanim was established in 1906 by Yemenite-Jewish immigrants on lands which belonged to Aharon Chelouche, Yosef Moyal, and Haim Amzaleg. It was a poor neighborhood, with many of the single-story homes built with cheap materials such as wooden beams and tin roofing. In 1926, the WIZO women's volunteer organization opened an infant welfare center in the neighborhood operated by two nurses sent to England to study healthcare for young mothers and babies. In the early 1970s, Lehakat Tzlilei Kerem HaTeimanim (Sounds of the Vineyard Band) was formed by Kerem HaTeimanim guitarist Moshe ben Mush and singer Yosef " Daklon" Levi, a band that achieved fame in south Tel Aviv and beyond. Today, Kerem HaTeimanim is in the process of gentrification. Many of the original resi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohel Moshe (neighborhood)
Ohel Moshe was a Jewish neighborhood which located Eastern-Northern to Jaffa, established in 1906. it was founded by Moshe Asulin, Moshe Elbaz and Moshe Attia, therefore its name. The neighborhood was inhabited mainly by Maghrebi Jews, with small numbers of Ashkenazi Jews and Yemenite Jews. It grew quickly and by 1922 its population was 936 inhabitants, living in 82 houses. In the 1920s, it has merged with Tel Aviv municipality. See also *Neighborhoods of Tel Aviv This list of the neighborhoods of Tel Aviv, is arranged geographically from north to south, then from west to east. Northwest Residential * Azorei Hen (אזורי חן), ''Areas of Grace'' * Kokhav HaTzafon (כוכב הצפון), '' Northern Star' ... References Ashkenazi Jewish culture in Tel Aviv Neighborhoods of Tel Aviv History of Tel Aviv 1906 establishments in Ottoman Syria North African-Jewish culture in Israel Yemeni-Jewish culture in Israel {{TelAviv-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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