1784 - 1862. Judith Montefiore (born Cohen) was a British linguist, musician, travel writer, philanthropist, and wife of Moshe Montefiore...

David Florentin was a Jewish journalist and one of the founders of the Zionist movement in Thessaloniki. He was the first Jewish representative from Greece to participate in the World Zionist Congress (the 11th Congress, convened in 1913 in Vienna).

Shlomo (Salomon) Yaakov Florentin was a contractor and entrepreneur of Thessaloniki descent who founded the Florentin neighborhood in Tel Aviv in the 1930s.

The Israeli flag was originally the banner of the World Zionist Organization and was first adopted as a flag during the first Zionist Congress in 1897 (Basel, Switzerland).

Moshe Montefiore, an English Sephardic Jew born in Italy, was a financier, banker, Zionist activist, and philanthropist. He married Judith Cohen, sister-in-law of Nathan Meyer Rothschild (Edmond James de Rothschild's uncle).

During the second part of the 19th century, Jerusalem started to expand, and new neighborhoods were built outside the old city after thousands of years in which the residents of Jerusalem lived between the old walls.

Decades before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, the establishment of a Jewish state embodying Zionist ideology had already started.

The Nahalat Binyamin Association of Jaffa (mainly made up of craftsmen) wanted to establish another neighborhood outside Jaffa, while the Ahuzat Bait Association settled one in 1909.

Ha-Melits was a Hebrew newspaper published in the Russian Empire between 1860 and 1904. It was one of the first Hebrew-language...

Moshe Yitzhak Matlon was one of Tel Aviv's founders. The Matlon family first arrived in Israel from Iraq in 1817, over 200 years ago, playing a pioneering role in establishing the Jewish community in Jaffa.