Nahalat Shiva (translated as “the land of the seven”) takes its name from its founders: seven young men of Jerusalem, descendants of families deeply rooted in the Jewish presence of the Old City. Driven by the conviction that the command to settle the Land of Israel must be fulfilled, they set out together to build - stone by stone - the Jerusalem of tomorrow.

Aliya Eele BeTamar was an aliya of Jews from Yemen to the Land of Israel in 1881-1882. The Jewish year of their Aliya, תרמ"ב, gave to the alya its name (תרמ"ב --> בתמר). The name is also a direct quote from the verse "I said, I will climb up to the Tamar" from the book of Songs of Songs.

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.