Haim Nissim Amzlag was a Jewish businessman and community leader during the Yishuv period.

Abraham Isaac Kook, known as Rav Kook, was an Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of pre-state Israel (in British Mandatory Palestine). He is considered one of the fathers of religious Zionism.

Born in Belarus to a Chabad Hasidic family, Zalman David Levontin was one of the pioneers of the first aliyah. He was one of the founders of Rishon Lezion and the Jewish Colonial Trust.

1864 - 1946. Solomon Florentin. Source: Wikipedia. Shlomo (Salomon) Yaakov Florentin was a contractor and entrepreneur of Thessaloniki...

1900 - 1988. Source: Wikipedia. Ziona Tager was an Israeli painter known for painting the Yishuv period and the country's first years....

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

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.

1861 - 1936. Entry of Field Marshall Allenby, Jerusalem, December 11, 1917. Source: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/matpc.00169/...

Throughout the 19th century, the city of Jaffa served as the main entry point to the land of Israel for Jews from around the world returning to the Land of Israel.

1861 -1936. Meïr Dizengoff was the first mayor of Tel Aviv, between 1921-1925, and from 1928 until his death in 1936. Born in Moldova in...

Menahem Sheikin was a Zionist leader and one of the founding figures of Tel Aviv.