Solomon Florentin
1864 - 1946. Shlomo (Salomon) Yaakov Florentin was a contractor and entrepreneur of Thessaloniki descent who founded the Florentin...
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The Land of Israel before the first Aliyah (1882)
Decades before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, the establishment of a Jewish state embodying Zionist ideology had already...
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Moshe Yitzhak Matalon
1872 - 1959. Moshe Yitzhak Matlon was one of Tel Aviv's founders. The first Matlon family members arrived in Israel from Iraq in 1817,...
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Hovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion)
Hovevei Zion is a collective name for Zionist associations founded in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century. These associations...
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Edmond James de Rothschild
1845 - 1934. Baron Edmond James de Rothschild was a French banker, philanthropist, and art collector born in France in 1845. His father -...
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Menahem Sheinkin
1871 - 1924. Menahem Sheikin was among Tel Aviv's founders. In 1900, after he completed his studies in Odessa (Ukraine), he was elected...
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