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Tel Aviv is the Hebrew title of Theodor Herzl’s 1902 novel Altneuland ("Old New Land"), as translated from German by Nahum Sokolow.Sokolow had adopted the name of a Mesopotamian site near the city of Babylon mentioned in Ezekiel: "Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Abib [Tel Aviv], that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Aerial view of old Jaffa Aerial view of old Jaffa and port with Tel Aviv behind Jaffa, also called Japho, Joppa or Joppe in English, is an ancient Levantine port city which is part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, located in its southern part. The city sits atop a naturally elevated outcrop on the ...
Hebrew-language names were coined for the place-names of Palestine throughout different periods under the British Mandate; after the establishment of Israel following the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight and 1948 Arab–Israeli War; and subsequently in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel in 1967.
Nahum Benari, Eliezer Knaani (editors), Joseph Trumpeldor: His Work and Era, (Tel Aviv): Culture and Education, (1960) The Galilean Lion: 1920–1945, [Jerusalem]: Department of Culture and Propaganda of Beitar in Israel, 1945; Joseph Trumpeldor: 18 Years Since His Heroic Death at Tel Hai, 1920 – 11 Adar – 1938, Tel Hai Foundation in Israel ...
He was killed by gunshot while walking with his wife, Sima, on the beach in Tel Aviv. Arlosoroff's funeral was the largest in the history of Mandatory Palestine, with an estimated 70,000 to 100,000 mourners. [71] The death of Arlosoroff greatly aggravated political relations within the Zionist movement. [72]
This name comes from Ezekiel 3:15 and means tell—an ancient mound formed when a town is built on its own debris for thousands of years—of spring. The name was later applied to the new town built outside Jaffa that became Tel Aviv-Yafo, the second-largest city in Israel. The nearby city to the north, Herzliya, was named in honour of Herzl.
It should be remembered that there are certain coloniae subject to the Italian Law. ...The colony of Ptolemais, which is situated between Phoenicia and Palestine, has nothing but the name of a colony. ...In Palestine there are two colonies, those of Caesarea and Aelia Capitolina; but neither of these enjoy Italian privileges. [129]
Meir Dizengoff (Hebrew: מֵאִיר דִּיזֶנְגּוֹף; born Meer Yankelevich Dizengof [Russian: Меер Янкелевич Дизенгоф]; 25 February 1861 – 23 September 1936) was a Zionist leader and politician and the founder and first mayor of Tel Aviv (1911–1922 as head of town planning, 1922–1936 as mayor).