Article: How Tel Aviv became what it is

Daniel Ben-Tal
Jerusalem Post
04-14-2006
Headline: How Tel Aviv became what it is
Byline: Daniel Ben-Tal
Edition; Metro Israel
Section: Features
Page: 06

Friday, April 14, 2006 -- Ninety-seven years ago on April 11th, several dozen Jews gathered on a deserted sand dune northeast of Jaffa to demarcate the first Jewish city in 2,000 years. The members of the Ahuzat Bayit ("homestead") housing association held a picnic at the site, then a lottery to subdivide the 50 dunams between them.

In order to allay suspicions of favoritism, Akiva Aryeh Weiss, a prosperous jeweler originally from Lodz, Poland, devised a foolproof system: He gathered black and white shells from the beach, marked the members' ...

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