Sunday, July 5, 2015

Independence Hall, Tel Aviv

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Dizengoff,  Tel Aviv's first mayor,  loved to ride his horse down the local streets in the 1920s and 30s.


Next to the new (2009) statue on Rothschild Boulevard is the former house of Meir and Zina Dizengoff.
Today it is a museum commemorating the place where David Ben-Gurion signed the Declaration of Independence and declared Israel a State on May 14, 1948.
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14 comments:

  1. I love the photos you post , always interesting .
    Alice

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  2. Always special visiting you Dina

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  3. I imagine there wasn't all that traffic and buildings back then. :- )

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  4. I loved spending time in the museum and looking at the old photos, as you can see in http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/independence-museum-in-tel-aviv.html But I didn't have a photo of Dizongoff on horse back.

    Great link, thanks.

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  5. Thanks for the link to your post, Hels. Nice to see a photo of the museum inside. I still have not visited there.

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  6. I didn't know he was an urban horse rider, surely he really deserves this monument!

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  7. I can almost see him on his horse riding down the street - what a time it must have been!

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  8. Your blog seems to me so interesting. Love from Poland Gosia

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  9. Shalom Gosia in Poland. :) You can go to the bottom of my blog and find Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
    Click and it will give you choices of how to subscribe to the blog feed.
    Or you can do what I do. Just add http://jerusalemhillsdailyphoto.blogspot.co.il/ to the Reading List on your own Blogspot blog. That notifies you every time a new post is published.

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  10. Dina, I did it you are on my list. Have a nice evening!!See you soon

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  11. Gosia, great, welcome! You are on my list too.

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  12. Ciel, I wish! You know, I have a 2009 blog post of a horse-drawn Alte Sachen cart on Ben-Gurion Blvd. in Tel Aviv:
    http://jerusalemhillsdailyphoto.blogspot.co.il/2009/04/alte-sachen-tel-aviv-style.html
    Soon after that, such wagons were banned from the streets of Tel Aviv.

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  13. Fitting to have that as a museum, Dina!

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