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One of the Founders and First Mayor of Tel-Aviv
The Reading and Signing of the Israeli Declaration of Independence
was in the former home of Meir Dizengoff
DIZENGOFF, Meir. (1861-1936). Settled in Palestine in 1905. Russian-born pioneer in the first Jewish labor movement, developed the first industry in Palestine. Zionist leader as early as 1885 when he was arrested as a Russian revolutionary. He championed the founding of a Jewish homeland in Israel over Uganda and was among those in 1904 who began purchasing land near Jaffa that would later become Tel-Aviv. One of the Founders of the City of Tel-Aviv (1906). He laid the cornerstone (1909) and was the first Mayor of Tel-Aviv, the first Palestine Jewish City. D.S., 4”x6”. One page, September 3, 1935. Tel Aviv City Incorporated, order to pay 24 English Pounds. Signed by Dizengoff across a Palestine stamp as mayor. Rubber stamp on document indicates this order was paid. Very scarce.........$275.00
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