Mayors of Tel Aviv-Yafo - Meir Dizengoff, Roni Milo, Mordechai Namir, Ron Huldai, Yehomeir Dizengoff, Roni Milo, Mordechai Namir, Ron Huldai, Yehoshua Rabinovitz, Shlomo Lahat, David Bloch-Blumenfeld Shua Rabinovitz, Shlomo Lahat, David Bloch-Blumenfeld (Paperback)

Chapters: Meir Dizengoff, Roni Milo, Mordechai Namir, Ron Huldai, Yehoshua Rabinovitz, Shlomo Lahat, David Bloch-Blumenfeld. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Meir Dizengoff (Hebrew:, Russian:, 25 February 1861- 23 September 1936) was a Zionist politician and the first mayor of Tel Aviv. A statue of Meir Dizengoff riding his horse, located on Rothschild Boulevard, Tel AvivMeir Dizengoff was born in 1861 in the village of Akimovici near Orgeyev, Bessarabia. In 1878, his family moved to Kishinev, where he graduated from high school and studied at the polytechnic school. In 1882, he volunteered in the Imperial Russian Army, serving in Zhitomir (now in the northwestern Ukraine) until 1884. There he first met Zina Brenner, whom he married in the early 1890s. After his military service, Dizengoff remained in Odessa, where he became involved in the Narodnaya Volya underground. In 1885, he was arrested for insurgency. In Odessa, he met Leon Pinsker, Ahad Haam and others, and joined the Hovevei Zion movement. Upon his release from prison, Dizengoff returned to Kishinev and founded the Bessarabian branch of Hovevei Zion, which he represented at the 1887 conference. He left Kishinev in 1889 to study in Paris. While studying chemical engineering at the University of Paris, he met Edmond James de Rothschild, who sent him to Ottoman-ruled Palestine to establish a glass factory which would supply bottles for Rothschild's wineries. Dizengoff opened the factory in Tantura in 1882, but it proved unsuccessful due to impurities in the sand, and Dizengoff soon returned to Kishinev. There he met Theodor Herzl and became his ardent follower, despite having been strongly opposed to the British Uganda Program promoted by Herzl at the Sixth Zionist Congress. In 1905, s...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1969868