...in the founding, on April 11, 1909,…

1909 CE

...in the founding, on April 11, 1909, of the first modern Jewish city in 1909, when the Jewish quarter of Jaffa has become overcrowded from an influx of immigrants.

The Zionist founders set out to build a European-style suburb, with straight, wide streets, parks, and modern urban facilities and services.

The new suburb, founded on the sand dunes north of Jaffa with the building of sixty houses, will be named the following year for Herzl's novel Altneuland (1902), the title of which is translated into Hebrew by Nahum Sokolow as Tel Aviv (tel, "hill"; aviv, "spring"; hence "Hill of Spring").

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