Warsaw Jews establish Rehovot (Hebrew: broad places,…

Warsaw Jews establish Rehovot (Hebrew: broad places, or room, from the biblical allusion in Genesis 26:22) a city on the coastal plain south-southwest of Jaffa, in the center of Palestine's's most productive citrus belt, in 1899.

Rehovot will soon become economically self-sufficient, owing to its prosperous citrus groves, and will absorb many immigrant agricultural laborers.