Famous 'lottery' photo by Avraham Soskin on April 11th 1909 in the afternoon
A 50 segments special documentary Legend of the Dunes is made by film director Yaakov Gross, to celebrate Tel Aviv’s birthday (1909 – 2009). There are scenes of the Britsh High Commissioner Herbert Samuel (1920) seen visiting the Gymnasium Herzliya; scenes about the disarry at the dedication of the Great Synagoge (1933) at Allenby Street; the visit to Tel Aviv (1925) by Lord Balfour and General George Allenby (1933) and…the famous ‘lottery’ for building plot’s in the dunes, 3 km. north of Jaffa on April 11th 1909.
The documentary is made in cooperation with the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive.
Tags: 1909, 2009, allenby, balfour, birthday, dunes, gross, history, jaffa, legend of the dunes, lottery, photo, soskin, spielberg, tel aviv
