A city born at a seashell lottery

Israel Seashell Lottery Stamp (2008)

Last year, the Israel Post Office, issued a new stamp with a composition about the famous seashells lottery of 1909.
The lottery was held on the second day of Passover, April 11th 1909 in the afternoon. The participants (150 man, woman and children) gathered on the sand dunes, 3 kilometers north of Yafo. Arieh Akiva Weis, chairman of the lottery commitee, gathered 60 grey and 60 white shells. He wrote the name of the participants on the white shells, and the plot numbers on the grey shells. He paired a white and grey shell, assigning each family a plot. After the lottery, Avraham Soskin, took his famous photo.