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A city born at a seashell lottery
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. … Read entire article »
Filed under: centennial, stamps
‘Tel-Aviv, then and now’
The famous ‘seashell’ lottery on April 11th 1909 has became an emblem of Tel Aviv’s mythology and history and the picture that was made about this event by Avraham Soskin. On April 17, next week, the descendants of the founders will gather in the ‘Charles Clore Park’ (see below) to reenact this famous photograph, together with descendants of the city builders and prominent figures alongside thousands of residents. On of the decedants of the founders (his grandparents) is Jeremy Ben-Ami, living today in Washington. So next week, Jeremy will come to Tel Aviv to take part in this photo shoot. In the ‘International Herald Tribune’ of today, April 10, Jeremy Ben-Ami wrote an article under the headline: “Tel-Aviv, Then and Now”. [edit: The location for the Centennial Photo has been changed. The NEW LOCATION … Read entire article »
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Legend in the Dunes
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. … Read entire article »