People and places
The stories of Rehovot.
Homes, streets and memorial sites.
The people who left something of themselves here.
Erich Mendelsohn
The legendary architect who fled the Nazis, leaving behind the largest architectural practice in Europe. The genius who brought modernism to Palestine and designed some of the most magnificent buildings in the Middle East.
Bruria Kaufman
The brilliant mathematician who worked closely with Albert Einstein in his final years and solved equations that captivated the world. The researcher who left the pinnacle of American academia to help build the Weizmann Institute and Israeli science.
Batya Makov
The independent, determined woman who proved that initiative and hard work are not the preserve of men alone. She amassed her fortune with her own two hands and became one of the most influential figures in the early days of settlement.
Deborah Teitelbaum
The dedicated scientist who labored for years in the laboratory on the molecular research that led to the drug Copaxone. The researcher behind the great Israeli medical achievement that gave millions of people with multiple sclerosis around the world a new lease on life.
Rabbi David Israel Tzairei (Al-Sharia)
They were daring pioneers who made the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee bloom, yet their story has almost entirely disappeared from the pages of history. Meet the community that fought stubbornly for its land just before it was nearly forgotten.
Lord Israel Ziv
The lone refugee who built a multi-billion-pound empire through the Marks & Spencer chain, and chose to devote his entire fortune to founding WIZO, the Weizmann Institute, and the Tel Mond bloc.
Moshe Smilansky
The man of the soil from Rehovot, who held the plow handle in one hand and the writer’s pen in the other. The author who left us The Family of the Soil and spent his life fighting for good neighborly relations, justice, and Jewish labor.
Nechama Pukhachevsky
The woman who rebelled against the conventions of the colony, fought for equal rights for women, and wrote daring Hebrew literature. The first Eretz-Israeli woman writer refused to remain on the margins of history and paved the way for all women.
Rachel the Poet
She arrived in the country as a romantic tourist on her way to Paris, but fell desperately in love with it and became a pioneer who chose words and fields, and went on to become a poet and a national myth.
11 place links in this collection
- Marmorek neighborhood, Rehovot
- Weizmann Institute, Rehovot
- Broida House, 56 Menuha ve-Nahala Street, Rehovot
- Grave of Batya Makov, Founders' Cemetery (Tar'an), Rehovot
- Yaakov Street 11, Rehovot
- Weizmann House (designed by Erich Mendelsohn), Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
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- Tomb of Moshe Smilansky, Teran Cemetery (the Founders), Rehovot
- Weizmann Institute, Rehovot
- Weizmann Institute, Rehovot