People and places
The stories of Tel Aviv.
Homes, streets and memorial sites.
The people who left something of themselves here.
Otte Wallish
The man who designed the Declaration of Independence, the first coins and stamps of the state, without you even knowing who he was. Meet the brilliant designer who gave young Israel its visual identity and remained in the shadows.
Uri Avnery
A fighter in Samson's Foxes who became the terror of the Israeli establishment, a tireless advocate of peace, and a symbol of combative journalism. The story of "the regime's number-one enemy," who refused to be silent even when attempts were made on his life.
Alexander Penn
The bohemian who burned through Tel Aviv nights with a shot of vodka, fervent communist ideology, and tempestuous affairs. How did the Soviet rebel become one of the greatest Hebrew poets of the homeland, whose songs we all still sing today?
Ephraim Kishon
The Holocaust survivor who arrived in Israel without a word of Hebrew and taught an entire country how to laugh at itself. The phenomenon who turned Israeli bureaucracy into brilliant satire that conquered stages around the world.
Gotthilf Wagner
One of the leaders of the Templer movement, which sought to prepare the land for the coming of the Messiah, but over the years he came to openly support the Nazis.
Chaim Hissin
The taciturn, unpretentious Bilu pioneer who rode his donkey between Gedera and Rishon LeZion, and went from frustrated farmer to the beloved, devoted doctor of the pioneers of the First and Second Aliyahs.
Yigal Mossinson
A Palmach fighter, a man of secrets, and a brilliant inventor who drew on the worlds of espionage to create the legendary Hasamba. The creator who stirred generations of imaginations with a single secret society in the Electric Cave.
Yonatan Ratosh
The brilliant poet who sought to sever the bonds of exile, erase the concept of "Jewishness," and recreate the Hebrew nation. The leader of the Canaanite movement, whose books and poetry sparked an intellectual storm that refuses to die down.
Joseph Haim Brenner
Stormy, tormented, unfiltered, and unwilling to ingratiate himself - the writer who tore away the masks of Zionist society at the height of its innocence. Meet the singular creator whose turbulent life was cut short in a brutal massacre that shook the entire Jewish community in the Land of Israel.
Yosef Yekutieli
The man who conceived the idea of the Maccabiah and personally measured the Biblical marathon route from Shiloh to Rosh HaAyin, to prove that the spirit of Jewish sport predated even ancient Greece.
Yehezkel Danin
The entrepreneur who abandoned the Diaspora surname Suchowolski, drew the first lot in Ahuzat Bayit, and established a Hebrew kindergarten. The pioneer who understood that a new land demanded a new language, advanced Hebrew education, and urban roots.
Jacob Elhanan Litvinsky
The bold entrepreneur who headed a dynasty that turned sand dunes into thriving cities and acquired land from Jaffa to Samaria. The fascinating story of a family of pioneering businesspeople who left an indelible mark on the map of settlement in the Land of Israel.
Yaakov Granek ("The Blond Dov")
Lehi’s daring operations commander, who terrorized the British with face-to-face raids until he fell in an assault on the Iraq Suwaydan outpost in the Negev.
Isaac Leib Goldberg
The quiet Zionist philanthropist who opened his wallet and personally financed the purchase of the JNF's first plot of land. The man who acquired the land on Mount Scopus and redeemed land without seeking any glory or title for himself.
Lea Gottlieb
The woman who survived the inferno in Europe with her two daughters and turned a modest dream into the Gottex fashion empire. How did a determined Israeli designer conquer the world's most prestigious runways with swimwear?
Leah Goldberg
She called herself "not a beautiful woman" and suffered through unrequited, unfulfilled loves, yet transformed that tormenting loneliness into the heights of Hebrew poetry.
Meir Dizengoff
The man who rode his white mare across the desolate dunes of the Jaffa shore, and lived to see the dream of "Ahuzat Bayit" become the bustling first Hebrew city.
Moshe Abarbanel
The visionary Tel Avivian who brought the magic of silent films to the city's sand dunes and founded the legendary Eden Cinema. The man who replaced streetlamps with the light of the projector and taught the Hebrew community to dream before the big screen.
Moshe Novomeysky
The engineer from Siberia who looked at the still waters of the Dead Sea and saw in them a gold mine of essential natural resources. The man who deciphered secret reports, battled British bureaucracy, and built the potash works that brought life to the wilderness.
Amos Yarkoni
The Bedouin fighter who volunteered for the IDF, overcame severe injuries, and became a legendary tracker and the celebrated commander of the Shaked Reconnaissance Unit.
Clorinda Minor
A leader of a Christian sect who believed that the coming of Jesus was bound up with the Jews' return to the Land of Israel, and her connection to a writer and a famous story
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.
S.Y. Agnon
Long before he became a Nobel laureate whose name is emblazoned on every street corner, his heart was broken by a secret, unfulfilled love for a daughter of the wealthy Shlush family.
Sarah Ita Felman
The ultra-Orthodox widow who refused to give in to hardship and built a flourishing orchard with her own hands in the wilderness. With iron determination, she protected her family and rightly became known as the "Mother of Hebrew Citrus Growing."
Tirza Atar
Alterman's daughter, who carried the weight of a great creative legacy on her shoulders and wrote more than 500 songs that became engraved in our souls. A life of beauty, rare musical talent, and quiet tragedy that ended in a painful fall from a balcony.
32 place links in this collection
- Tomb of Amos Yarkoni, Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery, Moshe Sneh Road, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- 15 Arnon Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- 5 Bograshov Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Rokach Street 2, corner of Shlush Street 35, Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv
- Yitzker House (site of the murder), 17 Kibbutz Galuyot Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Brenner House, 12 Kibbutz Galuyot Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Tomb of Yosef Haim Brenner, Trumpeldor Cemetery, 19 Trumpeldor Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Independence Hall (Dizengoff House), 16 Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Tomb of Meir Dizengoff, Trumpeldor Cemetery, 19 Trumpeldor Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Dr. Hissin House, 14 Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Grave of Dr. Haim Hissin, Trumpeldor Cemetery, 19 Trumpeldor Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Yosef Yekutieli Street, Northern Port Area, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Yonatan Ratosh House, 2 Alexander Yannai Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Moshe Abarbanel House, 3 HaGilboa Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Tomb of Yehezkel Danin, Trumpeldor Cemetery, 19 Trumpeldor Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Tomb of Sarah Ita Feldman, Trumpeldor Cemetery, 19 Trumpeldor Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Dizengoff House, 16 Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Uri Avnery House, 10A Ruppin Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Alexander Penn House, 211 Dizengoff Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Yigal Mossinson House, 61 Sokolov Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Ephraim Kishon House, 48 HaMitnadev Street, Afeka Neighborhood, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Grave of Ephraim Kishon, Trumpeldor Cemetery, 19 Trumpeldor Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Gottex Factory, HaGdud HaIvri Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Tomb of Yitzhak Leib Goldberg, Trumpeldor Cemetery, 19 Trumpeldor Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Yaakov Elhanan Litvinsky House, 22 Ahad Ha'am Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Tomb of Yaakov Elhanan Litvinsky, Trumpeldor Cemetery, 19 Trumpeldor Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Tomb of Moshe Novomeysky, Trumpeldor Cemetery, 19 Trumpeldor Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Gotthilf Wagner House - corner of Eilat Street and Shlush Street, Tel Aviv
- Sarona neighborhood, Tel Aviv
- Shvach Mofet School - 7 HaMasger Street, Tel Aviv
- Allenby Street 103, Tel Aviv
- Hill Square, Tel Aviv