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A warship was send to Jaffa so Tel Aviv could be build..
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Building Tel Aviv was not easy. The Jews had to struggle with corrupt local Ottoman authorities, local Arabs and Bedouin who occupied the site. A solution was forced with help from the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
This tour will take you to some of the dozens of neighborhoods that were build in Jaffa before the modern neighborhood of Tel Aviv was created. You will hear about its history and see what is left of it today. Some of them, like Sarona, the Yemenite quarter and Neve Tzedek are currently very popular.
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According to TLV Municipality and Wikipedia, Tel Aviv is founded on April 11, 1909 when the founders met for the lottery in the dunes. Why do they use an event and photo from 1908?
Though Tel Aviv was born in 1909, the story starts in the mid 19th Century, when an invention, or rather an addition to an invention created a new reality in the Holy Land. More visitors from the west and a growing influence of the major European powers in what used to be an economic backwater in the Ottoman Empire.
Because of Russian pogroms Jews started to emigrate to Palestine in larger numbers at the end of the 19th century. Starting agricultural settlements was not a big deal but starting a new modern city, based on western standards created problems with the Ottoman rulers.
The Jews needed some help, and this time it was Holland, that had no business in Palestine and had never send one of its warships that came to help.
Menno is a licensed tour guide in Israel.
During the two-year study to get his guide license, he became fascinated by the Dutch role in the creation of the Zionist Organization and the founding of Tel Aviv.
That warship was sent to protect the territory, formerly know as Kerem Jebali, of Jacobus Kann, a Jew from The Hague. He was a very successful banker and ardent Zionist with high connections. Tel Aviv was build on land that he had purchased.
In recent years, Menno found many documents about Kann's activities from various archives, but especially from the National Archive in The Hague .
Virtual tour of Caesarea, Caesarea Maritima, Israel. Very well prepared, excellent clear images, and very interesting. A nice experience ahead of an in-person visit! Definitely worth it to do a virtual overview, for large scale understanding of the site and history. Thank you! Hope to see you in person soon!
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4th virtual tour In January 2020 i came to Israel with a group and Amit was our tour Guide. We all fell in love with him as his passion, knowledge and love for his home land was so evident in his tour. When i got home and Amit started doing the virtual tours, i knew i wanted to "go" back to beautiful Israel and learn more. Every vitrual tour i have taken has gotten better and better and Amit makes the virtual experience come alive. I can't wait till i come back to the Holy Land in 2022 and I hope Amit will be our guide again.
Interesting story The online tour about the history of Tel Aviv learns about the birth of Tel Aviv in a revealing way you don’t find in the usual touristic information sources. So I can really recommend this online tour.
Highly Recommended! During this time of social distancing, It is really great to interact with Amit, our tour guide, and the other people that have joined the virtual tour on Zoom. Amit is very knowledgeable, open to questions, and conversation about the places he shows in the tour. He tries to keep it to the hour and is willing to stay after if there are additional questions. He will set up private virtual tours as well if the times that are advertised do not fit in your schedule. I have attended all of his virtual tours and highly recommend ALL of them. It is a bargain at $12.50. I applaud his creativity in figuring out how to support his family during this time that all tour guides in Israel are unemployed. Visiting these places bring the Bible to life for me and I know it will for you too. Come check it out.
Very interesting tour Amit is a knowledgeable guide and he prepared a very interesting presentation. I discovered very surprising facts about Jerusalem. I recommend him. I'm sure is ready for a walking tour.
Virtual Tour of Jaffa Amit did an excellent job. This virtual tour using the Zoom software platform was informative and entertaining. I'm sure that I would have given a better rating, but I had to leave before the tour was finished. My apologies to Amit.
A good intro to Jerusalem I really wanted to visit Jerusalem and having a good background of the place is interesting. Amit guided us with this tour online and I learned new things about Jerusalem. Thank you, Amit!
Amazing Thank you so much for the tour it was amazing, loved the way you showed Jerusalem with all the maps and pictures. Very interesting andI would love to see more tours!
Not to be missed Great virtual tour. Very informative and was given by a very knowledgeable guide Amit Musaei. I'll be back for more.
