One of the signs placed around the water tower in the Moledet neighborhood, telling the story of the neighborhood.
The shape of the sign is like the shape of a water tower.
The water tower was photographed that day
Click for a larger image Translation of the text on the sign:
Moledet neighborhood The Moledet neighborhood was established on Passover 1934. About ninety families of Yemeni immigrants settled in the area. They established a number of wooden barracks, a synagogue and a mikveh tehara.
For the first few years the settlers struggled with isolation and alienation. In the sea of sands that surrounded them, in heavy scarcity and unemployment.
The lands of the area. Purchased by the "Mizrach" company in 1930. The buyers wanted to establish a city in the sand area that would be called "Menora". Many plots were sold to Jews abroad, these never built their home here.
In the "Moledet " and "Azura" was the training center of the "Hagana" organization, in many houses there were weapons slicks.
Due to the slow development. The isolation and difficult living conditions were slowly abandoned in their hometowns, and the neighborhood disappeared from the view of the city of Holon.
[Photo: Concordia Skin Processing Factory (Holon Archive and Museum)]
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