The sign was placed as part of Yad Ben-Zvis "Israel Album" project, and the Jerusalem and Heritage Ministry, a project in which historical images from the past of the State of Israel are preserved.
Next to the sign is another sign with pictures from the farm nursery:
Poalot Farm Nursery, 1920s
The Shoshana and Asher Halevi Photo Archive, Yad Ben-Zvi
Click for a larger image The two signs are on the fence of the "Ben-Zvi hut", the place that was the residence of the presidents of Israel during the time of Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Click for a larger image Translation of the text on the sign:
Logo of the "Israel Album" project
Rehavia is visible
First photo on the album: The flower hut in the Ganim neighborhood In 1924, the Rehavia Gardens neighborhood was established, and Rachel Yanait established the Poalot Farm. The pioneers established a nursery that provided vegetation to the garden neighborhoods, agricultural localities and monasteries in the Jerusalem area. And so, next to the mansions of the Gardens neighborhood, a socialist agricultural center was established where women worked for their friends. In the 1920s, barracks were erected on the site. Most of them were erected overnight, to establish facts on the ground, as they did not conform to the building rules that were valid in the Gardens neighborhood. In the 1940s, the study farm moved to Talpiot, and most of the area in Rehavia was transferred to the Workers Council, which established the Hechalutzot House there.
The nursery continued to operate in Rehavia across about one-third of the original area. The flower hut continued to be used for the sale of the nurserys produce, and especially flowers were sold to the residents of Rehavia on Fridays.
In 1953, after Yitzhak Ben - Zvi was elected president, the nursery garden was converted into the presidents residence and a presidential hut was erected there. In 1972, the Presidents House moved to its new residence in the Talbiyeh neighborhood, and the Presidents hut and the Presidents offices were the home of the Yad Ben - Zvi Institution. Beit Halutzot was home to the Womens League for Israel.
In 2003, the house passed into the hands of Yad Ben-Zvi. According to the plan of architect Ada Carmi-Melamed, the house underwent a conservation process and was integrated into the Yad Ben-Zvi complex. The building is being preserved and renovated and currently houses the School of Jerusalem Studies.
In 2010, during construction work, the flower hut was dismantled and was preserved by the Antiquities Authority. After the completion of the conservation work, it was installed as a permanent display at the edge of the compound, facing the Beit Hachalutzot compound and its back to the Kuzari Garden.
In 2013 in a snowstorm the nearby pine tree collapsed and hit the hut. The Council for the Preservation of Heritage Sites in Israel has mobilized to help preserve the hut anew. Following the completion of the preservation of the Kuzari Garden by the Jerusalem Municipality and its return to the public, Yad Ben-Zvi and the Council for the Preservation of Heritage Sites in Israel seek to turn the facade of the hut into a garden and make it part of the Kuzari Garden Boulevard.
Tu BShvat, 21 January 2019