This sign is different from the other signs in this series, in that its head is straight and is not designed according to the silhouette of the old building of the Herzliya Gymnasium
The place was photographed on the same day by the same photographer
Click for a larger image Translation of the text on the sign:
Symbol of the Council for the Preservation of Israeli Heritage Sites
The symbol of Holon Municipality - Holon the Children’s City
Dr. Haim Kugel’s house Here stood the house of the Kugel family. Dr. Haim Kugel (1897-1953) was the head of the council and the first mayor of Holon. He was born in Minsk, when he was 13 he was sent to study at the Herzliya high school in Tel Aviv. In 1914 he returned to visit his parents, and because of the World War he did not return to Israel. After his certification as a doctor of economics and philosophy, he was the director of the Hebrew gymnasium in Munkatsch, and a member of the Czech parliament in Prague.
In 1939 he immigrated to Israel with his wife Sarah (1905-1998) and their three children Esther, Shmuel and Yehuda.
In his days as head of the council, he established a constitution in Holon, he headed the small settlement of Holon, during the difficult days of the War of Independence, and was honored to be the first mayor, in 1950.
Dr. Kugel was buried in the cemetery in Nachalat Yitzhak in Tel Aviv.
About a year after his death, in 1954, his family moved into the one-story house that stood here and was destroyed in 2000.
Today there is a new residential building.
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