The sign is on a pavilion located on the outskirts of the cemetery, and there is another sign on it
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[Image: The cemetery]
"The beginning of the cemetery came by chance. Over the years it has become a precious burial ground of Tel Aviv, the Jewish settlement, and one of the most important cemeteries of Judaism in the world. It is appropriate that consideration be given to improving and repairing it and preserving its existence for future generations."
(From the book The Old Cemetery in Tel Aviv that was obliterated by Zvi Karol and Zadok Lineman)
The old cemetery in Tel Aviv was founded in place of the Jewish cemetery in Jaffa in 1902 (before the city of Tel Aviv was established). This is because of the Cholera epidemic that broke out that year and it was forbidden, for medical reasons, to bury the plague victims in Jaffa.
Most of the buried are from the founders of the city of Tel Aviv. The cemetery was used until 1932 and today important personalities are sometimes buried there.
[Photos: Tel Aviv in 1910, the bottom photo shows the first kiosk on Rothschild Boulevard]
"Look: what was here in 1910? And what do you see here today? A huge city. A city in a place where there was only sand, thats all, this is Tel Aviv!
Here is Herzl Street, Sderot Herzl, Makt Nordau Street, the gymnasium, the city hall, the casino, the synagogue whose dome can already be seen from the sea, towering over the city!
Now a great theater is being built. Oh! So beautiful here!
(The description of an enthusiastic Zionist pioneer, from: "The Wandering Jew Motivated" by Albert Londer - a French journalist who wrote about the Jews between 1927-1929)
[Photo: Tel Aviv in its early days]
"The people of Jaffa stood up and formed an association to build them repaired houses in a special neighborhood, this is a Tel Aviv neighborhood, which became a city and a mother in Israel..."
(from Agnons "Only Yesterday")
"How great is Tel Avivs role in the creation of Hebrew culture in Israel..."
(Meir Dizengoff, the first mayor of Tel Aviv, 1935)
[Photos: Tel Aviv in its early days]
"On the site of the sand hills of Jaffa they created the Tel Aviv neighborhood with its beautiful streets..."
(Prof. Joseph Klausner upon his arrival in the Land of Israel on December 18, 1919)
[Photo: Tel Aviv in its early days]
"Life is pleasant in little Tel Aviv"
(Yehudit Harari in her book "Among the Vineyards" 1949)
"We never dreamed that our small neighborhood would grow into a big city and the city would become the heart of the country"
(Yehudit Harari in her book "Among the Vineyards" 1949)
"Tel Aviv! Engrave your memories on young hearts"
(Nahum Gutman 1959)
[Photo: Tel Aviv in its early days]
"Not every bird is a nightingale
And not every day is a wedding day.
That day was ... bright.
where man and city met
And they didnt know each other.
He is a little white. His back is bent.
And she grew, blossomed and will be beautiful.
Time is an impudent gentleman...
Look, what a face
Received in the meantime Tel Aviv. "
(from "Vatik" by Nathan Alterman, 1934).