The sign is rectangular but its head is designed according to the silhouette of the old building of the Gymnasia Herzliya, which serves as a logo of the Council for the Preservation of Heritage Sites in Israel
The place was photographed on the same day by the same photographer
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Click for a larger image The visit of the great rabbis mentioned on the sign is indicated on a separate sign located next to this sign
Click for sign's details Translation of the text on the sign:
Symbol of the Council for the Preservation of Israeli Heritage Sites
Symbol of the Jezreel Valley Regional Council
The symbol of the Ministry of Culture and Sports
Kibbutz Merhavia symbol
DINING ROOM, KITCHEN & BAKERY This building, formerly called "Beit HaMazon", and covering 350 square meters, was designed by the architect Alexander Baerwald. In the year of its establishment, 1913, the poignant debate took place here between the pioneers of the cooperative and the delegation of the great rabbis, led by Rabbi Kook and Rabbi Sonnenfeld.
On the sooty kitchen ceiling, Ira Jan painted her famous painting, in which Theodor Herzl comforts an orphan from the massacre in Chișinău. The dining hall was also used for events and conferences of the Hapoalim movement in Israel, and in 1914 the first Hapoalim conference was held here. In the years 1922-23, Golda Meirson (Meir) managed the kitchen. Hence the nickname "Golda’s kitchen". The place continued to operate until 1941, and from 1956, for several decades, the building served the elementary school children and the bakery.
Today, there is a kindergarten for children with special needs, as well as a hair salon and a physical therapy clinic.
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Top right: the dining room seen from the west, during the construction years of the courtyard.
The kitchen and bakery have not yet been built.
Left: the bakery in the fifties of the last century
The time: 13:03, lunch.