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Sign: Tel Aviv - Heritage Sites in Israel - The house of Rivka and Shlomo Abulafia


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Shim’on Rokah St 2, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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On the sign:
סמל המועצה לשימור אתרי מורשת בישראל

בית רבקה ושלמה אבולעפיה
בית זה נבנה על ידי שלמה אבולעפיה ורעייתו רבקה לבית פריימן בשנת תרס"ז (1907).
שלמה אבולעפיה, נצר למחדשי היישוב היהודי בטבריה ובירושלים, היה מוכתר שכונת נוה צדק ומייצגה בפני השלטונות העות’מנים.
רבקה אבולעפיה היתה בתו של יעקב פרץ פריימן, ממייסדי המושבה ראשון לציון.
רבקה ושלמה אבולעפיה נמנו על ששים וששה מייסדי תל אביב.
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The sign shape is square 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

In this house, the writer S. Y. Agnon lived Click for sign's details

The picture of the building was taken that day Click for a larger image

Translation of the text on the sign:
Symbol of the Council for the Preservation of Israeli Heritage Sites
This house of Rivka and Shlomo Abulafia
This house was built by Shlomo Abulafia and his wife Rivka of the Freiman family in 1907.
Shlomo Abulafia, a scion of the Jewish community in Tiberias and Jerusalem, was the Muhtar of the Neve Tzedek neighborhood and represented to the Ottoman authorities.
Rebecca Abulafia was the daughter of Jacob Peretz Freiman, one of the founders of Rishon LeZion.
Rebecca and Shlomo Abulafia were among the sixty-six founders of Tel Aviv.




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