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4 unusual facts about Meir Dizengoff


Meir Dizengoff

Dizengoff opened the factory in Tantura in 1882, but it proved unsuccessful due to impurities in the sand, and Dizengoff soon returned to Kishinev.

While studying chemical engineering at the University of Paris, he met Edmond James de Rothschild, who sent him to Ottoman-ruled Palestine to establish a glass factory which would supply bottles for Rothschild's wineries.

The house underwent extensive renovations and became the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 1932.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

It was established in 1932 in a building that was the home of Tel Aviv's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff.



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