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2 unusual facts about Mikveh Israel


Mikveh Israel

In 1898, Theodor Herzl met the German Emperor Wilhelm II at the main entrance of Mikveh Israel during Herzl's sole visit to Palestine.

The meeting, a P.R. event engineered by Herzl to publically meet the Kaiser, was misinterpreted by the world media as a legitimization of Herzl and Zionism by Germany.


Jonas Phillips

A founder of Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, Phillips was the father of twenty-one children and the grandfather of Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish Commodore in the United States Navy.

Tel Aviv Light Rail

It will begin in Kfar Saba then continue on to Hod Hasharon, Herzliya, Ramat Hasharon on Sokolov Street, before joining Ben-Gurion Street in Ramat Gan, then Yitzhak Rabin Street in Givataim, then Moshe Dayan Street in Tel Aviv, Mikveh Israel, it will end in Holon after crossing Ariel Sharon Park.


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