Place · Land of Israel / Judea
Tel Aviv
A new city that, in 1914, held about 2,000 residents, chiefly middle-class immigrants.
32.0819°N 34.7681°E · representative coordinate · approximate · Natural Earth Tel Aviv ↗
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Middle-class newcomers preferred Tel Aviv, a city of about 2,000 people in 1914.
Community: Mandate Yishuv
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Tel Aviv grew from 4,000 Jews in 1921 to 135,000 in 1935.
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In 1920, that generation founded the Histadrut, a union, builder, and social insurer.
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Jews rose from about 85,000, 12 percent, in 1914, to 475,000, about 31 percent, on the eve of war.