Jaffa
Open the place on the mapOne of the oldest ports in the world. Cedars for the Temple arrived here and Jonah sailed from here, and for centuries it was the gateway for pilgrims and for the first modern immigrants.
What happened here
Rabbi Akiva50 – 135
Mikveh Israel1870
Chaim Nachman Bialik1873 – 1934
Chazon Ish1878 – 1953
First Aliyah1882
Founding of Rishon LeZion31 Jul 1882
Chaim Arlosoroff1899 – 1933
Founding of Tel Aviv1909
Fourth Aliyah1924
Fifth Aliyah1929
State of Israel14 May 1948
David Ben-Gurion14 May 1948 – 1954
Altalena affair22 Jun 1948
Uzi Submachine Gun1954
Scud Attacks on Israel18 Jan 1991
Firewall-11993
ICQ1996
PrimeSense and Kinect4 Nov 2010