Meir Dizengoff ; 25 February 1861 - 23 September 1936) was a Zionist leader and politician and the founder and first mayor of Tel Aviv. Dizengoff's actions in Ottoman Palestine and the British Mandate for Palestine helped lead to the creation of the State of Israel.
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Albert Einstein meeting with Meir Dizengoff
Winston Churchill meeting with Meir Dizengoff in Tel Aviv
Meir Dizengoff with Arthur Balfour 1925
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Meir Dizengoff's funeral, 24 September 1936, Tel Aviv. Photo by Matson Photo Service.
Dizengoff's coffin, lying in the Tel Aviv museum of art, 1939Writers born in the 1860s 6
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Meir Dizengoff ; 25 February 1861 - 23 September 1936) was a Zionist leader and politician and the founder and first mayor of Tel Aviv. Dizengoff's actions in Ottoman Palestine and the British Mandate for Palestine helped lead to the creation of the State of Israel. David Ben-Gurion declared Israeli independence in 1948 at Dizengoff's residence in Tel Aviv. Dizengoff House is now Israel's Independence Hall.
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