Historical sites
Amzaleg house
Israel from Gibraltar, and its members were renow2ned as businessmen and public activists. The house was built by Joseph , Haim Amzaleg's son. In 1892, following the construction of a railroad that parted the house's courtyard, Amzaleg sold the section over the railroad to the German industrialist Wagner. In 1994, a new house was built at the west wing.
Zerach Brandt Houses
This complex of houses, founded in 1890, symbolizes the beginning of the Jewish settlement outside of Jaffa, and constituted the nucleus of the Neve Shalom neighborhood. Its founder, Rabbu Zerach Brandt, was an orthodox Jew, a businessman and an ardent proponent of expanding the Jewish settlement in the land of Israel, who took part in various settlement initiatives.
HaGra Synagogue
This is the central synagogue of the "Prushim" (the Ascetics) congregation inJaffa. The "Prushim" were descendants of the Vilna Gaon's students (Rabbi Elija of Vilna, 1720-1797), who came to Jerusalem in the early 19th century. As a result if an aggravating dispute concerning the appropriate praying style, two synagogues were built on the plot: a humble one, "Kehal Hassidim," for the Hassidics, and a stately one, styled after East European synagogues, for the Prushim.
Shlush House
Algeria at the age of 11. When he grew up. He engaged in land trade and at a certain point acquired this land plot. In order to attract more settlers, he built in his courtyard a synagogue (still active today, currently serving the "Mikdash Melech" Yeshiva). Shlush and his sons dealt with construction, land-trade and public affairs. He was among the first inhabitants of the neighborhood and one of its leaders. With Shlush's death in 1920, the house was endowed to the Tel Aviv municipality, which opened here a mixed school. The school closed years ago and recently it was sold to private hands.
Eden Cinema
1913 in the border of Tel Aviv and Neve Tzedek as a joint initiative of Meir Dizengof (Tel Aviv's 1st mayor) and two entrepreneurs. The building was large and elaborate, and included a French film projector, an electricity-generating dynamo and 1100 chairs imported fromVienna. The Eden closed in 1975. "Bank Leumi" purchased it later on, demolished its interiors and preserved the façade.
ShlushBridge
Jaffa, was built for the convenience of Aharon Shlush- resident of the neighborhood and agent of the French concession firm that built and operated the Jaffa-Jerusalem railway. In 1918, British authorities changed railway regulations and the bridge was elevated to enable the passage of modern trains. Over the bridge are the houses of the Valhalla neighborhood, built by second and third generation Germans of the Templar order.
The Twin Houses
The two identical houses were built for two of Aharon Shlush's grandsons on family land, with construction materials produced at the family's workshop. Both houses were sold later on and have undergone preservation procedures.
Russian Autonomy House
Raphael Levi Rabinovitch Teomim built this house and rented it in 1896 to Hovevei Zion movement, who wanted to establish here a new educational model: a girls school that will carry out Ehad Ha'am's educational doctrine. Teachers lived in the ground floor and classes taught solely in Hebrew- were held at the upper floor. Soon it became the cultural