Herzl at a Herzliya Car Wash
And these are the names of the Children of Israel (Exodus1:1)ואלה שמות בני ישראל
We spent Shabbat Shemot (Names) in Herzliya named for Theodore Herzl, the towering figure of modern Zionism.
Driving to the hotel, we photographed a laser-cut steel portrait of Herzl at the entrance to Herzliya peering down on a car wash.
The banner on the water tower advertises the celebration of Herzl's 150th birthday and the founding of the city Herzliya 85 years ago.
We had lunch on the hotel patio overlooking the pool and sea. We felt all was going right when we were given the key to room 52.
Miriam's mother lived at Beit Juliana, the Dutch parents' home in Herzliya, until she passed away 2 years ago at 102.
As founder of the Dutch Zionist Organization and chief rabbi of Holland, Miriam's great-grandfather, Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dunner, knew Herzl.
Our son Moshe Yehuda earned his BA and MA at Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya where he is assistant director of international programs.
Mel's grandfather, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Kahn, participated in the 4th Zionist Congress in London in 1900 chaired by Herzl.
Herzl wrote how he imagined the Jewish State would be in his 1902 utopian novel Altneuland (OldNewLand).
We photographed the yachts at the Herzliya Marina and the Imaginarium shop in the Herzliya Marina Mall.
The main character in Herzl's book arrives at the newly created Jewish State in a yacht from his exile on an isolated Pacific island.
When Sokolov translated Herzl's novel into Hebrew, he gave it the title Tel Aviv, Tel an archeological site and Aviv springtime.
On Sunday, we went to the Tel Aviv port to buy a new light fixture for our dinning room and had lunch at the water's edge.
Then I came to the exiles, to Tel Aviv…. and I dwelt where they were dwelling. (Ezekiel 3:15)
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