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Rishon LeẔiyyon

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Rishon LeẔiyyon, city, west-central Israel. It lies on the Judaean Plain southeast of Tel Aviv–Yafo. The name (Hebrew: “first to Zion”) is derived from a biblical allusion in Isaiah 41:27. The second oldest Jewish village of Palestine (after Petaẖ Tiqwa), Rishon LeẔiyyon was founded in 1882 by Russian-Jewish immigrants. At first unsuccessful, owing to lack of agricultural experience, the colonists were assisted (after 1898) by Baron Edmond de Rothschild, the financier and philanthropist. His experts found the area suitable for viticulture, and extensive vineyards were planted. There, and at Zikhron Yaʿaqov (in the north, near Haifa), Rothschild built some of ...(100 of 172 words)

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