Montefiore () is a

neighborhood A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neigh ...

in the center of

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History

The Montefiore neighbourhood was built on the site of Har Hatikva ( Mount Hope, Jaffa) the first community outside Jaffa, established by messianic Christians. In 1855, on his fourth visit to Israel,

Moses Montefiore Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, (24 October 1784 – 28 July 1885) was a British financier and banker, activist, Philanthropy, philanthropist and Sheriffs of the City of London, Sheriff of London. Born to an History ...

purchased land for the group and appointed Clorinda Minor head of the orchard. In January 1858, the farm was ransacked by Arab villagers, who murdered the head of the family and raped the women.The mountain of despair

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The Montefiore neighborhood is located on the eastern edge of central Tel Aviv, about 2 kilometers from the

Mediterranean coast The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Eu ...

, at an altitude of about 20 meters. At its eastern border, the Ayalon Motorway ( Highway 20) passes along the railway line (on which the Ha-Shalom railway station is located) and the

Ayalon River The Ayalon River (, ''Nahal Ayalon''; Nahr el-Barideh), or Wadi Musrara (وادي المصرارة) in Arabic, is a perennial stream in Israel, originating in the Judean Hills and discharging into the Yarkon River in the area of Tel Aviv. The to ...

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{{Authority control Neighborhoods of Tel Aviv

History

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