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Neve Tzedek

Neve Tzedek (lit: Abode of Justice) is a neighbourhood

Neighbourhood

A neighbourhood or neighborhood is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town or suburb. Neighbourhoods are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members....
in southwestern Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
, Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. It was the first Jewish

Judaism

Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
neighbourhood to be built outside the walls of the ancient port

Port

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of Jaffa

Jaffa

File:Jaffa StPeter church.jpgJaffa is an ancient port city believed to be one of the oldest in the world.Jaffa is located south of Tel Aviv, Israel on the Mediterranean Sea....
. For years, the neighbourhood prospered as Tel Aviv, the first modern Hebrew city, grew up around it. Years of neglect and disrepair followed, but today, Neve Tzedek has become one of Tel Aviv's latest fashionable and expensive districts.

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Neve Tzedek (lit: Abode of Justice) is a neighbourhood

Neighbourhood

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
, Israel

Israel

Judaism

Port

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of Jaffa

Jaffa

History

Neve Tzedek was established in 1887, 22 years before the 1909 founding of the City of Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
, by a group of Jewish families seeking a more peaceful life outside of overpopulated Jaffa

Jaffa

File:Jaffa StPeter church.jpgJaffa is an ancient port city believed to be one of the oldest in the world.Jaffa is located south of Tel Aviv, Israel on the Mediterranean Sea....
. Other neighbourhoods sprung up around Neve Tzedek, which were incorporated into the contemporary boundaries of the neighbourhood.

The new residents constructed mostly colourful, low buildings along narrow streets. Residents' homes featured many contemporary luxuries like private bathrooms and kitchens.

At the beginning of the 1900s, many artists and writers made Neve Tzedek their residence. Most notably, future Nobel prize

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Shmuel Yosef Agnon was a Nobel Prize in literature laureate writer and was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew fiction. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon. In English, his works are published under the name S....
, as well as Hebrew artist Nahum Gutman

Nahum Gutman

Nahum Gutman was a Russian-born Israeli Painting, sculpture and author....
, used Neve Tzedek as both a home and a sanctuary for art.

As time went on, however, the North of Tel Aviv began to be developed, and more affluent Tel Avivians started to move out of the South to inhabit the newly-developing North of the city. Neve Tzedek, its buildings abandoned or neglected, fell into disrepair. By the 1960s, city officials deemed Neve Tzedek - by this time run down and a virtual slum - incompatible with bustling Tel Aviv. However, their plan to demolish the historic neighbourhood to make way for high rise residential buildings was eventually cancelled as many Neve Tzedek buildings were placed on preservation lists. The old, worn-out neighbourhood became an oasis of the semi-pastoral amidst the greater urban centre of Tel Aviv.

By the end of the 1980s, efforts began to renovate and preserve Neve Tzedek's century-old structures. New establishments were housed in old buildings, most notably the Suzanne Dellal Dance and Theater Center and the Nahum Gutman Museum, located in the artist's home.

Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook

Abraham Isaac Kook

File:Abraham Isaac Kook 1924.jpgAbraham Isaac Kook was the first Ashkenazi Jews chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionism Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, Halacha, Kabbalah and a renowned Torah scholar....
was the first Rabbi

Rabbi

Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
of Neve Tzedek; he even maintained a Yeshiva

Yeshiva

Yeshiva or yeshivah , or metivta or mesivta ) also frequently referred to as a Beth midrash, Talmudical Academy, Rabbinical Academy or Rabbinical School is an institution unique to classical Judaism for Torah study, the study of Talmud, Rabbinic literature and History of responsa....
there. During his time in Neve Tzedek he became very close friends with many of the writers, especially Agnon. .

Gentrification

Gentrification

Gentrification, or urban gentrification, is the change in an urban area associated with the population mobility of more affluent individuals into a lower-class area....
led to Neve Tzedek's rebirth as a fashionable and popular upmarket residence for Tel Avivians. Its main streets became lined once again with artists' studios, alongside trendy cafés and bars, and more recently boutique hotels and shops selling hand-made goods to wealthy Israelis and tourists.

The Tel Aviv Light Rail, which is expected to pass near Neve Tzedek, will make the neighbourhood even more accessible for visitors and residents alike.

Neve Tzedek

History

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