Jaffa. The Rocks.

Image from the book: Jewish Palestine: A Celebration of the Yishuv

Gershom Scholem later recalled his arrival in September 1923: “At that time there were no boats that sailed directly to Palestine. The Lloyd Triestino sent its ships only as far as Alexandria, and like almost everyone else making the crossing in those days we went as steerage passengers. … Those who did not wish to travel via El Arish and Gaza on the railroad that the British had built during the war took a small coastal steamer from Alexandria. This boat called at the various Levantine ports, including Jaffa and Haifa. … Yehoshua Gordon came on board on behalf of both the Jewish Agency and the immigration agency in Tel Aviv. … I was one of some ten halutzim and halutzot whose friends were waiting for them at the gates of the port. Gordon helped us find a way between the cliffs of Jaffa and the cliffs of the mandatory power’s bureaucracy. All this took hours. … We arrived in Jerusalem by lorry on 30 September. At the time, the ride from Tel Aviv took at least three hours.”

Glückstadt & Münden, Hamburg.