Tel Aviv—Boy’s School

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

Established in 1914, the Municipal Boys’ School moved into its first permanent purpose-built premises at 37 Ahad Ha’am Steet, on the corner of Ben Zakai Street, in 1924. The sought-after architect Dov Hershkovitz designed the plans and oversaw the construction. The facade is decorated with coloured ceramic plates. The frieze above the entrance represents the twelve tribes, the plates on either side symbolize the cities of Haifa, Hebron, Jaffa and Tiberias. Beautifully restored, the building still exists. A plaque at the site reads: “Between 1936 and 1947, the Ahad Ha’am School for Boys, formerly located here, served as a training site for the Signal Communications Company of the Hagana—Israel’s pre-State army. It was also used as an arms cache (slick).”

Edition Moshe Ordmann, Tel-Aviv, Palestine.