Tantura
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Tantura was a Palestinian Arab fishing village located 8 kilometers (5 mi) northwest of Zikhron Ya'akov on the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Near the village lie the ruins of the ancient Phoenician city of Dor.
Rothschild bottle factory, built in Tantura, 1891
Tantura 1938 1:20,000
Tantura 1945 1:250,000
Expusion of the Tantura civilians, 1948.
Zikhron Ya'akov
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Zikhron Ya'akov is a town in Israel, 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Haifa, and part of the Haifa District. It is located at the southern end of the Carmel mountain range overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, near the coastal highway. It was one of the first Jewish settlements of Halutzim in the country, founded in 1882 by Romanian Jews, who in 1883 received support from Baron Edmond James de Rothschild and renamed their town in honor of his father, James Mayer de Rothschild. In 2022 it had a population of 24,145.
HaMeyasdim Street in Zikhron Ya'akov
Building wine barrels, 1890s
Ohel Ya'akov Synagogue
Teachers at the First Eretz Yisraeli Congress, Zichron Ya'akov, 1903