Word: dizengoff
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...Beirut who specializes in international law, "the Israelis will be building on sand, legally speaking as well as literally. But that has never deterred them in the past." Indeed not, judging by one of Zionism's favorite epics. In 1909 a band of Jewish families followed Meir Dizengoff out of Jaffa to a deserted stretch of dunes; they listened in hope and disbelief as Dizengoff prophesied that a Jewish community of 25,000 would rise on the sand where they stood...
...Dizengoff's settlement of Tel Aviv (The Hill of Spring) far exceeded even his expectations. Today greater Tel Aviv, one of whose main streets is named after Dizengoff, has a population of 1,200,000. It has swallowed up Jaffa, crowned its busy industry with smog as thick at times as Los Angeles, and generated so much crime that tough border police have been retrained and reassigned to Tel Aviv to cut down robberies and street violence...
...were organized by the World Maccabee Union, named for the Israelite hero, Judas Maccabaeus. The games began when 120 pigeons in flocks of ten?messengers to the Twelve Tribes of Israel?were allowed to fly to their homes in various parts of Palestine. Led by Tel Aviv's Mayor Dizengoff riding on a white horse, the 3,000 athletes, aged 5 to 60, marched to a huge new stadium that was crowded beyond capacity (25.000). The Maccabiad lasted four days. No supremely able Jewish athletes were entered, no world's records were broken. No official team score was compiled...