Meir Dizengoff

Meir Dizengoff
1st Mayor of Tel Aviv
In office 1921–1925
Succeeded by	David Bloch-Blumenfeld
3rd Mayor of Tel Aviv
In office 1927 – 23 September 1936[1]
Preceded by	David Bloch-Blumenfeld
Succeeded by	Moshe Chelouche
Personal details
Born	(1861-02-25)25 February 1861 Ekimovtsy, Bessarabia
Died	23 September 1936(1936-09-23) (aged 75) Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
Political party	General Zionists
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Meir Dizengoff (Hebrew: מֵאִיר דִּיזֶנְגּוֹף, Russian: Меер Янкелевич Дизенгоф Meer Yankelevich Dizengof, 25 February 1861 – 23 September 1936) was a Zionist leader and politician and the founder and first mayor of Tel Aviv (1911–1922 as head of town planning, 1922–1936 as mayor). Dizengoff's actions in Ottoman Palestine and the British Mandate for Palestine helped lead to the creation of the State of Israel. David Ben-Gurion declared Israeli independence in 1948 at Dizengoff's residence in Tel Aviv. Dizengoff House is now Israel's Independence Hall.