Founders of Tel Aviv gather in 1909 to draw lots on the sand dunes outside Jaffa. The city was founded in 1909 by the Yishuv (Jewish residents) as a modern housing estate on the outskirts of the ancient port city of Jaffa, then part of the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem within the Ottoman Empire

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