Mikveh Israel

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Mikveh Israel (disambiguation).
The first students of Mikveh Israel
The first students of Mikveh Israel

Mikveh Israel (מקוה ישראל; "Hope of Israel") was the first Jewish agricultural school in the Palestine. [1]The name is taken from two passages in the Book of Jeremiah - Jeremiah 14:8 and 17:13. It was proposed by Wolf Grinstein, one of the school's first students, who later taught there.

Charles Netter of the Alliance Israelite Universelle established the school in 1870 on a tract of land southeast of Tel Aviv leased from the Turkish Sultan. Netter was the first headmaster. Later, Baron Edmond James de Rothschild contributed to the upkeep of the school.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mikve Israel Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel, edited by Raphael Patai, New York, 1971

[edit] See also

 This Israel-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
This article about a school in Asia is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
 This agriculture-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Coordinates: 32°02′N 34°47′E / 32.033, 34.783

Languages