ABSTRACT
On 11 April 1909, 66 families gathered on sand dunes overlooking a barren landscape which would become known as Tel Aviv, Israel. These families were allocating parcels of land to develop a new neighborhood to relieve overcrowding in the nearby port of Yafo (Jaffa) and respond to the influx of Jewish immigrants fleeing Europe. To determine the land distribution, they agreed on a lottery system in which family names were written on white sea shells and plot numbers were written on gray shells. Each white shell was randomly paired with a gray one, and thus Tel Aviv’s founding families began building the First Hebrew City (Azaryahu 2007: 38; The Library Tel Aviv 2018: website) (Figure 19.1).
