In the early 1920s a group of Jews purchased plots of land in Jerusalem from the Greek Orthodox Church, setting up a holding company, "Hakhsharat Hayishuv", for that purpose. Their plan was to build a residential neighborhood on the land. A leading member of the project was the head of the Jewish Agency's Political Department, Arthur Ruppin, who also became one of the first to move into the new neighborhood - which was called Rehavia. Among those who built a home in Rehavia was Judge Gad Frumkin. His father, Dov, had been for many years the editor of the Hebrew-language newspaper "Havatselet", and his son named the new house "Havatselet" in his honor. Many of the houses in the neighborhood were designed by architects whose names would become bywords in the profession. The neighborhood itself was designed by Richard Kaufmann; the architects for Frumkin's house were Hecker and Yellin. |
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