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This Photo Allegedly Shows What a Beach in Palestine Looked Like Before Israel ...

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  • (For use Sunday, April 12, with Eric Gottgetreu's Jerusalem AP-N story on Israel's 5th anniversary.). . Israel today: thriving tel aviv. Israel's biggest and busiest city is Tel Aviv, shown above in airview, looking from the beach towards the heart of the city with its cluster of modern homes and buildings ...
  • and Israel. Like in Tel Aviv - a city I lived in for about a year after college. About 4,000 Bauhaus-influenced buildings - designed by Jewish architects, some who'd studied at the Bauhaus - dot the city ...
  • Because some of its members had ties to the Soviet Union or to communists, others were Jewish." This led at least half its students and professors to leave Germany, but instead of marking the end of the Bauhaus movement, it led to its revival elsewhere in the world - notably in Tel Aviv.. . In the 1930s, Tel Aviv was in the middle of a construction boom ...
  • Another is a 2013 blog post, which includes the photograph of a 2002 book titled "Bauhaus Tel Aviv," by Nahoum Cohen. The blog post dates the photograph to 1940, presumably citing the book ...
  • Architecture Digest published an article in 2019 featuring some of Tel Aviv's best examples of this architecture.. . In sum, the photograph is a snapshot of the early days of Tel Aviv. ...

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  • (photograph,zionism)
  • (photograph,upvoted)
  • (photograph,tineye)

    • Time PeriodChallengeMomentumWIP
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    High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

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    (3) (tel_aviv,bauhaus)93.87
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    (6) (tel_aviv,israel,bauhaus)45.40
    (7) (tel_aviv,soviet_union)44.79
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    (9) (photograph,nahoum_cohen)43.56
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    (29) (tel_aviv,construction)23.93
    (30) (photograph,zionism)22.09
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    Supporting narratives:

    Please refer to knowledge diagram for a complete set of supporting narratives.

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • (For use Sunday, April 12, with Eric Gottgetreu's Jerusalem AP-N story on Israel's 5th anniversary.). . Israel today: thriving tel aviv. Israel's biggest and busiest city is Tel Aviv, shown above in airview, looking from the beach towards the heart of the city with its cluster of modern homes and buildings ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (tel_aviv,city)
        • (tel_aviv,israel,city)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • and Israel. Like in Tel Aviv - a city I lived in for about a year after college. About 4,000 Bauhaus-influenced buildings - designed by Jewish architects, some who'd studied at the Bauhaus - dot the city ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (tel_aviv,city)
        • (tel_aviv,bauhaus)
        • (tel_aviv,israel,bauhaus-influenced)
        • (tel_aviv,israel,bauhaus)
        • (tel_aviv,israel,college)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (bauhaus,israel) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • About 4,000 Bauhaus-influenced buildings - designed by Jewish architects, some who'd studied at the Bauhaus - dot the city. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (israel,city,dot)
        • (israel,dot)
        • (tel_aviv,dot)
        • (city,dot)
        • (tel_aviv,israel,dot)
        • Inferred entity relationships (4)
        • (city,dot,israel) [inferred]
        • (dot,israel,tel_aviv) [inferred]
        • (city,dot) [inferred]
        • (dot,israel) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Like in Tel Aviv - a city I lived in for about a year after college. About 4,000 Bauhaus-influenced buildings - designed by Jewish architects, some who'd studied at the Bauhaus - dot the city. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (israel,city,buildings)
        • (tel_aviv,israel,architects)
        • (city,buildings)
        • (israel,city,architects)
        • (tel_aviv,israel,buildings)
        • (city,architects)
        • Inferred entity relationships (5)
        • (buildings,city) [inferred]
        • (architects,city,israel) [inferred]
        • (city,israel,tel_aviv) [inferred]
        • (buildings,city,israel) [inferred]
        • (architects,city) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Still, we used this information in a search on newspapers.com, a site that compiles newspaper archives, and we found several references to articles that published this photograph on April 12, 1953, and days later - using Gottgetreu's article and a portion or all of the caption cited above ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (photograph,article)
        • (israel,photograph)
        • (israel,information)

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • About 4,000 Bauhaus-influenced buildings - designed by Jewish architects, some who'd studied at the Bauhaus - dot the city ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (city,bauhaus)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (bauhaus,city,israel) [inferred]

    • challenge - Back to HLA
      • Still, we used this information in a search on newspapers.com, a site that compiles newspaper archives, and we found several references to articles that published this photograph on April 12, 1953, and days later - using Gottgetreu's article and a portion or all of the caption cited above. This one is from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (note the headline is incorrect: in 1953, Israel had existed for five years, not two): ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (israel,gottgetreu)
        • (israel,fort_worth_star-telegram)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • . Another is a 2013 blog post, which includes the photograph of a 2002 book titled "Bauhaus Tel Aviv," by Nahoum Cohen. The blog post dates the photograph to 1940, presumably citing the book ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (tel_aviv,photograph)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Architecture Digest published an article in 2019 featuring some of Tel Aviv's best examples of this architecture.. . In sum, the photograph is a snapshot of the early days of Tel Aviv. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (tel_aviv,photograph)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Because some of its members had ties to the Soviet Union or to communists, others were Jewish." This led at least half its students and professors to leave Germany, but instead of marking the end of the Bauhaus movement, it led to its revival elsewhere in the world - notably in Tel Aviv.. . In the 1930s, Tel Aviv was in the middle of a construction boom ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (tel_aviv,bauhaus)
        • (tel_aviv,movement)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Because some of its members had ties to the Soviet Union or to communists, others were Jewish." This led at least half its students and professors to leave Germany, but instead of marking the end of the Bauhaus movement, it led to its revival elsewhere in the world - notably in Tel Aviv. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (tel_aviv,germany)
        • (tel_aviv,soviet_union)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Because some of its members had ties to the Soviet Union or to communists, others were Jewish." This led at least half its students and professors to leave Germany, but instead of marking the end of the Bauhaus movement, it led to its revival elsewhere in the world - notably in Tel Aviv.. . In the 1930s, Tel Aviv was in the middle of a construction boom. Founded by Jews under Ottoman rule in 1906, its first name was Ahuzat Bayit ("homestead" in Hebrew). ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (tel_aviv,ottoman)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Another is a 2013 blog post, which includes the photograph of a 2002 book titled "Bauhaus Tel Aviv," by Nahoum Cohen. The blog post dates the photograph to 1940, presumably citing the book. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (photograph,nahoum_cohen)
        • (tel_aviv,nahoum_cohen)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • In 2023, Snopes researched whether a different photo showed a street in Jerusalem before the founding of Israel.. . Sources:. '10 of Tel Aviv's Best Examples of Bauhaus Architecture' ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (tel_aviv,jerusalem)
        • (tel_aviv,israel,jerusalem)
        • Inferred entity relationships (1)
        • (jerusalem,tel_aviv) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Because some of its members had ties to the Soviet Union or to communists, others were Jewish." This led at least half its students and professors to leave Germany, but instead of marking the end of the Bauhaus movement, it led to its revival elsewhere in the world - notably in Tel Aviv.. . In the 1930s, Tel Aviv was in the middle of a construction boom. Founded by Jews under Ottoman rule in 1906, its first name was Ahuzat Bayit ("homestead" in Hebrew) ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (tel_aviv,construction)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Architecture Digest published an article in 2019 featuring some of Tel Aviv's best examples of this architecture.. . In sum, the photograph is a snapshot of the early days of Tel Aviv ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (photograph,article)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • At the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024, as the Israel-Hamas war raged, a photograph circulated on social media with several versions of a similar claim (archived). The posts posited that the photo had been taken in Palestine, before Zionism and before the foundation of Israel:. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (photograph,zionism)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • One post on X had gained 5.7 million views, 17,600 likes and more than 6,000 shares. The photograph also appeared on Reddit, with the tag "imperialism," where it was upvoted 5,100 times. ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (photograph,tag)
        • (photograph,upvoted)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • What Year Was the Photograph Taken.. The photograph is difficult to date. A reverse-image search using TinEye and Google brought up several references for this image, all of which confirm it is an aerial view of a portion of the Tel Aviv Promenade ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (photograph,tineye)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Architecture Digest published an article in 2019 featuring some of Tel Aviv's best examples of this architecture.. . In sum, the photograph is a snapshot of the early days of Tel Aviv. Though founded under Ottoman rule, it was built out during the British Mandate of Palestine by a growing community of Jews ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (photograph,sum)
        • (photograph,ottoman)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • One of the references is the catalog of a 2013 exhibit "White City: Bauhaus Architecture in Tel Aviv" at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia.. . Another is a 2013 blog post, which includes the photograph of a 2002 book titled "Bauhaus Tel Aviv," by Nahoum Cohen ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (photograph,st_petersburg)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • . What Year Was the Photograph Taken.. The photograph is difficult to date. A reverse-image search using TinEye and Google brought up several references for this image, all of which confirm it is an aerial view of a portion of the Tel Aviv Promenade ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (photograph,reverse-image)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • At the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024, as the Israel-Hamas war raged, a photograph circulated on social media with several versions of a similar claim (archived). The posts posited that the photo had been taken in Palestine, before Zionism and before the foundation of Israel: ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (photograph,media)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • The students and teachers who left spread Bauhaus designs and helped it flourish around the world including the U.S. and Israel. Like in Tel Aviv - a city I lived in for about a year after college ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (israel,city,bauhaus)
        • (city,bauhaus)
        • (israel,bauhaus)
        • Inferred entity relationships (4)
        • (city,israel,tel_aviv) [inferred]
        • (bauhaus,city) [inferred]
        • (bauhaus,city,israel) [inferred]
        • (bauhaus,israel,tel_aviv) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • The students and teachers who left spread Bauhaus designs and helped it flourish around the world including the U.S. and Israel. Like in Tel Aviv - a city I lived in for about a year after college. About 4,000 Bauhaus-influenced buildings - designed by Jewish architects, some who'd studied at the Bauhaus - dot the city ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (israel,city,college)
        • (city,bauhaus-influenced)
        • (israel,city,bauhaus-influenced)
        • (city,college)
        • Inferred entity relationships (6)
        • (bauhaus-influenced,city) [inferred]
        • (city,israel,tel_aviv) [inferred]
        • (college,israel,tel_aviv) [inferred]
        • (bauhaus-influenced,city,israel) [inferred]
        • (city,college,israel) [inferred]
        • (city,college) [inferred]

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Combined with adjacent Jaffa, the city has a population of 400,000. Near Tel Aviv is the big international aerodrome LOD (Lydda), home of Israel's national airline, "El Al.". . 5392 1135A- 4/3/53 aje f wab165 ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (israel,lod)
        • (israel,international)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • Near Tel Aviv is the big international aerodrome LOD (Lydda), home of Israel's national airline, "El Al.". . 5392 1135A- 4/3/53 aje f wab165. . There is a stamp in purple ink on this text that says "RECEIVED EXAMINER REFERENCE LIBRARY APR 12 1953.". ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (israel,ink)

    • WIP - Back to HLA
      • 5392 1135A- 4/3/53 aje f wab165. . There is a stamp in purple ink on this text that says "RECEIVED EXAMINER REFERENCE LIBRARY APR 12 1953.". ...
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (israel,examiner_reference_library_apr)