History factoid: Rehovot a century ago, 1909

Rehovot was founded on March 6, 1890 (in the Hebrew year 5650 or tara"n), by a group of Jews from Warsaw belonging to the Menuha v'Nahala (Rest and Settlement) association. Initially the residents engaged in viticulture, and from1904, they raised citrus groves. As a result, Rehovot soon became economically self-sufficient, and absorbed many immigrant agricultural laborers. When Yemenite Jews first started making their way to Israel, Rehovot (besides Jerusalem) was one of the places they settled: the Sha`arayim (Twin Gates) quarter of Rehovot still has a large Yemenite population.

In 1934, Chaim Weizmann founded the Daniel Sieff research institute, which later became the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. The grounds of the Weizmann Institute also include Weizmann's house. Rehovot has about 100,000 inhabitants today.

Source & Picture of Rehovot 1909 @zionism-israel.com