First in a 2-part series on Tel Aviv's "White City", the world's largest collection of modernist-style architecture.   I discuss how in the 1930s a radical architecture style largely developed in Northern Europe took hold in a new city on the shores of the Mediterranean.

To explore further:

• UNESCO world heritage listing of the White City
• Wikipedia  on the Dreyfuss Affair
• History of Aliyahs
• The Balfour Declaration
• The Geddes Plan
• Detailed article about the Ha'avarah agreement
• Wikipedia on functionalist architecture.  Interestingly it doesn't mention Tel Aviv
• 1936 Punch cartoon on functionalist architecture- Do tell me you loathe it!

Photo credit:  Bialik House, 1925 The Times of Tel Aviv