Intrigues and riots were not the main business of the settlers. In 1885 settlement managers, on behalf of Baron Rothschild, sent a request to the Hovevey Zion, an organization in Russia, and asked to send six talented young people capable of studying agricultural business and teaching it to the first settlers. Among the fellows arrived Michael Puhachevsky. After studying in the North of the country, Puhachevsky very quickly settled in Rishon LeZion and continued Meerovich’s work on the cultivation of grapes. Later he founded industrial cultivation of citrus fruits. Thanks to him, this park turned from gardens and orchards into a research agricultural laboratory, with hundreds of plants from around the world. These tall palm trees are called Washingtonia robusta. Their homeland is Mexico, California, and Arizona.
This is a special tour and a unique route. Its difference from the usual city tour is that your mobile phone is the guide. As in every excursion, it takes time to get used to the tour guide, his style, rhythm and pathways. The only difference is that in this case, you are the storyteller, you are walking yourself and set the pace for yourself - all according to your style. Just give yourself time to get used to it and you will come to life with a story full of the vicissitudes of the lives of real people, a story about their joys and sorrows, a story in which urban legends rise from the past, instill hope and simply sums up: here it all began.
