Friends!

Now, in Tel Aviv it is planned to remodel one of the most famous areas - Dizengoff Square. It opened back in 1934, and still is loved by the most of Israelis. A pearl of the square is the fountain "Fire and Water", which fascinates with its design, and implementation of ideas.

Do you know that the most favorite area is named after the girl from Zhytomyr named Zina? She was the daughter of the Rabbi, when she met the imperial army officer called Meir Dizengoff, a guy from Bessarabia. He served in the city. The girl was still a minor, and man, who was half older than she, patiently waited until his love became 18 yearsold. However, during that time he was in prison and learned in Paris. Then Meir accepted the Baron Rothschild permission to run a factory producing wine bottles in Palestine,but he refused to go there alone.

So he went to Zhytomyr to ask for the hand of his beloved Zina. In 1983 they married. However, in the consulate they changed the first letter of the name of his wife, since that time she has been known as Zina (Tsina).

Later, Meir Dizengoff became the first mayor of Tel Aviv, and his wife supported him throughout. She was an independent woman - gave voice and French lessons. Zina was loved by the whole city, people called her its "mother". But true motherhood she felt onlyfor a bit, Dizengoff’s only child died in infancy.

Zina passed away before Meir, he was very upset by her death. And frankly glad when the townspeople decided to name the central square of the city in her honor.

The couple, originally from Ukraine, has done a lot for Tel Aviv to became the town we know it today. Incidentally, after the death all the money of the family left for the good of the city. Also, they left all their love to it, and it helps town to bloom now. I sincerely hope the new generation of Ukrainians, will love their hometowns as well as Zina and Meir loved Tel Aviv. And they will breathe thenew life into the familiar streets.