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synagogue) – 304 lira per capita per year. The newspaper also noted that, for comparison, "in the shops in the
Hatikva neighborhood and in the shops of the teachers association in King George Street, the average revenue per capita per year did not exceed 43 lira in 1957". Afeka's image as a wealthy neighborhood continued to grow stronger in recent decades, when impressive villas were built there in place of the original houses that were destroyed.
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noted in its issue of 3 September 1958 that the highest revenue per capita in the branches of the
Cooperative Consumers Association in Tel Aviv (which operated eighty consumer associations that year) was recorded in the Afeka consumer association (which was located on Chaish St, next to the
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that "120 of the 250 houses of the Afeka neighborhood (the neighborhood of the
Haganah commanders) have already been built. In April, names were determined for 15 streets in the new neighborhood. Most of the names are related to the operations of the Haganah.
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To save costs, the association decided that the first 107 houses would be built centrally. Residents were given the option to choose from several models of houses. The first houses were inhabited in 1955 and in
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At the northern border of the neighborhood, an archaeological site was discovered in 1951 with burial caves from the Roman and
Byzantine periods attributed to the Samaritan tribe. The site became known as
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commanders in the Tel Aviv area. The
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