The Minkoff Citrus Orchard Museum - Rehovot

At the outskirts of Rehovot, the Weizmann Institute of Science, among citrus trees, stands the Minkoff Citrus Orchard Museum which was once Rehovot’s first orchard and one of the most important and interesting sites in the history of settlement in the Land of Israel. The site revives the beginning of citrus growing in the Land of Israel  In 1904 Zalman Minkoff, man of the First Aliyah, planted the first orchard in Rehovot he site tells the story of the Minkoff family, one of Rehovot’s first, who had their try at growing citruses, the story of citrus growing in Rehovot and the story of the entire citrus growing project in the whole Land of Israel

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