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File:TelAviv-Founding.jpg

TelAviv-Founding.jpg ‎(600 × 379 pixels, file size: 39 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Description

Tel Aviv was founded on land purchased from Bedouins, north of the existing city of Jaffa. This photograph is of 1909 auction of the first lots.
Date Taken on 1909
Source Originally from he.wikipedia; description page is/was here. Original uploader was מאיר מ at he.wikipedia. The source is מאיר מ, a person from Israel, the author is Avraham Soskin.
Author Avraham Soskin (1881 - 1963)
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Public domain This work or image is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired in Israel. According to Israel's copyright statute from 2007 ( translation), a work is released to the public domain on 1 January of the 71st year after the author's death (paragraph 38 of the 2007 statute) with the following exceptions:
  • A photograph taken on 24 May 2008 or earlier — the old British Mandate act applies, i.e. on 1 January of the 51st year after the creation of the photograph (paragraph 78(i) of the 2007 statute, and paragraph 21 of the old British Mandate act).
  • If the copyrights are owned by the State, not acquired from a private person, and there is no special agreement between the State and the author — on 1 January of the 51st year after the creation of the work (paragraphs 36 and 42 in the 2007 statute).

See also category: PD Israel & British Mandate.
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