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The twin houses, Neve Tzedek, Tel-Aviv Israel

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Next to Eden cinema two identical houses stand. The twin houses were designed and built in 1913-1914 by the contractor Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche, the son of Aharon Chelouche and one of Neve Tzedek's founders. The twin houses were built for two of Aharon's older grandchildren.

Yosef Eliyahu Chelouche (1870-1934) was among Tel Aviv's primary founders. He was a merchant, entrepreneur, contractor, land buyer for the Jewish settlement, a generous donor and an important public leader. Armed with creativity and vision and fully backed by his family fortune, Yosef Eliyahu knew how to seize the growth momentum of the first and second Aliyah.
Yosef Eliyahu was full of initiatives and enterprises; manufacture and import of construction material, a luggage factory, a flooring factory, jewelry design, two banks, land and construction companies and more. Among the many houses he built; the girls' school and the boys' school in Neve Tzedek (today Suzanne Dellal Center), 32 of Ahuzat Bayit first homes and the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium building.

Yosef Eliyahu decided that the construction increase in Tel Aviv requires the foundation of a Silicate bricks factory, but he was having difficulties getting the necessary knowledge. With no hesitations, he went to Egypt- a 43 years old, wealthy and honorable man- and pretended to be a simple construction worker. He got a job at a local Silicate factory and worked his way up the ladder until he learned all the secrets of the Silicate manufacture.

The Chelouche family took upon herself, among many other things, the maintenance of the ottoman train system and even the food distribution for the entire population, both Arab and Jewish, during the great famine of 1917.
After World War 1, Yosef Eliyahu was appointed a member of the first city council. His fluency in the Arabic language and his good relations with the Arabic public figures helped him many times to meditate between the Arabic and Jewish residents of Tel Aviv. His whole life he insisted that the fulfillment of the Zionist vision will only be achieved through collaboration and true friendship with the Arabic population in Israel.