The Jerusalem Commune

Meet the famous Jerusalemite faces of the Second Aliyah immigration. Hear the story of Rachel Ben Zvi, and her reception in the Buchari Neighborhood. Relive the youthful days of David Ben Gurion and (former president) Yitzchak Ben Zvi, and their late-night visits at the multitude of the city’s Arab coffee shops. This was a Jerusalem of mixed marriages between Mediterranean Jews and Russian revolutionaries, of failed worker’s strikes, of bachelors and the young leadership that would eventually create the State of Israel.