But there’s not a mermaid in sight, I’m afraid!

Established in the 1920s, Bat Galim was designed as a garden suburb by one of Israel’s most famous architects, Richard Kauffmann.

He was a German-born architect and town planner also responsible for designing hundreds of Israeli agricultural settlements.

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