"Beit Vigan", ʿĀdel az-Zawaty, a Paper Clipping

Handwritten in Arabic, this paper clipping documents the name of "Beit Vigan/Bat-Yam (literally translates into the daughter of the sea)", a colony established in 1926 on the Mediterranean Sea shores south of Jaffa on the hands of twenty-four religious Jewish families, who called it at first "Beit Fagan (literally translates into the house and the garden". In 1929, families living there fled for two years to the Tel Aviv colony in fear of Arab attacks. Said colony witnessed a significant increase in its population in 1933, after the arrival of a number of Zionist immigrants from Germany. In 1937, the colony had a local council, and it was referred to as "Bat Yam". Nowadays, said colony is a primarily industrial and tourist city and has become one of the most prominent tourist resorts, where thousands of local and foreign tourists come to spend their vacations at its 3.2 kilometres beach, of which three-quarters of a kilometre is designated for swimming.