{{Short description|Algerian Jew, among Tel Aviv founders}} {{multiple issues|{{More citations needed|date=July 2025}} {{Expand Hebrew|topic=bio|date=July 2025}}}} {{Infobox person | name = <!-- defaults to article title when left blank --> | image = Aharon Chelouche.jpg | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = Chelouche in the late 19th century | birth_date = | birth_place = Oran, French Algeria | death_date = {{Death date|1920|4|7}} | death_place = Occupied Enemy Territory Administration | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Aharon Chelouche''' ({{langx|he|אהרן שלוש}} / {{langx|arq| هارون ثلاثة|Hārūn Tlata}}, Died April 7, 1920) was an Algerian Sephardic Jew, landowner, jeweler and moneychanger. At the end of the 19th century, he was a major figure in Jaffa's Jewish community. He was also known as the founder of the Neve Tzedek neighbourhood, now part of Tel Aviv, Israel.
==Early life== Chelouche was born in the Algeria City of Oran.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Hacohen |first=David |date=2004-10-10 |title=גאוות היחידה של משפחת שלוש מנווה צדק |url=https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2987099,00.html |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=ynet |language=he}}</ref> His family moved to Ottoman Palestine in 1840,<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Paz |first=Ron |date=2001-02-25 |title=בית שלוש: הבית היהודי הראשון מחוץ ליפו העתיקה |url=https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=472292 |access-date=2025-07-28 |work=Globes |language=he}}</ref> when his parents travelled by ferry to Haifa. Soon afterwards the family moved to Nablus, then to Jerusalem, and thereafter finally to Jaffa. They became soon one of the leading families in the city, having exceptional good leadership skills. The Chelouche family had good connections with Arab families, as they spoke Arabic. One of the known family friends was a Turkish governor.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} Aharon had two sons, Avraham Haim and Yosef Eliyahu, as well as five daughters.<ref name=":0" />
==Adult life and career== Aharon worked in the gold and silver trade and as a money changer, and purchased land outside Jaffa.<ref name=":1" /> He bought land north-east of Jaffa, where he built a house and then facilitated the creation of the neighbourhood of Neve Tzedek. Chelouche's house was one of the largest residential buildings in the late 19th century.{{dubious|Largest WHERE? NE Jaffa? :-) |date=August 2016}} The family started to grow and Aharon built a second floor for the house. At the east part of the house is a synagogue. Today the house is an important landmark in Neve Tzedek, but it is in a poor state of preservation and is again under construction.{{dubious|Part of the initial paragraph, which seems copied from somewhere and Google-translated - copyright issues?|date=August 2016}}
The Chelouche family has also been involved in the iron and tile industry.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} thumb|Tomb of Aharon Chelouche in Trumpeldor Cemetery, Tel Aviv Aharon was interested in religious education, and hired a rabbi from Beirut to teach Torah in Jaffa.{{Citation needed|date=July 2025}} He died in 1920 at the age of 91,<ref name=":1" /> and is buried in the Trumpeldor Cemetery in Tel Aviv.
His younger son, Yosef Eliyahu, became one of the founders of Tel Aviv.<ref name=":1" /> Chelouche's grandson, Moshe, briefly served as mayor of Tel Aviv in 1936.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Naor |first=Amit |date=2020-06-30 |title=ראש עיריית תל אביב ליום אחד |url=https://blog.nli.org.il/chov-moshe-shlush/ |access-date=2025-07-27 |website=National Library of Israel |language=he-IL}}</ref>
== See also ==
* Eden Cinema * Neve Tzedek * Suzanne Dellal
==Photo gallery==
<gallery> File:RoyLindmanAharonChelouche 001.jpg|Neve Tzedek today File:RoyLindmanAharonChelouche 002.jpg|Synagogue door File:Memorial_plaque_on_Aharon_Chelouche's_house.jpg|Chelouche House plaque </gallery>
==References== {{reflist}} {{Authority control}}
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