Rishon LeZion, five miles south of Tel Aviv, was founded in the 1880s by Jewish immigrants who fled the poverty and pogroms of Russia. Now the fourth-largest city in Israel, what was once a small farming community has become one of the most prosperous cities in the country. Drive along the city’s wide thoroughfares, and except for the Hebrew on store fronts and office buildings, you could just as well be in suburban Houston, Northern
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