Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Meir Dizengoff" in Portuguese language version.
Dizengoff died as a result of an illness on 23 September, 1936.
During the late 1880s he studied chemical engineering in France, specializing in glass production and was sent to Eretz Yisrael in 1892 by Baron Edmond de Rothschild to establish a glass factory at Tantura (Dor) to supply bottles for the wines produced in the settlements.
When Tel Aviv became a city in 1921, Dizengoff was elected its first mayor and, except for the years 1925–8, he served as mayor of Tel Aviv until the end of his life.
Meir Yankelevich Dizengoff was born on February 25, 1861 in the Moldavian part of Bessarabia.
