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the reserved wooden-
                     clad interior design of
                     the Branch of the Tel Aviv
                     Workers’ Loan and Saving
                     Fund in Jaffa (1949), and
                     the elongated box shape
                     of the Histadrut Building
                     in Ashkelon (1956), to the
                     more mature and
                     complicated designs of
                     Beit Sokolov Journalists
                     Association House
                     (1948-57), and the Israel
                     Bank of Agriculture
                     (1951-55), both inaugurated
                     in the new public and
                     business area at the east
                     of the southern part of Ibn
                     Gabirol Street in Tel Aviv.

                           The office buildings the
                     firm planned during Israel’s
                     first decade show the
                     features of the International
                     style. Yet, in fact, they

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