The very building of Tel Aviv (not Jerusalem) where the State of Israel (מדינת ישראל) was declared a nation on Friday, May 14, 1948, by first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, as also witnessed by Meir Dizengoff, the first mayor of Tel Aviv. Beforehand and dating back from the 19th century, Austro-Hungarian Theodor Herzl (the Father of Modern Zionism) visited the land that was Palestine and inhabited by the Arabs and he began to envision there as a State for the Jewish people. Although Herzl passed away in 1905, his dream of the Jewish State has been fulfilled posthumously.Behind where Ben Gurion declared Israel independent on the mic was a photo of Herzl in the latter's honor