The Visokers of Wysokie were among the Rishonim, the founders, and are documented as such in this official history of Petach-Tikva (in Hebrew).
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Visokers In Petach Tikvah, Israel, date unknown.
Israel Visoker is seated at the far right. |
Among those listed as the generation of those who carried on in the Petakh-Tikvah history: Isaac-Yakov and Kopel Visoker.
Listed among the sons of the first settlers: Avraham-Tzvi, David, Khyaim-Lieb, Yaakov, Israel, Moshe, Eliyah-Eizik.
Later that year, about the Visoker family farm allocation 20.10.1903:
Item 8 [of 9 requests to Baron de Rothschild, the sponsor of Petach-Tikvah] states that the colony's request to allot the Visoker family 100 dunam [1 dunam = 1000m sq] from the new farm, is granted on condition that they deposit in the bank the amount of 1000 FF [French Francs] that was collected in the colony and the rest of the sum will be paid within 12 years in this way: the first 2 years – 50 FF a year, the next 2 years – 100 FF a year, the third two years – 150 FF a year, the next 2 years 200 FF and in the 4 last years – 250 FF a year. The Visoker family must acquire promissory notes guaranteed by the committee of the village for those sums.
| Notes: Item 8: ...of 9 requests to Baron de Rothschild, the sponsor of Petach-Tikvah. |
