 Lots were cast and founder Yosef Rivlin won the right to build the first house in the neighborhood..The other seven founders were Yehoshua Yellin, Michele Hacohen, Binyamin Salant, Haim Halevi and Aryeh Leib Horowitz.In 1873, milk cows were imported from Amsterdam and a dairy was opened in Nahalat Shiv'a.