This leading metropolis of northeast Brazil, home of the oldest, organized Jewish community in the Western Hemisphere, formally dedicated today a street which here after will be called Israel Street.
Yosef Tekoah, Israeli Ambassador to Brazil, came here from his mission’s headquarters at Rio de Janeiro to attend the ceremonies. The first Jewish community in the Western Hemisphere was formed here in the seventeenth century by Jews who emigrated to Recife from Amsterdam, Holland.
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