 Located in Tel Aviv District, it had a population of in .Mikveh Israel was founded in the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire in April 1870 by Charles Netter, an emissary of the French organization Alliance Israélite Universelle, aiming to be an educational institution where young Jews could learn agriculture and leave to establish villages and settlements all over the country and to make the desert blossom.It was established on a tract of land southeast of Jaffa leased from the Ottoman Sultan, who allocated to the project.