Rehovot Yosefzon House, heritage house on Yaakov Street, Rehovot, Israel

Beit Yosefzon, at 20 Yaakov Street, is the first house built in Rehovot, its cornerstone laid in 1890. Its walls mix hamra and straw with kurkar stone, the roof is covered in tiles, and the windows are narrow and long. Inside were a central living room, two small rooms, a kitchen with a baking oven and an air cupboard built into the outer wall, a cellar, a covered balcony and an attic.

Yehuda Leib Yosefzon, who immigrated from Brisk in 1890, bought about 100 dunams from the Menucha VeNachala company and was the first of nine settlers to build on his plot. The cornerstone was laid on 15 Av 5650 (1890) at 20 Yaakov Street. The first general committee of the Rehovot settlement met in the house, and in 2018 the municipality began its restoration; it reopened in 2022 with a restaurant.

The house is named after Yehuda Leib Yosefzon, who built it. According to a folk tale, after buying the Doran lands, Olga Hankin asked Yosefzon and Nisan Kantorovich to spend a night on their plots to establish possession; they camped on two hills and walked toward each other until they could hear each other's call, fixing the spot of their future homes. The first general committee of Rehovot met in this house.

The house stands at 20 Yaakov Street in Rehovot. It was restored in 2021 and a restaurant opened inside in 2022, so the ground floor is entered through the eatery rather than as a museum. The building is recognized as a heritage site by the Council for the Preservation of Heritage Sites in Israel.

A folk tale tells that after buying the Doran lands, Olga Hankin asked Yosefzon and Nisan Kantorovich to spend a night on their plots to establish possession. They climbed two hills on either side of the road, walked toward each other, and stopped where each could hear the other's call — the spot where Yosefzon later built.