Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva is a city in the Central District of Israel, 10.6 km east of Tel Aviv. It became founded in 1878, specifically by means of Orthodox Jews of the Old Yishuv, and became a permanent settlement in 1883 with the monetary help of Baron Edmond de Rothschild. Petah Tikva turned into founded in 1878 by means of religious pioneers from Europe, who had been led by means of Yehoshua Stampfer, Moshe Shmuel Raab, Yoel Moshe Salomon, Zerach Barnett, and David Gutmann, in addition to Lithuanian Rabbi Aryeh Leib Frumkin who built the primary residence there.

After the advent of the State of Israel in 1948, numerous adjoining villages – Amishav and Ein Ganim to the east named after the biblical village Joshua 15:34, Kiryat Matalon to the west, closer to Bnei Brak, Kfar Ganim and Mahaneh Yehuda to the south and Kfar Avraham at the north – had been merged into the municipal barriers of Petah Tikva, giving it a substantial population raise to 22,000. Nowadays, with a populace of over hundred thousand population Petah Tikva is the third most populous town inside the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area.

Petah Tikva is split into 33 neighborhoods for municipal functions. The largest data center in Israel, operated by way of the employer TripleC, is likewise located in Petah Tikva. Furthermore, the Israeli Teva company, the arena's biggest widely wide-spread drug manufacturer, is situated in Petah Tikva. One of Israel's main food processing companies, Osem opened in Petah Tikva in 1976 and has for the reason that been joined by using the employer's administrative places of work, distribution middle and sauce manufacturing unit. Strauss is likewise primarily based in Petach Tikva.