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53-592: According to Ira Sharkansky , the mandate of the Jerusalem Development Authority involves "encouraging, planning, and initiating activities concerned with the economic development of Jerusalem and coordinating Jerusalem's economic development among government ministries, municipal officials, and other bodies." Established as a statutory corporation through the Jerusalem Development Authority Law 1988, by 1992

106-645: A compound one kilometre south of Rehovot and then in a large extension of the Sha'araim quarter. The second Zarnuqa incident took place in July 1913 between the colonists and guards of Rehovot, and the Arab rural population is considered by historians as a milestone in Zionist–Arab relations in late Ottoman Palestine. The incident started over simple accusation of theft of grapes from a Jewish-owned vineyard, became much more than

159-564: A dispute over pasture rights erupted between the residents of Rehovot and the neighboring village of Zarnuqa , which took two years to resolve. Another dispute broke out with the Suteriya Bedouin tribe, which had been cultivating some of the land as tenant farmers. According to Moshe Smilansky , one of the early settlers of Rehovot, the Bedouins had received compensation for the land, but refused to vacate it. In 1893, they attacked

212-447: A local incident, which left one Arab and two Jews dead and resulted in tremendous hostility between the two sides. There are various narratives available to researchers today, including Jewish, Arabic sources and external sources. It is difficult to determine whose narrative is closer to historical reality, or to find out who started the fight and who is to be blamed. This incident illustrates the difficult task facing historians in analyzing

265-589: A population of 150,748. Israel Belkind , founder of the Bilu movement, proposed the name "Rehovot" (lit. 'wide expanses') based on Genesis 26:22: "And he called the name of it Rehoboth ; and he said: 'For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land'." This Bible verse is also inscribed in the city's logo. The biblical town of Rehoboth was located in the Negev Desert . Rehovot

318-603: A population of about 18,000, was declared a city. In the immediate years following the establishment of Israel , the Zarnuqa ma'abara (now named Kiryat Moshe ) was established on the Southern side of Rehovot to house Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe and Arab lands . On the Southwest, the neighborhood of Kfar Gevirol (now named Ibn Gevirol , named after Solomon ibn Gabirol , 11th Century Sephardi Jewish Philosopher)

371-683: A population of around 955. In 1920, the Rehovot Railway Station was opened, which greatly boosted the local citrus fruit industry. A few packing houses were built near the station to enable the fruit to be sent by railway to the rest of the country and to the port of Jaffa for export to Europe. According to a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities , Rehovot had a population of 1,242 inhabitants, consisting of 1,241 Jews and 1 Muslim, increasing in 1931 census to 3,193 inhabitants, in 833 houses. In 1924,

424-513: A real change of −5.2% over the course of the previous year. Salaried males had a mean monthly wage of ILS 8,786 (a real change of −4.8%) versus ILS 4,791 for females (a real change of −5.3%). The mean income for the self-employed was 6,806. There were 1,082 people receiving unemployment benefits and 6,627 people receiving an income guarantee. In 2013, Rehovot had the highest average net monthly income among households in Israel, at NIS 16,800. Rehovot

477-598: Is home to numerous industrial plants, and has an industrial park in the western part of the city. Among them are the Tnuva dairy plant, the Yafora-Tavori beverage factory, and the Feldman ice cream factory. The Tamar Science Park, established in 2000, is a high-tech park of 1,000 dunams (1.0 km ) at the northern entrance of the city. The Tamar Science Park adjoins the older Kiryat Weizmann industrial park. Although

530-869: Is home to the Weizmann Institute of Science , the Faculty of Agriculture of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , and the Peres Academic Center College. There are also several smaller colleges in Rehovot that provide specialized and technical training. Kaplan Medical Center acts as an ancillary teaching hospital for the Medical School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Minkov Orchard Museum

583-615: The British Army contracted the Palestine Electric Company for wired electric power. The contract allowed the Electric Company to extend the grid beyond the original geographical limits that had been projected by the concession it was given. The high-tension line that exceeded the limits of the original concession ran along some major towns and agricultural settlements, offering extended connections to

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636-634: The French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem. He is married to Varda, and his children are Stefan, Erica, Tamar, and Mattan. Stefan maintains a blog called the Shark Blog, to which Professor Sharkansky contributes. Rehovot Rehovot ( Hebrew : רְחוֹבוֹת Reḥōvōt [ʁeχoˈvot] / [ʁeˈχovot] ) is a city in the Central District of Israel , about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Tel Aviv . In 2022 it had

689-489: The University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964. His dissertation was published as "Four Agencies and an Appropriations Subcommittee: A comparative study of budget relations". His first academic post was as assistant professor at Ball State University that same year; he subsequently held assistant professorships at Florida State University (1965–1966) and University of Georgia (1966–1968). From 1968 to 1971 he

742-525: The moshava . Through the intervention of a respected Arab sheikh, a compromise was reached, with the Bedouins receiving an additional sum of money, which they used to dig a well. In 1890, the region was an uncultivated wasteland with no trees, houses or water. The moshava's houses were initially built along two parallel streets: Yaakov Street and Benjamin Street, before later expanding, and vineyards , almond orchards and citrus groves were planted, but

795-539: The Authority had invested over $ 1 billion in construction projects and initiatives relating to science and technology in Jerusalem. The Authority was among the factors influencing the decision of Teva Pharmaceuticals in 2003 to build a facility in Jerusalem. Its largest investors, according to Sharkansky, have been prominent Jews from outside Israel. In 2001, Eden, a subsidiary of the Jerusalem Development Authority,

848-576: The Authority's chairman from 1997 to 2003. Teddy Kollek was a key figure behind the Authority's establishment. Moshe Goldstein, once mayor of Ma'aleh Adumim , was chairman of the Authority for three years until 2008. Since 2008 is used Moshe Lion , former director general of the Prime Minister's Office and chairman of Israel Railways. In 2013, Lion resigned from his position in order to run for mayor of Jerusalem. As of 2018, Lion serves as mayor. Moty Hazan, who replaced Israel Bargil as director of

901-650: The Cairo to Haifa train shortly after it left Rehovot, killing 29 British soldiers and injuring 35. Lehi said the bombing was in retaliation for the Ben Yehuda Street bombing a week earlier. The Scotsman reported that both Weizmann's home and the Agricultural Institute were damaged in the explosion, although the site was 1–2 miles [1.6–3.2 km] away. On 28 March 1948, Arabs attacked a Jewish convoy near Rehovot. In 1950, Rehovot, which had

954-429: The Jerusalem Development Authority in 2010, began his involvement with the Jerusalem municipality as a student in the mid-1990s working at the city's call center . Over time he was promoted to a position with the treasury department's budget committee and later to the position of deputy treasurer. Credited for his contribution to balancing the city's budgets and for his involvement in the city's recovery program, by 2010 he

1007-582: The Jerusalem Development Authority's BioJerusalem signed a memorandum of intent with the president of BioMed SA , a San Antonio-based nonprofit initiative operating in the healthcare and bioscience sectors. In 2003 the Jerusalem Development Authority, together with Teva Pharmaceuticals and other investors, founded BioLineRx , a drug development company with headquarters in Jerusalem. In 2006, with additional funding from its investors, BioLineRx launched BioLine Innovations Jerusalem, Israel's first biotechnology incubator. The Jerusalem Development Authority announced

1060-547: The Jerusalem Development Authority, the Jerusalem Municipality, the Prime Minister's Office, and the Ariel Company. First launched in 2009, the festival takes place annually in and around Jerusalem's Old City and features works of light art created by various artists. The Jerusalem Development Authority has proposed the creation of a network of green areas to surround the northern and eastern parts of

1113-553: The Jewish towns of Rishon Le-Zion , Ness Ziona and Rehovot (in spite of their proximity to the high-tension line, the Arab towns of Ramla and Lod remained unconnected). In 1931, the first workers moshav , Kfar Marmorek , was built on lands which were acquired from the village of Zarnuqa by the Jewish National Fund in 1926, and ten Yemenite Jewish families which were evicted from Kinneret were resettled on

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1166-559: The Kibbutz of Kvutzat Shiller and the Moshav of Gibton . Between 1914 and 1991, the town's population rose from 955 to 81,000, and its area more than doubled. Parts of Rehovot's suburbs are built on land that belonged to the village of Zarnuqa before 1948, population 2,620, including 240 Jews in Gibton . In 1995, there were 337,800 people living in the greater Rehovot area. As of 2007 ,

1219-560: The Kiryat Moshe and Oshiot areas. There is a growing community of religious Anglo -speaking people who primarily live in Northern Rehovot around the Weizmann Institute of Science . According to the 2019 census, the population of Rehovot was counted to be 143,904, of which 143,536 people, comprising 99.7% of the city's population were classified as " Jews and Others ", and 368 people, comprising 0.3% as " Arab ". The city

1272-689: The Old City of Jerusalem. The areas, totaling 2,500 dunams (600 acres) in size, would include bike paths and hiking paths making it possible to reach the Pool of Siloam from Mount Scopus . The Jerusalem Development Authority administered the Jerusalem City Walls Conservation Project in cooperation with the Prime Minister's Office and the Israel Antiquities Authority beginning in 2007. Within

1325-599: The Six-Day War. The project, lasting a total of five years, was declared complete in September 2012 after restoration work performed at Lions' Gate – the seventh and last gate to be restored – was concluded. In 2012 the Israeli Cabinet approved the establishment in Jerusalem of a museum dedicated to the legacy of Albert Einstein . A joint project of Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Development Authority,

1378-454: The city after completing their studies. In 2011 a plan by the Jerusalem Development Authority to expand and restructure Jerusalem's academic landscape was announced. Dubbed AcademiCity ( Hebrew : עיר.אקדמיה ), the plan called for the construction of a school for overseas students in downtown Jerusalem, the relocation to Jerusalem of Hebrew University 's Agricultural Department in Rehovot ,

1431-534: The city to Kiryat Gat and Beersheva in the South, while Highway 42 connects it to Ashdod . Highway 40 connects the city to Lod - Ramla to the North, also providing connection to Ben Gurion Airport , and bypassing Metro Tel Aviv along the eastern edge, whereas Highway 42 connects the city to Rishon LeZion and the urban centre of Metro Tel Aviv . Rehovot also has access to the east–west Motorway 431 , connecting

1484-614: The city. It is a historic station that was abandoned in 1948 and reopened in 1990 with a suburban service to Tel Aviv , which is important because many Rehovot residents work in Tel Aviv. More reconstruction work began in 2000, which included the two new passenger terminals, a pedestrian tunnel under the railway, a bus terminal and two large parking lots. The station is situated on the Tel Aviv suburban line ( Binyamina /Netanya – Tel Aviv – Rehovot/ Ashkelon Suburban Service). All trains in this service stop at Rehovot, and some trains terminate at

1537-466: The colonies of Rishon-le-Zion and Rehovot. Only a few dozen Yemenite families had settled in Rehovot by 1908. They built houses for themselves in a plot given to them at the south end of the town, which became known as Sha'araim. In 1910, Shmuel Warshawsky, with the secret support of the JNF , was sent to Yemen to recruit more agricultural laborers. Hundreds arrived starting in 1911 and were housed first in

1590-540: The entire extended science park is largely conceived as an area of Rehovot, the Kiryat Weizmann part is actually under the municipal boundaries of neighbouring Ness Ziona. Tamar Science Park is home to branches of leading hi-tech like Stratasys , Imperva , Applied Materials , El-Op and bio-tech companies like Aleph Farms . During the 1980s, some local swimmers excelled, thanks to the local Weissgal Center Water Park. Rehovot has had three clubs representing it

1643-500: The establishment in Jerusalem of a branch of the Israel Defense Forces' Command and Staff College , and the establishment of a Machon Lev campus for girls in Jerusalem's Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood. Hamshushalayim ( Hebrew : חמשושלים ) is an annual cultural festival initiated by the Jerusalem Development Authority together with the Prime Minister's Office and the Jerusalem municipality. The festival takes its name from

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1696-427: The ethnic makeup of the city was 99.8% Jewish . There were 49,600 males and 52,300 females, of whom 31.6% were 19 years of age or younger, 16.1% between the ages of 20 and 29, 18.2% between 30 and 44, 18.2% from 45 to 59, 3.5% from 60 to 64, and 12.3% 65 years of age or older. The population growth rate was 1.8%. In Rehovot, there are mainly Russian Jews , Yemenite Jews , and Ethiopian Jews , concentrated largely in

1749-534: The fifth and lowest division. List of Rehovot men's football clubs playing at state level and above for the 2023–24 season: Rehovot has one basketball club Maccabi Rehovot B.C. The team plays in the Liga Leumit (basketball) . Rehovot has one handball club Maccabi Rehovot (handball) The team plays in the Ligat Ha'Al (handball) . Rehovot railway station is a suburban commuter railway station serving

1802-564: The framework of the project, by the summer of 2011 half of the Old City walls had undergone cleaning and restoration treatment. Six months of restoration work performed at Zion Gate culminated in a moving rededication ceremony in July 2008 attended by veterans of the Palmach , 468 years after the gate had originally been built. Two months of restoration work performed at Jaffa Gate were completed in April 2010, and an official rededication ceremony

1855-454: The inhabitants grappled with agricultural failures, plant diseases, and marketing problems. The first citrus grove was planted by Zalman Minkov in 1904. Minkov's grove, surrounded by a wall, included a guard house, stables, a packing plant, and an irrigation system in which groundwater was pumped from a large well in the inner courtyard. The well was 23 meters deep, the height of an eight-story building, and over six meters in diameter. The water

1908-585: The land in 1931. Later, they were joined by thirty-five other families from Sha'araim. Today, they are both suburbs of Rehovot. The agricultural research station that opened in Rehovot in 1932 became the Department of Agriculture of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In 1933, a juice factory was built. In 1934, Chaim Weizmann established the Sieff Institute, which later became the Weizmann Institute of Science . In 1937, Weizmann built his home on

1961-468: The land purchased adjacent to the Sieff Institute. The house later served as the presidential residence after Weizmann became president in 1948. Weizmann and his wife are buried on the grounds of the institute. In 1945, Rehovot had a population of 10,020, and in 1948, it had grown to 12,500. The suburb of Rehovot, Kefar Marmorek , had a population of 500 Jews in 1948. On 29 February 1948, the Lehi blew up

2014-550: The late Ottoman Palestine, the period of the early Zionist–Arab encounter and conflict. It is alleged that this was the moment when a previously peaceful co-existence among Jews and Arabs, united under the Ottoman Empire, instantly became an "us vs. them" divisiveness that has prevailed ever since. In February 1914, Rothschild visited Rehovot during the fourth of his five visits to the Land of Israel. That year, Rehovot had

2067-668: The launch of BioJerusalem in mid-2007. The initiative offers monetary incentives to biotechnology companies who relocate their facilities to Jerusalem or set up operations there. In cooperation with Ruach Hadasha, a student-oriented nonprofit, and in an effort to encourage students to remain in Jerusalem after having completed their academic studies, as of 2009 the Jerusalem Development Authority acts as an interface between college and university graduates and more than 100 Jerusalem-based institutions offering internship programs. In addition, students are offered benefits and monetary incentives if they choose to live downtown and commit to remaining in

2120-574: The museum will showcase thousands of documents currently stored at Hebrew University illustrating among other things Einstein's extensive involvement in the Zionist movement in the 1900s. The Safdie Plan was a project initiated by the Israel Land Administration and the Jerusalem Development Authority during the term of Ehud Olmert as mayor of Jerusalem. It called for the construction of 20,000 housing units on undeveloped land to

2173-588: The station. This line connects the city to Tel Aviv via Lod . The city will be served by 5 Metro Stations along one of the Southern Branches of Line M1 as part of the Tel Aviv Metro Project. This line will connect the city to Tel Aviv via Holon . The city is served internally and connected to other cities by bus routes operated by Egged Bus Company . Rehovot is located between Highway 40 and Highway 42 . Highway 40 connects

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2226-521: The top division of Israeli football: Maccabi Rehovot between 1949 and 1956, Maccabi Sha'arayim between 1963 and 1969 and again in 1985, and Hapoel Marmorek in the 1972–73 season . It also has club Bnei Yeechalal which plays at Liga Bet South B. Today Maccabi Sha'arayim and Marmorek play in Liga Alef South, the third level; Maccabi Rehovot and Bnei Yeechalal play in Liga Gimel ,

2279-801: The west of the city. Environmentalists mobilized to have the Safdie Plan scrapped, and it was suspended by Mayor Uri Lupolianski in 2007. Ira Sharkansky Ira Sharkansky (born 1938, Fall River, Massachusetts ) is professor emeritus of political science and public administration at Hebrew University of Jerusalem . He is a prolific author on policy and politics in Israel and the United States. He regularly blogs for The Jerusalem Post and San Diego Jewish World . Sharkansky graduated from Wesleyan University , writing his thesis on "The Portuguese of Fall River: A Study of Ethnic Acculturation". He earned his PhD in political science at

2332-462: The word hamshush , military slang meaning "weekend beginning on Thursday," combined with the Hebrew name for Jerusalem, Yerushalayim . It lasts for three weekends during the month of December and includes free entrance to museums, guided tours, musical performances, and discounted hotels. 480,000 people were drawn to hamshushalayim in 2008. The Jerusalem Festival of Lights is a joint initiative of

2385-651: Was City Hall's preferred candidate for the position of director of the Authority. The Jerusalem Development Authority reached an agreement in 2005 to collaborate with a firm in the Netherlands to promote innovation in the fields of biotechnology, information technology and tourism. The joint venture was conceived as part of the Israel–Europe R&;D Directorate. During a five-day mission to Israel of figures from San Antonio, Texas ' business and academic community in 2011, led by San Antonio mayor Julian Castro ,

2438-543: Was an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, where he advanced to full professor from 1971 to 1975. In 1975 he moved to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was a full professor in the political science and public administration departments until 2005 and professor emeritus thereafter. In 1979 he became a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration . Sharkansky resides in

2491-521: Was channeled via an aqueduct to an irrigation pool, and from there to a network of ditches dug around the bases of the trees. The Great Synagogue of Rehovot was established in 1903, during the First Aliyah period. In 1908, the Workman's Union ( Hapoel Hazair ) organized a group of 300 Yemenite immigrants then living in the region of Jerusalem and Jaffa, bringing them to work as farmers in

2544-492: Was established in 1890 by pioneers of the First Aliyah on the coastal plain near a site called Khirbat Deiran , an "abandoned or sparsely populated" estate, which now lies in the center of the built-up area of the city. According to Marom, Deiran offered "a convenient launching pad for early land purchase initiatives which shaped the pattern of Jewish settlement until the beginning of the British Mandate". Rehovot

2597-467: Was established in Rehovot with the assistance of the Swiss descendants of Zalma Minkov, whose husband planted the city's first citrus grove. Rehovot is also home to the annual Rehovot International Live Statues Festival which includes many international participants. As of 2004 , there were 41,323 salaried workers and 2,683 self-employed. The mean monthly wage for a salaried worker was ILS  6,732,

2650-505: Was established with the aim of developing and reviving Jerusalem's downtown area. By early 2012, Eden had invested NIS 300 million in development projects. Originally conceived as a ten-year operation, it was authorized to continue operating for an additional ten years. Uziel (Uzi) Wexler, who earlier had served as treasurer of the Jerusalem municipality under mayor Teddy Kollek, founded the Jerusalem Development Authority in 1988 and served as its director from 1989 to 1994. He later served as

2703-651: Was founded as a moshava in 1890 by Polish Jewish immigrants who had come with the First Aliyah , seeking to establish a township which would not be under the influence of the Baron Edmond James de Rothschild , on land which was purchased from a Christian Arab by the Menuha Venahala society, an organization in Warsaw that raised funds for Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel . In March 1892,

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2756-466: Was founded on lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Qubayba . Over the years, Kiryat Moshe expanded over the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Zarnuqa . The mosque of the village, while abandoned, still stands. On the Southeast the neighborhood of Ramat Aharon were established. The city has since then expanded in all directions, geographically surrounding but not including

2809-532: Was held to mark the occasion, 472 years after the gate was first dedicated. The restoration of Herod's Gate was completed in June 2010, whereupon a reinauguration ceremony was held attended by the Old City's Nawar mukhtar, Abed-Alhakim Mohammed Deeb Salim. The restoration work at Damascus Gate , lasting more than a year and completed in August 2011, involved the reconstruction of part of a crenellated turret damaged in

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