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52-617: In 2022, the city had a population of 255,387, being so the fifth-largest city in Israel. Its population density is approximately 6,277 inhabitants per square kilometre (16,260/sq mi). Its jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams (~35.9 km or 15 sq mi). Petah Tikva is part of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area . Petah Tikva takes its name (meaning "Door of Hope") from the biblical allusion in Hosea 2:15: "... and make

104-464: A noria he noticed an ancient sarcophagus , placed there as a trough . An Ottoman village list from about 1870 found that el-jehudie had a population of 835, in 246 houses, though the population count included men, only. In 1882, the PEF 's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described the place as "a large mud village, supplied by a pond, and surrounded by palm-trees." They also noted

156-706: A Haredi hospital in nearby Bnei Brak. Petah Tikva's Independence Park includes a zoo at its northeastern edge, the Museum of Man and Nature, a memorial to the victims of the 1921 Arab riots, an archaeological display, Yad Labanim soldiers' memorial, a local history museum, a Holocaust museum and the Petah Tikva Museum of Art . The main stadium in Petah Tikva is the 11,500-seat HaMoshava Stadium . Petah Tikva has two football teams – Hapoel Petah Tikva and Maccabi Petah Tikva . The local baseball team,

208-531: A Palestinian got into a shuttle taxi, pulled out a knife, and began stabbing passengers killing two of them, but a worker from a nearby factory hit him with a log, subduing him. After the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, several adjoining villages–Amishav and Ein Ganim to the east (named after the biblical village (Joshua 15:34)), Kiryat Matalon to the west, towards Bnei Brak , Kfar Ganim and Mahaneh Yehuda to

260-534: A city council by the Interior Ministry when its population exceeds 20,000. The term "city" does not generally refer to local councils or urban agglomerations , even though a defined city often contains only a small portion of an urban area or metropolitan area 's population. Israel has 16 cities with populations over 100,000, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-Yafo . In all, there are 77 Israeli localities granted "municipalities" (or "city") status by

312-529: A few kilometers to the south of the Yarkon, away from the swampland. It was Qassar's that was purchased on July 30, 1878. Tayan's holdings were purchased when a second group of settlers, known as the Yarkonim, arrived in Petah Tikva the following year. Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II allowed the purchase because of the poor quality of the land. In a microhistorical anecdote of Petah Tikva, Yehuda Raab, one of

364-454: A four-year-old girl among them). An armored British police vehicle was fired upon by the attackers. On September 13, 1948, David Ben-Gurion requested the destruction of Al-'Abbasiyya, among other Palestinian villages whose inhabitants fled or were expelled. Between 1948 and 1954 the Israeli sites of Yehud , Magshimim , Ganne Yehuda , Ganne Tiqwa , and Savyon were established on

416-526: A population of 126 Muslim households and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summer crops or fruit trees, sesame, and goats or beehives. In 1838 it was noted as a Muslim village called el-Yehudiyeh in the Lydda administrative region. The French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village, which he called Yehoudieh , in 1863, and found it to have a population of more than 1,000 people. The houses were made of adobe bricks, several topped by palm leaves. Near

468-664: A position as a base for many communications firms. As such, the headquarters of the Bezeq International international phone company is located in the Kiryat Matalon industrial zone as are those of the 012 Smile Internet Service Provider . The headquarters of Tadiran Telecom are in the Ramat Siv industrial zone. Arutz Sheva , the right wing Religious Zionist Israeli media network, operates an internet radio studio in Petah Tikva, where Arutz Sheva internet TV

520-475: A public park. The structure is supported from a 29-metre (95 ft) high inclined steel pylon, which is situated where the three spans intersect. Light in construction, the bridge is built principally of steel with a glass-paved deck. The Red Line of the Greater Tel Aviv rapid transit / light rail system connects Petah Tikva to Bnei Brak , Ramat Gan , Tel Aviv and Bat Yam . The Red Line of

572-479: A ruined tank, or birkeh, to the south of the village. In the 1922 census of Palestine , conducted by the British Mandate authorities , Yahudiyeh had a population of 2,437 residents, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census , when Yahudiya had a population of 3,258 residents; 3,253 Muslims and 5 Christians, in a total of 772 houses. The previous name, Al-Yahudiya , is thought to be taken from

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624-556: A series of terror attacks as a result of the ongoing regional conflict , including the bombing of a vegetable market in 1977 , and three attacks during the Second Intifada : On May 27, 2002, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a small cafe outside a shopping mall, leaving two dead, including a baby; on December 25, 2003, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a bus stop near the Geha bridge, killing 4 civilians, and on February 5, 2006,

676-556: Is located as well as the printing press for its B'Sheva newspaper. The Israeli secret service, Shin Bet , has an interrogation facility in Petah Tikva. Petah Tikva is served by a large number of buses. A large number of intercity Egged buses stop there, and the city has a network of local buses operated by the Kavim company. The Dan bus company operates lines to Ramat Gan , Bnei Brak and Tel Aviv . Petah Tikva's largest bus terminal

728-581: Is the Petah Tikva Central Bus Station (Tahana Merkazit), while other major stations are located near Beilinson Hospital and Beit Rivka . Israel Railways maintains two suburban railroad stations in Segula and Kiryat Aryeh , in the northern part of the city. A central train station near the main bus station is envisioned as part of Israel Railways's long-term expansion plan. There are eight taxi fleets based in Petah Tikva, and

780-520: The British Mandate of Palestine , settling near Petah Tikva on land purchased by a Jewish-owned German company. Refining the agricultural skills they learned in Germany, these pioneers began in 1941 to build their kibbutz in its intended location in the south of Israel, operating from Petah Tikva as a base. After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , Petah Tikva annexed all of the lands of the newly depopulated Palestinian village of Fajja . The city has suffered

832-597: The Israel Antiquities Authority . Four main strata (I–IV) were identified, dating to the Byzantine period (fourth–seventh centuries CE; Stratum IV), Early Islamic period (eighth–tenth centuries CE; Stratum III), Crusader period (twelfth–thirteenth centuries CE; Stratum II) and Ottoman period (Stratum I). Petah Tikva is referenced in the Tony Award -winning 2016 musical The Band's Visit as

884-560: The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics : mid-1800s ( West Jerusalem ) 1887 ( Neve Tzedek )  The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is not officially recognized by the United Nations , recognized only by Turkey ; see Cyprus dispute . Yahudiya Al-'Abbasiyya ( Arabic : العبْاسِيّة ), also known as al-Yahudiya ( Arabic : اليهودية ), was a Palestinian Arab village in

936-645: The Jaffa Subdistrict . It was attacked under Operation Hametz during the 1948 Palestine War , and finally depopulated under Operation Dani . It was located 13 km east of Jaffa . Some of the remains of the village can be found today in the centre of the modern Israeli city of Yehud . In 1596, Yahudiya appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Ramla of the Liwa of Gaza. It had

988-577: The Jerusalem Law . This, however, is not recognized by the international community who regard East Jerusalem to be Palestinian territory held under Israeli occupation . If East Jerusalem is considered part of Israel, Tel Aviv is the country's second most populous city with 452,000 residents after Jerusalem with 919,000; if not, Tel Aviv is the most populous city before West Jerusalem with around 350,000. The following table lists all Israeli cities by name, district, population, and area, according to

1040-577: The Petach Tikva Pioneers , played in the inaugural 2007 season of the Israel Baseball League . The league folded the following year. In 2014, Hapoel Petah Tikva's women's football team recruited five Arab-Israeli women to play on the team. One of them is now a team captain. In November–December 2006 and May 2007, a salvage excavation was conducted at Khirbat Mulabbis, east of Moshe Sneh Street in Petah Tikva on behalf of

1092-619: The Religious Zionist movement, directed by Rabbi Yuval Cherlow , is also located in Petah Tikva. Additionally, Rav Michael Laitman, PhD in Philosophy and Kabbalah (see Bnei Baruch ), daily leads 200-300 students and hundreds of thousands virtually (some estimates of up to 2 million) in the method of Kabbalah learned from his teacher Rav Baruch Ashlag , known as the RABASH. Petah Tikva has two cemeteries: Segula Cemetery, east of

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1144-630: The Tel Aviv Light Rail system is split into 2 branches upon entrance to Petah Tikva. One branch travels to an underground terminal at the Kiryat Aryeh railway station, while the other continues east to the Petach Tikva Central Bus Station. The Light Rail's train depot is also located at Kiryat Aryeh. It was opened to service on August 18, 2023. Petah Tikva's history of government goes back to 1880, when

1196-650: The 73 localities in Israel that the Israeli Ministry of Interior has designated as a city council . It excludes the 4 Israeli settlements in the West Bank designated as cities , but occupied East Jerusalem is included within Jerusalem. The list is based on the current index of the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) . Within Israel's system of local government , an urban municipality can be granted

1248-460: The Arabs living nearby; subsequently, Petah Tikva was untouched by the 1929 Palestine riots . According to the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities , Petah Tikva had a total population of 3,032: 3,008 Jews, 22 Muslims and 2 Orthodox Christians. By the time the 1931 census was taken, the population had increased to 6,880 inhabitants in 1,688 houses. In 1937, it

1300-636: The Austrian consulate issued a Hebrew stamp and a special postmark for Petah Tikva. The stamp was designed by an unknown artist featuring a plow, green fields and a blossoming orange tree. The price was 14 paras (a Turkish coin) and displayed the name 'Petah Tikva' in Hebrew letters. David Ben Gurion lived in Petah Tikva for a few months on his arrival in Palestine in 1906. It had a population of around 1000, half of them farmers. He found occasional work in

1352-651: The Hungarian settlers, recalls in his memoirs meeting a Baghdadi Jew , Daud abu Yusuf, who despite appearing as a Bedouin , announced “ana Israʾili,” I am Jewish , and recited the shema by way of proof. Yusuf, along with a Moroccan Jew from Jaffo , Yaʿqub bin Maymun Zirmati, was hired as a guard for colony; it was customary for European Jewish colonies to hire local Arab guards or in some cases Yemenite Jews . Both were Ottoman imperial subjects and were important cultural and linguistic go-betweens, for example in

1404-589: The Kupat Holim Medical Research Center and a private hospital, Ramat Marpeh, affiliated with Assuta Hospital. The Schneider Pediatric Center is one of the largest and most modern children's hospitals in the Middle East. In addition, there are many family health clinics in Petah Tikva as well as Kupat Holim clinics operated by Israel's health maintenance organizations . The city is also served by Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center ,

1456-587: The Ministry of the Interior, including four Israeli settlements in the West Bank . Two more cities are planned: Kasif , a planned city to be built in the Negev , and Harish , originally a small town currently being built into a large city. The area and population of Jerusalem includes that of East Jerusalem which has been de facto annexed by Israel and incorporated within Jerusalem's municipal borders under

1508-572: The Ottoman and British fronts during the war. In the early 1920s, industry began to develop in the Petah Tikva region. In 1921, Petah Tikva was granted local council status by the British authorities. In May 1921, Petah Tikva was the target of an Arab attack, which left four of its Jewish inhabitants dead–an extension of the Jaffa riots of 1921 . In 1927, Petah Tikva concluded a local peace treaty with

1560-690: The city is bordered by three of the major vehicle arteries in Israel: Geha Highway ( Highway 4 ) on the west, the Trans-Samaria Highway ( Highway 5 ) on the north, and the Trans-Israel Highway ( Highway 6 ) on the east. Santiago Calatrava 's bridge, a 50 metres (160 ft) long span Y-shaped cable-stayed pedestrian three-way bridge connecting Rabin Hospital to a shopping mall, a residential development and

1612-896: The city, and Yarkon Cemetery, to the northeast. Six hospitals are located in the city. The Rabin Medical Center Beilinson complex includes the Beilinson Medical Center, the Davidoff Oncologic Center, the Geha Psychiatric Hospital, the Schneider Pediatric Hospital and Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Medical Research. Other medical facilities in Petah Tikva are HaSharon Hospital, the Beit Rivka Geriatric Center,

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1664-611: The colony became more stable. In March 1886, Arab peasants from Yahudiya attacked the Jewish colony, injuring 5, with one dying later, possibly due to aggravation of her preexisting condition. This was called the first violent clash in the Yishuv by Moshe Smilansky . Upon learning that the Austrian post office in Jaffa wanted to open a branch in Petah Tikva, Yitzchak Goldenhirsch, an early resident, offered his assistance on condition that

1716-521: The company's administrative offices, distribution center and sauce factory. Strauss is also based in Petach Tikva. Over time, the extensive citrus groves that once ringed Petah Tikva have disappeared as real-estate developers acquired the land for construction projects. Many new neighborhoods are going up in and around Petah Tikva. A quarry for building stone is located east of Petah Tikva. As well as general hi-tech firms, Petah Tikva has developed

1768-621: The first modern Jewish agricultural settlement in Ottoman Southern Syria (hence its nickname as "Mother of the Moshavot "). Originally intending to establish a new settlement in the Achor Valley , near Jericho , the settlers purchased land in that area. However, Abdülhamid II cancelled the purchase and forbade them from settling there, but they retained the name Petah Tikva as a symbol of their aspirations. In 1878,

1820-504: The founders of Petah Tikva learned of the availability of land northeast of Jaffa near the village of Mulabes (or Umlabes). The land was owned by two Christian businessmen from Jaffa, Antoine Bishara Tayan and Selim Qassar, and was worked by some thirty tenant farmers. Tayan's property was the larger, some 8,500 dunams, but much of it was in the malarial swamp of the Yarkon Valley . Qassar's property, approximately 3,500 dunams, lay

1872-410: The hard-right paramilitary organization Irgun attacked the village, approaching from the Jewish town of Petaḥ Tiqvah . The attackers wore khaki uniforms and drove through the village in four cars. One group fired on villagers at a cafe and another set bombs and grenades in houses. Seven Arabs were killed (two women and two children under the age of five) and seven others seriously wounded (two women and

1924-622: The horse and camel trade, from the world of the Ashkenazi Jewish colonists and that of the Eastern or Maghribi Jews , today called Mizrahi Jews . A malaria epidemic broke out in 1880, forcing the abandonment of the settlements on both holdings by 1881 or 1882. Those who remained in the area moved south to Yehud . After Petah Tikva was reoccupied by Bilu immigrants in 1883, some of the original families returned. With funding for swamp drainage provided by Baron Edmond de Rothschild ,

1976-667: The industrial zones of Petah Tikva, which now house the Israeli headquarters for the Oracle Corporation , IBM , Intel , Alcatel-Lucent , ECI Telecom , and GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals. The largest data center in Israel, operated by the company TripleC, is also located in Petah Tikva. Furthermore, the Israeli Teva company, the world's largest generic drug manufacturer, is headquartered in Petah Tikva. One of Israel's leading food processing corporations, Osem opened in Petah Tikva in 1976 and has since been joined by

2028-595: The land of Al-'Abbasiyya. In 1992 the village site was described: The main mosque and the shrine of al-Nabi Huda till stand. The mosque is deserted and beginning to crack in several places; the shrine is made of stone and surmounted with a dome. There is also an Israeli coffee shop, called the Tehr coffee shop, at the entrance of a main street that was called Ziqaq al-Raml ("Sand Lane"). A number of houses remain; they have been occupied by Yehud's Jewish residents or put to other uses. One residential house, made of concrete, has

2080-505: The main one located in the city hall building. Some 70,000 Orthodox Jews live in Petah Tikva. The community of Petah Tikva is served by 300 synagogues, including the 120-year-old Great Synagogue , eight mikvaot (ritual baths) and two major Haredi yeshivot , Lomzhe Yeshiva and Or-Yisrael (founded by the Chazon Ish , Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz). Yeshivat Hesder Petah Tikva , a Modern Orthodox Hesder Yeshiva affiliated with

2132-620: The main plot derives from a mix-up between the city and the fictional town of "Bet Hatikva" in the Negev Desert of southern Israel. Petah Tikva is known for being a part of a satirical conspiracy theory which claims that it does not exist, much like the German Bielefeld conspiracy . "Free Petah Tikvah" became a meme during 2023. Petah Tikva is twinned with: List of cities in Israel This article lists

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2184-620: The memory of a sheikh called al-'Abbas who was buried in the town, but also alluded to the Arab Muslim Abbasid Caliphate . In the 1945 statistics , the population had increased to 5,800; 5,630 Muslims, 150 Jews, and 20 Christians, with a total of 20,540 dunums of land. Of this, a total of 4,099 dunums was used for citrus and bananas , 1,019 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards, 14,465 were for cereals, while 101 dunams were classified as built-up areas. On December 13, 1947, twenty-four armed men from

2236-564: The name of the biblical town of Yahud, mentioned in Joshua 19:45 (as part of a list of towns comprising the territory of the Israelite tribe of Dan ), and later called Iudaea by the Romans. In 1932, the town was officially renamed Al-'Abbasiyya, because the inhabitants did not want the town to be associated with Jews . The name chosen as a replacement, Al-'Abbasiyya, was mostly in honour of

2288-551: The northern city of Haifa . The industry is divided into three zones—Kiryat Aryeh (named after Arie Shenkar, founder and first president of the Manufacturers Association of Israel and a pioneer in the Israeli textile industry), Kiryat Matalon (named after Moshe Yitzhak Matalon), and Segula, and includes textiles, metalwork, carpentry, plastics, processed foods, tires and other rubber products, and soap. Numerous high-tech companies and start-ups have moved into

2340-478: The orange groves. But, he soon caught malaria and his doctor recommended he return to Europe. The following year, after moving to Jaffa , he set up a Jewish workers organisation in Petah Tikva. During the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I , Petah Tikva served as a refugee town for residents of Tel Aviv and Jaffa , following their exile by the Ottoman authorities. The town suffered heavily as it lay between

2392-401: The pioneers elected a council of seven members to run the new colony. From 1880 to 1921, members of the council were David Meir Guttman, Yehoshua Stampfer, Ze'ev Wolf Branda, Abraham Ze'ev Lipkis, Yitzhak Goldenhirsch, Chaim Cohen-Rice, Moshe Gissin, Shlomo Zalman Gissin and Akiva Librecht . This governing body was declared a local council in 1921, and Petah Tikva became a city in 1937. Kadima ,

2444-411: The political party founded by former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon , had its headquarters in Petah Tikva. Petah Tikva is home to 300 educational institutions from kindergarten through high school, catering to the secular, religious and Haredi populations. There are over 43,000 students enrolled in these schools, which are staffed by some 2,400 teachers. Petah Tikva has seventeen public libraries,

2496-418: The relatively large Jewish settlement of Petah-Tikva. But, it was only in late 1929 that the company submitted an irrigation scheme for Petah-Tikva, and it was yet to be approved by the government in 1930. In 1931, Ben Gurion wrote that Petah Tikva had 5000 inhabitants and employed 3000 Arab labourers. In the 1930s, the pioneering founders of Kibbutz Yavneh from the Religious Zionist movement immigrated to

2548-430: The south and Kfar Avraham on the north–were merged into the municipal boundaries of Petah Tikva, boosting its population to 22,000. As of 2018, with a population of over 240,000 inhabitants, Petah Tikva is the third most populous city in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area ("Gush Dan"). Petah Tikva is divided into 33 neighborhoods for municipal purposes. Petah Tikva is the second-largest industrial sector in Israel after

2600-517: The valley of Achor a door of hope." The Achor Valley , near Jericho , was the original proposed location for the town. Tell Mulabbis, an archaeological mound in modern Petah Tikva, is an important archaeological site from the Yarkon River basin, with habitation remains from the Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic, Crusader, Mamluk and Late Ottoman periods. The place was inhabited sporadically, and

2652-511: Was known in Arabic as Mulabbis , and was the site of a Palestinian village of the same name, inhabited by the Abu Hamed al-Masri clan. Petah Tikva was founded in 1878 by Jewish settlers from Europe, among them Yehoshua Stampfer , Moshe Shmuel Raab, Yoel Moshe Salomon , Zerach Barnett , and David Gutmann, as well as Lithuanian Rabbi Aryeh Leib Frumkin who built the first house. It was

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2704-481: Was recognized as a city. Its first mayor, Shlomo Stampfer, was the son of one of its founders, Yehoshua Stampfer . Petah Tikva, a center of citrus farming, was considered by both the British government and the Jaffa Electric Company as a potentially important consumer of electricity for irrigation. The Auja Concession, which was granted to the Jaffa Electric Company on 1921, specifically referred to

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