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ncelled the purchase and forbade them from settling there but they retained the name petah tikva as a symbol of their aspirations in 1878 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 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 7 abdul hamid ii allowed the purchase because of the poor quality of the land 8 in a microhistorical anecdote of petah tikva yehuda raab one of the hungarian settlers recalls in his memoirs meeting a baghdadi jew daud abu yusuf who despite appearing as a bedouin announced ana israʾili lit i am jewish and recited the shema by way of proof yusuf along with a moroccan jew from jaffa 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 the horse and camel trade from the world of the ashkenazi jewish immigrants and that of the eastern or maghrebi jews today called mizrahi jews 9 a malaria epidemic broke out in 1880 forcing the abandonment of the settlements on both holdings by 1881 10 or 1882 11 12 those who remained in the area moved south to yehud after petah tikva was reoccupied by chovovei tzion immigrants in 1883 some of the original families returned with funding for swamp drainage provided by baron edmond de rothschild the colony became more stable 13 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 14 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 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 15 david ben gurion lived in petah tikva for a few months on his arrival in mutasarrifate of jerusalem in 1906 it had a population of around 1000 half of them farmers he found occasional work in the orange groves 16 but he soon caught malaria and his doctor recommended he return to europe 17 the following year after moving to jaffa he set up a jewish workers organisation in petah tikva 18 during the sinai and palestine campaign of world war i petah tikva served as a refuge for residents expelled from tel aviv and jaffa by the ottoman authorities and suffered heavily while lying between the ottoman and british fronts the 1915 ottoman syria locust infestation in particular caused extensive losses approximately 6 065 of its 7 665 dunams citrus plantations 80 were destroyed 19 british mandate edit petah tikva peace treaty 1927 aerial view of petah tikva late 1930s 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 1921 jaffa riots 20 in 1927 petah tikva concluded a local peace treaty with the arabs living nearby subsequently petah tikva was untouched by the 1929 palestine riots according to the 1922 census conducted by the british mandate authorities petah tikva had a total population of 3 032 3 008 jews 22 muslims and 2 orthodox christians 21 22 petah tikva council in 1928 by the time the 1931 census was taken the population had increased to 6 880 inhabitants in 1 688 houses 23 in 1937 it 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 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 24 in 1931 ben gurion wrote that petah tikva had 5000 inhabitants and employed 3000 arab labourers 25 in the 1930s the pioneering founders of kvutzat yavne from the religious zionist movement immigrated to the british mandate 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 26 state of israel edit neve gan neighborhood after the 1948 arab israeli war petah tikva annexed all of the lands of the newly depopulated palestinian arab village of fajja 27 the city has suffered 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 28 on december 25 2003 a suicide bomber blew himself up at a bus stop near the geha bridge killing 4 civilians 29 30 31 and on february 5 2006 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 32 residential high rises in petah tikva after the independence of israel on 14 may 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 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 2026 with a population of over 240 000 inhabitants petah tikva is the second most populous city in the gush dan metropolitan area petah tikva is divided into 33 neighborhoods for municipal purposes 33 petah tikva grand mall on june 16 2025 an iranian missile hit a 20 story building killing four people including holocaust survivor ivette shmilovitz 34 35 demographics edit year population 36 37 1972 93 500 1983 124 300 1995 149 600 2008 200 300 2022 264 046 2024 270 403 religion edit great synagogue of petah tikva some 70 000 orthodox jews live in petah tikva the community of petah tikva is served by 300 synagogues 38 including the 120 year old great synagogue 39 eight mikvaot ritual baths 40 and two major haredi yeshivot lomzhe yeshiva and or yisrael founded by the chazon ish rabbi avraham yeshayahu karelitz 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 stylized in all caps health edit rabin medical center six hospitals are located in the city the rabin medical center 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 41 other medical facilities in petah tikva are hasharon hospital the beit rivka geriatric center 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 a haredi hospital in nearby bnei brak education edit ahad haam high school 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 the main one located in the city hall building 42 the ahad haam high school named after asher zvi hirsch ginsberg is located in petah tikva the high school won the national education award for 2010 from the israeli ministry of education in recognition of its excellence in education and outstanding matriculation rate 95 32 43 the high school campus also houses the open university s petah tikva college government edit petah tikva city hall petah tikva s history of government goes back to 1880 when 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 the political party founded by former israeli prime minister ariel sharon had its headquarters in petah tikva 44 yehoshua stampfer council heads and mayors edit shlomo zalman gissin 1921 pinchas meiri 1922 1928 45 shlomo stampfer 1928 1937 shlomo stampfer 1938 1940 yosef sapir 1940 1950 mordechai krausman 1951 pinchas rashish 1951 1966 yisrael feinberg 1966 1978 dov tavori 1978 1989 giora lev 1989 1999 yitzhak ohayon 1999 2013 uri ohad 2013 itzik braverman 2013 2018 rami greenberg 2018 46 voting patterns edit in the 2022 election 56 percent of voters in petah tikva voted for the parties of the right wing coalition led by benjamin netanyahu while 41 percent voted for the parties of the center left coalition led by yair lapid and 0 1 percent voted for the arab parties 47 economy edit azorim park petah tikva is the second largest industrial sector in israel after 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 48 the ibm building in petah tikva numerous high tech companies and start ups have moved into the industrial zones of petah tikva which now house the israeli headquarters for the oracle corporation ibm intel alcatel lucent eci telecom gilat satellite networks gilat telecom migdal idi and gsk plc company the largest data center in israel operated by the triplec company is also located in petah tikva 49 furthermore the teva pharmaceuticals 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 the company s administrative offices distribution center and sauce factory strauss group is also based in petach tikva 50 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 51 as well as general hi tech firms petah tikva has developed a position as a base for many communications firms as such the headquarters of the bezeq company is located in the kiryat matalon industrial zone as are those of the 012 smile telecom 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 is located as well as the printing press for its b sheva newspaper 52 the israeli secret service shin bet has an interrogation facility in petah tikva 53 culture edit petah tikva museum of art 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 jaffa riots an archaeological display yad labanim soldiers memorial a local history museum a holocaust museum and the petah tikva museum of art 54 55 sports edit hamoshava stadium 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 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 israeli arab women to play on the team one of them is now a team captain 56 archaeology edit founders square in november december 2006 and may 2007 a salvage excavation was conducted at tel mulabbis east of moshe sneh street in petah tikva on behalf of 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 57 transportation edit main article transport in petah tikva bus edit petah tikva central bus station 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 is the petah tikva central bus station tahana merkazit while other major stations are located near rabin medical center and beit rivka mainline rail edit kiryat aryeh railway station 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 road transport edit there are eight taxi fleets based in petah tikva and 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 n...