Cholon

This article covers the Israeli city of Cholon / Holon. In Vietnam, Cholon refers to the 5th district ( Quận 5 ) of Ho Chi Minh City . Cholón is the name of a South American language, see Hibito-Cholón . For the philosophical concept, see Holon (philosophy) . The Peruvian district is described under Cholón (Peru) .

Cholon
Basic data
hebrew :	חולון
arabic :	حولون
State :	Israel
District :	Tel Aviv
Founded :	1936
Coordinates :	32 ° 1 ′  N , 34 ° 45 ′  E Coordinates: 32 ° 0 ′ 51 ″  N , 34 ° 45 ′ 6 ″  E
Height :	20  m
Area :	18.927  km²
Residents :	194,273 (as of 2018)
Population density :	10,264 inhabitants per km²
Community code :	6600
Time zone :	UTC + 2
Postal code :	33000
Community type:	City administration
Website :	www.holon.muni.il
Cholon

The new design museum

Cholon (alternatively Holon , Hebrew חולון, Arabic حولون) is a city in Israel in the Gush Dan metropolitan area south of Tel Aviv . It borders on Bat Jam to the west and Rishon leTzion to the south .

Cholon is one of the largest cities in Israel. The city is an industrial suburb of Tel Aviv. It is the second largest industrial zone in Israel after Haifa . The city is home to almost half of the Samaritan community.

history

Cholon was named after the sand (Hebrew: Chol) on which it was founded and at the same time after a city in the territory of the Yehuda (Judah) tribe (Joshua 15:51). In the urban area are the remains of the ancient city of Azor . The settlement of Cholon was founded in 1934 . In 1950 it received city ​​administration status .

There is a small Samaritan community in Cholon .

Residents

In the censuses of November 8, 1948, May 22, 1961, May 19, 1972, June 4, 1983, November 4, 1995 and December 28, 2008, the Israeli Central Statistical Office gives the following population figures for Cholon:

Year of the census	1948	1961	1972	1983	1995	2008	2015	2016	2017
Number of inhabitants	9,561	48,970	98,779	133,460	163,082	170,633	188,834	190,838	192.624

mayor

• 1950–1953 Chaim sphere
• 1953–1987 Pinchas Eylon
• 1987-1988 Chaim Sharon
• 1988–1993 Mosque of Rome
• since 1993 Moti Sasson

Sports

Cholon has a well-known basketball club called Hapoel . The city's most famous football club is Zafririm ; this club has played in the Israeli third division since 2004.

The Israeli soccer player Ben Sahar was born in Cholon and played at Hertha BSC in Berlin , among others .

Culture

Cholon is the site of the annual Israeli Song Days ( Yeme Zemer ). A cultural highlight is the annual musical summer school organized by Daniel Barenboim .

Cholon has a well-known children's museum, the Holon Children's Museum in which u. a. Blindness and deafness can be simulated, one of the largest public libraries in the country ( Mediatech ), a design museum designed by Ron Arad since 2010 , the Egged bus museum with over 60 historic buses from the time of Israel's emergence and the national comic book Museum ( Israeli Museum of Caricature and Comics ). The Israeli Center for Digital Art has also been in existence in the Jessy Cohen district since 2010 . A special feature of the CDA is that it actively involves the neighborhood, which is characterized by former immigrant families with low incomes, in its activities.

Personalities

• David D'Or (* 1965), counter-tenor
• Dana International (* 1969), pop singer
• Dan Ettinger (* 1971), conductor
• Eli Cohen (* 1972), politician
• Eran Kolirin (* 1973), director
• Lior Narkis (born 1976), singer
• David Ben Dayan (* 1978), football player
• Omri Casspi (* 1988), basketball player
• Ben Sahar (* 1989), football player

Town twinning

The coats of arms of the twin cities in Cholon

• Suresnes , France , since 1961
• Mitte district , Berlin , Germany , founded in 1980 with the Berlin district of Wedding , which merged into the new Mitte district in 2001
• Hann. Münden , Lower Saxony , Germany , since 1988
• Dayton , Ohio , United States , since 1998
• Anshan , People's Republic of China , since 2000

Web links

Commons : Holon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The City website (English)
• The football club Zafririm Holon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Wolfgang Scheel: Lexicon of biblical names of places in modern Israel . 3. Edition. Hammerbrücke 2003, ISBN 3-933750-32-6 , p .70
3. ↑ David Ben-Shlomo: The Azor Cemetery, Moshe Dothan's Excavations 1958 and 1960 . Jerusalem 2012, ISBN 978-965-406-285-5 , p. 1
4. ^ Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
5. ↑ The Israeli Center for Digital Art. In: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Israel Office. June 2016. Retrieved October 16, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Dafna Shalom: Identity and Identification: Pictures from the Jessy Cohen Quarter in Holon. In: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Israel Office. February 2017. Retrieved October 17, 2017 . 
7. ↑ The Israeli Center for Digital Art. (No longer available online.) In: Holon municipality. Archived from the original on October 27, 2017 ; accessed on October 26, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ City partner & city friendships of the city of Hann. Münden , from www.hann.muenden.de, accessed on June 17, 2018