Herzlia
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hebrew : | הרצליה | ||
arabic : | هيرتزيليا | ||
State : | Israel | ||
District : | Tel Aviv | ||
Founded : | 1924 | ||
Coordinates : | 32 ° 9 ' N , 34 ° 51' E | ||
Area : | 21.585 km² | ||
Residents : | 95,142 (as of 2018) | ||
Population density : | 4,408 inhabitants per km² | ||
Community code : | 6400 | ||
Time zone : | UTC + 2 | ||
Postal code : | 46100-46160 | ||
Mayor : | Moshe Fadlon | ||
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Herzliya ( Hebrew הרצליה[ hɛrts (ɛ) 'lija ], Arabic هيرتزيليا) is a city in Israel ; as further spellings of her name in Latin letters come Herzliya , Herts (e) li (y) a u. Ä. before. Herzlia is located in the northern agglomeration of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and is one of the wealthiest communities in the country.
The residential district of Herzlia Pituach also belongs to the municipality . A large number of foreign ambassadors, entrepreneurs and other high-ranking personalities live in this quarter. Downtown Tel Aviv can be reached from there by car in around 15 minutes.
location
Herzlia is located about 15 km north of Tel Aviv on the Mediterranean Sea in the Sharon Plain . It belongs to the Gush Dan metropolitan region and is located in the Tel Aviv district of Israel . The city is especially popular with tourists, not only because of the many hotels, but also because of the marina.
history
Herzlia was founded on November 23, 1924 by seven people as Moschawa . This was near the crusader castle Arsuf and is named after Theodor Herzl , the founder of political Zionism .
After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the number of inhabitants grew rapidly and Herzliya took on an urban character. On April 11, 1960, the moshava received the status of a city administration .
In December 2000 the first Herzlia conference took place. Every year, this conference, organized by the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, brings together high-ranking Israeli and international participants from the fields of government, business and the higher education sector. There they discuss important national, regional and global issues.
On June 11, 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber from the al-Aqsa Brigades killed 14-year-old student Hadar Hershkowitz in a restaurant. 15 other people were injured.
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 Herzlia:
Year of the census | 1948 | 1961 | 1972 | 1983 | 1995 | 2008 | 2016 |
Number of inhabitants | 5,287 | 26,934 | 41,356 | 63,155 | 82,759 | 84.405 | 93,116 |
economy
The main industry of the city is tourism. Many start-ups and companies from the high-tech industry have settled in the Herzlia Pituach district. Here is u. a. the headquarters of the NSO Group , an international cybersecurity company .
Culture, upbringing, education
- Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, museum for international and Israeli contemporary art; Architect: Yaakov right
- Herzliya Performing Arts Center
- Hezlia is the seat of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism .
- Israel's largest television and film studio, Herzliya Studios
- Samy Ofer School of Communications with an attached Museum for Communication
Sports
The urban stadium with 8,300 seats is home to the two football clubs Maccabi Herzlia and Hapoel Herzliya .
sons and daughters of the town
- Jigal Amir (* 1970), murderer of Yitzhak Rabin
- Miri Mesika (* 1978), pop singer
- Chen Reiss (* 1979), opera singer
- Yehuda Levi (* 1979), actor, musician and model
- Gilad Hochman (* 1982), composer
- Alona Tal (* 1983), singer and actress
mayor
- 1937–1938 Avraham Raphael Hirsch
- 1938-1943 Shimon Levin
- 1943–1960 Ben Zion Michaelmas
- 1960–1966 Pesah Yifher
- 1966–1967 Natan Rosenthal
- 1969-1983 Yosef Nevo
- 1983–1998 Eli Landau ( Likud )
- 1998–2013 Ja'el German ( Meretz )
- 2013 Yehonatan Yasur
- since 2013 Moshe Fadlon
Town twinning
Herzlia has partnerships with the following cities:
- Hollywood (Florida) , USA
- Jerocham , Israel
- Tayyibe , Israel
- Yangzhou , People's Republic of China
- Marl , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany , since 1981
- San Bernardino (California) , California , USA since 1988
- Toulon , France since 1989
- Alicante , Spain since 1989
- Funchal , Madeira , Portugal since 1991
- Dnipro , Ukraine since 1992
- Columbus (Ohio) , USA since 1994
- Banská Bystrica , Slovakia since 1996
- Bursa , Turkey since 1997
- San Isidro (Buenos Aires) , Argentina since 1997
- Leipzig , Saxony , Germany since 2011
As a sign of the partnership was in Marl the Herzlia-Allee , the southern part of the north-south axis, named after the Israeli city. In Leipzig there is an artistically designed Herzliyaplatz on the edge of the Clara-Zetkin-Park. There is also a Leipzig Square in Herzliya.
photos
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Mordecai Naor : Eretz Israel . Könemann, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-89508-594-4 , p. 128
- ^ Newsletter of the Embassy of the State of Israel of June 11, 2015
- ^ Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
- ↑ Herzliya Performing Arts Center timeout.com. Retrieved June 25, 2019
- ↑ International Institute for Counter-Terrorsm , accessed June 25, 2019
- ↑ [1] accessed on June 25, 2019