Herzlia

Herzlia
Basic data
hebrew :	הרצליה
arabic :	هيرتزيليا
State :	Israel
District :	Tel Aviv
Founded :	1924
Coordinates :	32 ° 9 ' N , 34 ° 51' E Coordinates: 32 ° 9 '20 " N , 34 ° 50' 32" 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
Website :	www.herzliya.muni.il
	Herzlia
	Herzlia

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

The town hall of Herzlia was built as a schoolhouse in 1932 and has served its current purpose since 1947.
Marina boardwalk
Commercial street
The Herzlias concert hall
Rocky bay overlooking the Mediterranean
Aerial view of the marina
Shopping street in the center of the city