Kirjat Bialik

Kirjat Bialik
Basic data
hebrew :	קריית ביאליק
arabic :	كريات بياليك
State :	Israel
District :	Haifa
Founded :	1934
Coordinates :	32 ° 50 ' N , 35 ° 4' E Coordinates: 32 ° 49 '59 " N , 35 ° 3' 59" E
Height :	10 m
Area :	8.176 km²
Residents :	39,927 (as of 2018)
Population density :	4,883 inhabitants per km²
- Metropolitan area :	1,050,000 (2017)
Community code :	9500
Time zone :	UTC + 2
Postal code :	27001-27513
Community type:	City (Kirja)
Mayor :	Eli Dukorsky
Website :	www.qbialik.org.il
	Kirjat Bialik
	Kirjat Bialik

Kirjat Bialik ( Hebrew קריית ביאליק, Arabic كريات بياليك) is a city in Israel, northeast of Haifa . Their total area is 8.2 square kilometers. In 2018 the city had 39,927 inhabitants. Kirjat Bialik received city status in 1976. Together with other cities, it forms the HaKrajot agglomeration . Krajot is the plural of Kirja ( Hebrew קִרְיָה Qirjah "city, suburb") and the name component Bialik goes back to the Israeli national poet Chaim Nachman Bialik .

history

Kirjat Bialik is located in the Zevulun Valley in Haifa Bay. The first Jews to settle there in 1924 were the immigrants Ephraim and Sabina Katz from Romania after they acquired the land. Their settlement was destroyed by Arabs during the Palestinian massacres in the week from 23 to 29 August 1929 (Arabic: ثورة البراق, Thawrat al-Buraq " Buraq riots"). That week also happened the riot in Safed and the Hebron massacre . This week 133 Jewish civilians, including children, were murdered mostly in their homes by Palestinian Arabs and 198–241 others were seriously injured, many women were sexually abused . A total of 28 Jewish communities in the territory of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine were attacked and 17 had to be evacuated. In the violent Arab riots, 116 Arabs were killed by British police forces, who pacified the unrest. The only house in the Jewish settlement that survived the unrest, Beit Katz ("Haus Katz"), was bequeathed to Kiryat Bialik in 1959 and designated for public use.

Today's Kirjat Bialik was founded on July 18, 1934 by a group of immigrants from Germany . Initially, the residential area was referred to as the "residential area of immigrants from Germany". In the same year the national poet Chaim Nachman Bialik died and the settlement Kirjat Bialik was named after his name. It was the first settlement in Palestine by German immigrants who came from the liberal professions (doctors, engineers, lawyers). The development progressed steadily, and in 1976 Kirjat Bialik received city rights.

From 1940 to 1956, the German-Israeli educator Hugo Rosenthal , who took the name Josef Jashuvi when he immigrated in 1939, was the director of the Ahavah children's and youth home founded by Beate Berger in 1922 in Berlin . The educator Herbert Hecht , who emigrated from Germany, also worked here for a time .

In recent years, Kirjat Bialik has accepted more than 7,000 immigrants from the areas of the former Soviet Union and from Ethiopia .

Infrastructure

The education system in Kirjat Bialik is one of the most extensive in the state and can boast impressive successes. Day classes, six elementary schools, two orientation levels, a grammar school, a technical college and an adult college for university entrance are maintained in the city. The largest school in Israel is located in Kirjat Bialik.

The cultural system for adults is concentrated in four cultural clubs, in which wide-ranging and diverse socio-cultural activities are offered.

In the north of Kirjat Bialik there is a nature reserve with remains from the Crusader period. The nature reserve is a magnet for nature lovers from all over the region. The city government built a memorial in the area for the city's sons who died in the wars of Israel.