Rishon LeZion
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| hebrew : | ראשון ـ לציון | ||
| arabic : | ريشون لتصيون | ||
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| District : | Central | ||
| Founded : | 1882 | ||
| Coordinates : | 31 ° 58 ' N , 34 ° 48' E | ||
| Height : | 40 m | ||
| Area : | 58.704 km² | ||
| Residents : | 251,719 (as of 2018) | ||
| Population density : | 4,288 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Community code : | 8300 | ||
| Time zone : | UTC + 2 | ||
| Postal code : | 75001 - 76950 | ||
| Community type: | city | ||
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Rishon LeZion ( Hebrew רִאשׁוֹן ـ לְצִיּוֹן Rischōn lə-Zijjōn , German 'First / First to / for Zion' , IPA : colloquial. [ ˈƦiʃɔn lɛˈtsiɔn ], correct [ ʀiˈʃɔn lɛtsiˈyɔn ], Arabic ريشون لتصيون, DMG Rīšūn Latṣiyūn ; also occurring in different transcriptions, e.g. B. Rishon le-Zion and now more often Rishon le-Tsiyon ) is a large city in Israel in the southern part of the greater Tel Aviv-Jaffa area , around ten kilometers south of Tel Aviv in the so-called Gush Dan . With 251,719 inhabitants (2018) it is the fourth largest city in Israel after Jerusalem , Tel Aviv and Haifa .
history
Rishon LeZion was founded by Russian immigrants as a moshava in 1882 , making it one of the first modern Jewish agricultural settlements in what is now Israel. It was named after the Bible: (God speaks): "I was the first to say to Zion ..." (Isaiah 41:27) Then there is talk of a good news that the early immigrants referred to themselves.
The first few years were difficult before a well could be dug. That is why the biblical words can be read in the flag: "We have found water." (Genesis 26:32)
An important sector of agriculture was viticulture very early : In 1887 a winery was founded with the support of Baron Edmond de Rothschild ; from this emerged Israel's largest wine producer, Carmel , which still has its formal headquarters in Rishon LeZion. During the time of the British Mandate , Palestine Breweries was the first in Palestine to produce Nesher beer .
In 1948 the city had only 10,000 inhabitants. After the establishment of the State of Israel, Rishon LeZion developed very quickly. Immigrants from the former Soviet Union and today's Russia , Romanian, German, Yemeni, Moroccan and Iranian residents as well as their descendants shape the city.
The most important branches of the economy are in industry (pharmaceuticals, electrical engineering).
Culture
Rishon LeZion has been the seat of the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion since it was founded in 1988 . It has a municipal library headquartered in Kotar Rishon and eleven branches.
A wine festival is celebrated on Sukkot for a week each year .
In honor of the Jewish Nobel Prize winners , a promenade ( Tayelet Hatnei Pras Nobel ) with memorials to the 850 laureates was built in Rishon LeZion (as of 2007).
On October 30, 2017, Paul-Grüninger-Strasse was inaugurated in the presence of the Swiss Federal Councilor Johann Schneider-Ammann in honor of the former St. Gallen police captain and refugee helper Paul Grüninger .
mayor
- 1950 - 1951 Elyakum Ostaschinski
- 1951 - 1951 Aryeh Scheftel
- 1952 - 1955 Moshe Gavin
- 1955-1955 Gershon Man Mankov
- 1955 - 1960 Hana Levin
- 1960 - 1962 Aryeh Scheftel
- 1962-1965 Noam Laoner
- 1965-1969 Aryeh Sheftel
- 1969 - 1983 Hananya Gibstein
- 1983 - 2008 Meir Nitzan
- 2008 - 2018 Dov Tzur
- 2018 - Raz Kinstlich
Sports
The most famous sports club in the city is Maccabi Rishon LeZion , plus the four-time Israeli ice hockey champion Rishon Devils .
Town twinning
Rishon LeZion lists eight twin cities as well as two districts:
| city | country | since |
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| Brașov |
 Romania
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1996 |
| Debrecen |
 Hungary
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1996 |
| Heerenveen |
 Netherlands
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1993 |
| Lublin |
 Poland
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1992 |
| Lviv |
 Ukraine
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1993 |
| Muenster |
 Germany
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1981 |
| Nîmes |
 France
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1986 |
| Teramo |
 Italy
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1988 |
| Tianjin |
 People's Republic of China
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1994 |
Counties
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Essex County , New Jersey , USA , since 1999 -
Prince George's County , Maryland , USA , since 1990
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Kharkiv , Ukraine
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Gonder , Ethiopia
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Kirjat Schmona , Israel
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Prešov , Slovakia , since 2008 -
Saint Petersburg , Russia
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Vitebsk , Belarus
people
sons and daughters of the town
- Yaacov Agam (born 1928), artist
- Tomer Aharonovich (* 1999), ice hockey player
- Sohar Argov (1955-1987), singer
- Ruchama Avraham Balila (* 1964), politician
- Tal Ben Haim (* 1982), football player
- Roni Duani (* 1986), pop singer
- Mei Feingold (* 1982), singer and participant in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014
- Shai Gabso (* 1984) singer
- Yaacov Hodorov (1927-2006) football goalkeeper
- Nitzan Horowitz (* 1964), politician
- Amir Ohana (* 1976), politician and lawyer
- Ophir Pines-Paz (* 1961) politician
- Liran Cohen (born 1983), football player
- Eran Zahavi (* 1987), football player
Other famous residents
- David Bitan (1962 in Morocco ), politician
- Shoshana Damari (* 1923 in Yemen , † 2006 in Jerusalem ) singer
- Boris Gelfand (* 1968 in Minsk , USSR ), chess master
- Zwi Schulmann (* 1915 in Łódź , Congress Poland , Russian Empire , † 1986 in Rishon LeZion), concentration camp survivor, councilor
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 .
- ^ Israel postal code . Retrieved July 5, 2016.
- ↑ Shmuel Bolozky: Remarks on Rhythmic Stress in Modern Hebrew. In: Journal of Linguistics 18.2 (September 1982), pp. 275-289, here p. 286.
- ↑ אוכלוסייה ביישובים 2018 (population of the settlements 2018). (XLSX; 0.13 MB) Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , August 25, 2019, accessed May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Information on the website of the German twin city Münster ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 2, 2011
- ↑ Information on the orchestra's website ( memento of the original from January 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (English), accessed September 2, 2011
- ↑ Official site of the city ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (English), accessed September 2, 2011
- ^ Federal Council inaugurates an article on Paul-Grüninger-Strasse in Israel on tagblatt.ch from October 30, 2017
- ↑ Rishon Lezion Sister Cities . Retrieved September 22, 2014.
- ↑ Міста-партнери . Archived from the original on January 11, 2016. 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. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
