Rehovot

Rehovot (Hebrew רחובות, modern Hebrew pronunciation: [ rexovot ], Arabic رحوفوت, other spellings: Rehovot, Rehovot ) is a city in Israel. It is located about 20 kilometers south of Tel Aviv, and has 106,200 inhabitants ( 2007). The name means " wide open spaces " and is derived from the Bible, from (Gen 26.22 LUT ), where he referred to the wide space beside a dug wells of Isaac. Current mayor is Rahamim Malul.

Location

The city is situated on the edge of the Judean Shephelah hills in Central District of Israel. Neighboring towns are Giv'at burner and Qiryath Eqron in the south, and Sitriah and Ramleh in the east, Nes Ziona and Netzer Sereni in the north and in the west Ge'aliah.

History

Rehovot was on March 6, 1890, incorporated in a sparsely populated area of Arabs, of Polish and Russian Jews. 1908 immigrants settled from Yemen. The first settlers put to vineyards, fruit trees, almond trees and citrus groves.

1932 an agricultural research institute of Tel Aviv was moved to Rehovot, which later location of the agronomy faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1934, Chaim Weizmann, the Daniel Sieff Research Institute, this was renamed in 1949 in the Weizmann Institute of Science ( Weizmann Scientific Park, Nes Ziona, Rehovot ).

On 29 February 1948, the paramilitary underground organization Lehi perpetrated an attack on a vehicle permanently running from Cairo to Haifa train shortly after it left Rehovot. Here 29 British soldiers were killed, injured another 35 soldiers and 100 civilians.

Most of the land of the Palestinian village Sarnuka ( زرنوقة ) is now one of Rehovot. 1948 2761 all Palestinian residents were expelled and destroyed most of their homes. Among other things, the family of Fathi Schakaki from Sarnuka comes.

Economy

Rehovot is the Israeli center of the orange cultivation and home to many companies, bottling fruit juices or processed into concentrates.

In the north Rechovots located with the Tamar Science Park is a 100 -acre industrial park, on the main companies have settled out of the high technology sector.

Twinning

Cities partnerships with

  • France Grenoble, F
  • United States Philadelphia, United States
  • United States Rochester, USA
  • Germany Heidelberg, D, since 1983

Personalities

Freeman

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Yizhar Smilansky (1916-2006), writer
  • Arnon Milchan ( born 1944 ), film producer
  • Zebulun Orlew (* 1945), politician
  • Gali Atari ( born 1953 ), singer and actress
  • Nili Abramski (* 1970), long-distance runner
  • Eyal Golan ( b. 1971 ), singer
  • Eres Wood ( born 1977 ), composer
  • Tzipi Hotovely (* 1978), politician and columnist
  • Uri Smilansky ( b. 1979 ), musician and music historian
  • Omri Ziegele ( born 1959 ), musician
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