Yavne
Yavne (Hebrew יבנה, Arabic يبنة, DMG Yibna ), Latin: Jamnia, is a city in Israel, about 30 kilometers south of Tel Aviv.
History
Antiquity
Its history goes way back. The historic Yavneh has its roots in Canaanite period (about 3000 BC). During excavations on a hill about 300 meters north of the ancient city about 2000 cult vessels from the 9th and 8th centuries BC have been found that are likely to originate from a temple in the vicinity. Never has one discovers from the Iron Age even close to such a large amount of cult equipment. So far, however, are published only parts of the total of about 125 house models that were found in the pit.
After the Old Testament Report ( 2 Chron 26.6 ) Yavneh was a Philistine city, which was about the middle of the 8th century BC, conquered by Uzziah and incorporated into the kingdom of Judah. In the Hellenistic period was the Hellenized form of the name of the place Jamnia.
After Jerusalem and the Temple in AD 70 had been destroyed, the Sanhedrin (the " High Council " ) occurred around the year 72 AD in Yavneh together (known as the Sanhedrin of Jamnia ). This gives Jawne a special position in the history of Israel. At the same time was a Jewish grammar school under the leadership of Johanan ben Zakkai. After the rebellion of Bar Kochba in 135 AD, the school was disbanded, the Sanhedrin moved first from Yavneh by Usha near the Bay of Haifa, later to Tiberias. Because of the central importance Jawnes for rabbinic Judaism which forms one speaks of this time (about 70 AD to 130 AD ), also called " the Yavneh period".
Yavneh Jam (31 ° 55 ' 50 "N, 34 ° 41' 56 " O31.93061111111134.698833333333 ), about six miles north-west by the Mediterranean Sea at the kibbutz Palm Achim, was the port of the ancient settlement. It is now an excavation site: see Tel Aviv University The Yavneh -Yam Project (English ).
Middle Ages
The Crusaders called the city Ibelin. They built a castle in Ibelin and 1134 the town was the center of an independent dominion in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. The residents here noble family Ibelin presented numerous influential barons of the kingdom. Saladin conquered the castle in 1187 and left them no later than 1191 loops; the place subsequently lost in importance. From the Crusader period a church was preserved.
Modern Times
The present city was founded in 1949, built in the year after the Israeli state was founded on the ruins of the abandoned Arab village Yibna for Jewish immigrants. She had the status of a developing city. From 1974 to 1987 officiated the later Israeli Interior Minister Meir Shitrit as mayor of Yavneh. On March 1, 1998, a twinning charter with Speyer was signed. This is the einhunderste partnership between a German and an Israeli town. In 2001, Yavneh was given the status of a municipality. Today Yavneh has 33,200 inhabitants and is the seat of the Israeli Institute for Nuclear Research and the electric company Orbotech.
Population
The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics are at the census of 22 May 1961 May 19, 1972, June 4, 1983, November 4, 1995 and December 28, 2008, the following population figures for Yavneh to:
Sons and daughters of the town
- Maor Melikson (1984 ) Football Player