Giv'atayim

Infobox Israel municipality
name=Giv'atayim


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caption=Public Garden
hebname=Hebrew|גִּבְעָתַיִם
meaning=Two hills
founded=1922
type=city
typefrom=1959
stdHeb=Givunicode|ʻatáyim
altOffSp=Givatayim
altUnoSp=Givataim
district=ta
population=55,000
popyear=2004
area_dunam=3211

mayor=Reuven Ben-Shahar

Giv'atayim ( _he. גִּבְעָתַיִם, lit. "two hills") is a city in Israel east of Tel Aviv. It is part of the metropolitan area known as Gush Dan. Givatayim was established in 1922 by pioneers of the Second Aliyah. It has a population of 55,000. [cite web
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History

Archaeological ruins date settlement on the site of what is now Giv'atayim back to the Calcolithic period. The modern town was founded on April 2, 1922 by a group of 22 Second Aliyah pioneers led by David Schneiderman. The group purchased 300 dunams (75 acres) of land on the outskirts of Tel Aviv that became the Borochov neighborhood, the first workers' neighborhood in the country. It was named for Ber Borochov, founder of the Poalei Zion workers' party. Later, another 70 families joined the group, receiving smaller plots. The land was purchased with their private savings, but was voluntarily transferred to the Jewish National Fund, which organized Jewish settlement at the time, in keeping with the pioneers' socialist beliefs.cite news
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first=Shuki
title=Land day
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accessdate=2008-07-22
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url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/998803.html]

Over time, more neighborhoods developed: Sheinkin (1936), Givat Rambam (1933), Kiryat Yosef (1934) and Arlozorov (1936). All these neighborhoods were merged to form a local council in August 1942. Giv'atayim was declared a city in 1959.

Geography

Giv'atayim is located east of Tel Aviv, and is bordered on the north and east by date=July 2008

Mayors

#Shimon Ben-Zvi (1941 - 1965)
#Kuba Kraizman (1965 - 1978)
#Yizhak Yaron (1978 - 1993)
#Efi (Ephraim) Schtenzler (1993 - 2006)
#Iris Avram, replace the previously mayor because early resignation (November 9, 2006 - January 16, 2007)
#Reuven Ben-Shahar (2007 - )

Reuven Ben-Shahar (the current mayor) was the first candidate from Kadima that won in city election and the first mayor in Giv'atayim that wasn't from the Israeli Labor Party

ister cities

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ee also

*Al-Khayriyya

References

External links

* [http://www.givatayim.muni.il Official website]