“Petah Tikva” (Hebrew for “Opening of Hope”)

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Petah Tikva is a major city in Israel, often considered the country’s first modern Jewish agricultural settlement and now an important industrial and residential center in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf city
locality in Israel
climate Mediterranean climate
country Israel
distanceFrom approximately 10 km east of Tel Aviv
foundedAs Jewish agricultural settlement
founders religious Jewish pioneers from Jerusalem
gainedCityStatus 1937
governingBody Petah Tikva Municipality
hasArabicName بيتاح تكفا
hasEconomicSector high-tech industry
manufacturing
services
hasEnglishName Petah Tikva
hasHebrewName פתח תקווה
hasLightRail Tel Aviv Light Rail Red Line
linked to: Tel Aviv Light Rail
hasMajorHospital Beilinson Hospital
Rabin Medical Center
Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel
hasMunicipalStatus city
hasPrimaryReligion Judaism
hasPublicTransport Israel Railways stations nearby
hasRoadConnection Highway 4
Highway 5
hasSignificantPopulationGroup Jewish Israelis
hasSisterCity Debrecen
Freiburg im Breisgau
Kiryat Motzkin
Mönchengladbach
Nantes
Nizhny Novgorod
Xi’an
linked to: Xi'an
hasSportsClub Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C.
Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C.
headOfGovernment Mayor of Petah Tikva
inception 1878
isConsidered first modern Jewish agricultural settlement in the Land of Israel
isIndustrialCenter true
isResidentialCenter true
literalMeaning Opening of Hope
locatedIn Central District, Israel
locatedInRegion Sharon plain
locatedInTimeZone Israel Standard Time
locatedNear Tel Aviv
namedAfter Valley of Achor (biblical reference of hope)
linked to: Valley of Achor
nicknamed Mother of the Settlements
partOf Tel Aviv metropolitan area
utcOffset +02:00
utcOffsetDST +03:00

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Petah Tikva namedAfter “Petah Tikva” (Hebrew for “Opening of Hope”)
Mother of the Moshavot historicalRoleOfReferent Petah Tikva was among the first modern Jewish agricultural colonies in the Land of Israel
linked to: “Petah Tikva” (Hebrew for “Opening of Hope”)