Petach Tikva

 

Petach Tikva was established in 1878 by religious Jews who moved from Jerusalem’s secure walls to swamp lands East of what today is Tel Aviv. It was the first modern Jewish agricultural settlement in the Ottoman period and has grown to become one of Israel’s most populous urban centers with 210,000 residents.

Petah Tikva has the second largest industrial sector in Israel after the northern city of Haifa. Numerous high-tech companies and start-ups have moved into the industrial zones of Petah Tikva, which now house the Israeli headquarters for the Oracle Corporation, IBM, Intel, Alcatel-Lucent, ECI Telecom, and GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals.

The Garin in Petach Tikva began in 2011 with a group of five young Israeli Ethiopian adults, studying for their master’s degrees, who moved into the city’s Yosef Tal neighborhood. The neighborhood is made up of the majority of the over 4,000 Ethiopian Israelis living in Petach Tikva. The Garin began meeting and planning the growth and development of the Garin, establishing a group of Ethiopian Israeli high school youth as young leaders to serve as role models and to conduct community outreach and programming.

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