Be'er Ya'akov
Be'er Ya'akov (Ebreu: בְּאֵר יַעֲקֹב, lit. Jacob's Well) is a toun wi local cooncil status in the central Israel, near Ness Ziona an Rishon LeZion.
Be'er Ya'akov haes an aurie o 8,580 dunams (~8.6 km²).[1] In December 2006, it haed a population o 9,400.[2] Be'er Ya'akov wis foondit in 1907 bi Jewish immigrants frae Dagestan. In 1947, it haed a population o 400.[3] It achieved local cooncil status in 1949.
Be'er Ya'akov wis named efter Ya'akov Yitzhaki, a rabbi an Jewish pioneer.[4]
Durin the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, an till the Israeli capture o Ramla in Julie o 1948, Be'er Ya'akov wis in the frontline. The population at that time wis evacuatit an a new settlement, Be'er Shalom, wis established nearbi bi members o Kibbutz Buchenwald, the first pioneer trainin group formed in post-Warld War II Germany.[3][5]
Twa hospitals are locatit in Be'er Ya'akov: Asaf HaRofe Hospital (near Tzrifin), an Shmuel HaRofe Geriatric Hospital.
[edit] Sports
- Maccabi Be'er Ya'akov is the local fitbaa club.
- Maccabi Be'er Ya'akov B.C., the local basketbaw club, plays in Liga Leumit, the seicont tier.
[edit] Transportion
Be'er Ya'akov is served bi the Be'er Ya'akov Railway Station, for trains on the Binyamina-Ashkelon line.
[edit] References
- ↑ Local Authorities in Israel 2005, Publication #1295 - Municipality Profiles - Be'er Ya'akov (Hebrew). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved on 9 Apryle 2008. .
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedcbs_populations - ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jewish National Fund (1949). Jewish Villages in Israel. Jerusalem: Hamadpis Liphshitz Press, 14.
- ↑ HaReuveni, Immanuel (1999). Lexicon of the Land of Israel (in Hebrew). Miskal - Yedioth Ahronoth Books and Chemed Books.
- ↑ Kibbutz Buchenwald, Judy Baumel
