Kiryat Yam
Kiryat Yam (Ebreu: קִרְיַת יָם, lit. Sea Toun) is a toun in the Haifa Bay destrict o Israel, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north o Haifa. Ane o a group o Haifa suburbs kent as the Krayot, it is locatit on the Mediterranean coast, atween Kiryat Haim an the Tzur Shalom industrial aurie, east o Kiryat Motzkin.
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[edit] History
A lairge tract o land on the Haifa Bay wis purchased frae the Sursock family o Beirut bi the American Zion Commonwealth in 1925.[1] In 1928, the Bayside Land Corporation, a joint venture o the Palestine Economic Corporation an the Jewish National Fund, acquired 2,400 dunams o residential land in a deal relatit tae the biggin o the IPC ile pipeline.[2] Development of a residential area began in 1939,[3] and the first houses were completed in 1940.[2]
[edit] Demographics
Kiryat Yam haes a population o 45,000 residents.[4] The northren aurie o the toun is hame tae mony immigrants frae the umwhile Soviet Union, North Africae an Ethiopie in which the municipality an its mayor Shmuel Sisso wirked tea build dozens o centers an hames tae help the immigrants settle. The ceety is ranked medium on the socio-economic scale.[5]
[edit] Schuils
Kiryat Yam haes 15 preschuils, aicht elementary schuils an 3 heich schuils (Rabin,Rodman & Levinson ) wi a student population o 10,000.
[edit] Israeli-Arab conflict
Durin the 2006 Lebanon War, Kiryat Yam wis hit bi Hezbollah rockets an suffered casualties an property damage.[6]
In Februar 2008, a Google Earth uiser addit an erroneous note that Kiryat Yam haed been built on the ruins o Arab Ghawarina, an abandoned Arab veelage. The toun filed a complaint wi the polis against Google for libel.[7][8]
[edit] Urban development
Urban development plans aimed at upgradin the auld Gimmel neighborhuid wur blocked bi Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, whose main weapons development plant borders Kiryat Yam.[9] In 2009, the Haifa Destrict plannin committee appruivit heich-rise construction for the neighborhuid, owerrulin Rafael's objections.[10]
[edit] Neighbourhuids
- Kiryat Yam (Dalet) - includin Almogim
- Kiryat Yam (Gimmel) - built in the 1950s
- Kiryat Yam (Bet)
- Kiryat Yam (Alef)
- Savyoney Yam
- Psagot Yam & Bne Beitkha
[edit] Internaitional relations
[edit] Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Kiryat Yam is twinned wi:
[edit] References
- ↑ Joseph B. Glass, From New Zion to Old Zion: American Jewish Immigration and Settlement in Palestine, 1917-1939(America-Holy Land Monographs, 2002), p192.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Glass, p236
- ↑ Palestine Post, May 12, 1939
- ↑ http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/956431.html)
- ↑ Local councils and municipalities, by socio-economic index, ranking and cluster membership
- ↑ Israeli town sues Google over claim it was built on Arab village Haaretz, 11 February 2008
- ↑ Glickman, Eitan, Shlomi, Ro'i. "Kiryat Yam is Searching Google", Yedioth Ahronoth, 2008-02-11.
- ↑ In Kiryat Yam, urban renewal program faces off with Rafael armaments
- ↑ Kiryat Yam renewal gets go-ahead
- ↑ Makó külkapcsolatai – előtérben a kultúra és a gazdaságélénkítés |Makó. Mako.hu (2005-07-11). Retrieved on 5 Mey 2009. . Template:Dead link
