Petah Tikva

Petah Tikva
Petah Tikva
Ebreu transcription(s)
- Ebreu	פֶּתַח תִּקְוָה?
	; Emblem of Petah Tikva
	; Emblem of Petah Tikva
	; Petah Tikva
	Coordinates: 32°05′19.78″N 34°53′10.8″E / 32.0888278°N 34.886333°E
Destrict	Center
Foondit	1878
	Govrenment
- Heid o Municipality	Yitzhak Ohayon
	Aurie
- Tot	35,868 dunams (35.9 km2 / 13.8 sq mi)
	Indwallers (2009)
- Tot	209,600
Name meaning	Openin o hope

Petah Tikva (Ebreu: פֶּתַח תִּקְוָה‎‎, "Openin o Hope") kent as Em HaMoshavot ("Mither o the Moshavot"), is a ceety in the Center District o Israel, 10.6 km, or 6.6 miles east o Tel Aviv. Petah Tikva's jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams (~35.9 km² or 15 sq mi). The population density is approximately 5,800 inhabitants per square kilometre. Accordin tae the Central Bureau o Statistics, at the end o 2009, the ceety's population stood at 209,600.^[1]

Table o contents

1 Etymology
2 Internaitional relations
- 2.1 Twin touns — Sister ceeties
3 References

Etymology [edit]

The name o Petah Tikva wis chosen bi its foonders in 1878 frae the prophecy o Hosea (2:17), "An A will give her vineyards frae thence, an the Valley o Achor for an openin o hope: an she shall sang there, as in the days o her youth, an as in the day when she came up oot o the land o Egyp."

Haim-Ozer Street, the ceety's main street

Petah Tikva's emblem appears on a postage stamp designed bi Yitzhak Goldenhirsch, a foondin member o Petah Tikva. The plow seembolizes Petah Tikva's oreegins as an agricultural settlement, the field seembolizes the dryin o the Yarkon River swamps an cultivation o the land, an the orange tree seembolizes Petah Tikva's citrus industry, stairtin wi the first tree plantit bi Rabbi Arye Leib Frumkin.