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Building wine barrels, 1890s Ohel Ya'akov Synagogue. Zikhron Ya'akov (Hebrew: זִכְרוֹן יַעֲקֹב, lit. "Jacob's Memorial"; often shortened to just Zikhron) is a Moshava (town) in Israel, 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Haifa, and part of the Haifa District.
Its name, Ohel Yaakov, means "Tent of Jacob" and alludes to the biblical Jacob, who "dwelled in tents" according to Genesis 25:27. The synagogue, which has a large main section for men and a second-floor, wraparound women's section, has a Holy ark made of white marble and marble interior walls.
The Egged Bus Company is the largest bus company in Israel, and one of the largest in the world.It operates over 400 bus lines, including internal city lines in many of Israel's cities (in others, the Dan Bus Company, Kavim, Superbus, etc. operate the internal lines), as well as most of Israel's inter-city lines.
Kibbutz Beth-El is a Christian Zionist community in Zichron Ya'akov, Israel. In 2003, its population was 800. [1] [2] Kibbutz Beth-El has its community roots in Stuttgart, Germany. Emma Berger, a Christian who became devout following her recovery from a serious illness, brought a group of followers to Israel in 1963 and purchased land in ...
The station remained in service until the late 1990s, when the high-speed Haifa–Binyamina–Tel Aviv service was separated from the newly created Binyamina–Tel Aviv suburban service: Zikhron Yaakov station was deemed too minor for the high-speed service, and too remote for the suburban service (which terminates at Binyamina station, about ...
The others are, in order of their founding: Zichron Ya'akov (1882), Mazkeret Batya (1883), Bat Shlomo (1889), Meir Shfeya (1891), Givat Ada (1903), Binyamina (1922), Ashdot Ya'akov (1924), Shadmot Dvora (1924) and Sde Eliezer (1950). The reason Pardes Hanna was named for Hanna Primrose née de Rothschild in particular is uncertain but she ...
The elections of 2018 were the first municipal elections in Israel where a paid day off work was enacted for the first round of voting, in hopes of increasing voter turnout. [7] Total turnout in the first round of voting was 59.5%. [8] By comparison, the turnout in 2013 stood at 51.8%. [9]
The exiles were driven to Jerusalem, to cities in central Palestine (such as Petah Tikva and Kfar Saba) and to the north of Palestine, where they were scattered among the different Jewish settlements in the Lower Galilee, in Zichron Yaacov, Tiberias, and Safed. Up to 16,000 deportees were evacuated from Tel Aviv, which was left with almost no ...