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Nahalat Yitzhak is a neighborhood of
In 1931 the neighborhood had 36 houses and a population of 134 people. It was established on the border of the German Templer colony of Sarona, adjacent to the Borochov neighborhood, the first neighborhood of
Nahalat Yitzhak is a neighborhood of Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( or , ; ), sometimes rendered as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, and usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel. Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a popula ...
, Israel.
Name
Nahalat Yitzhak literally means "Yitzhak's Estate" inHebrew
Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...
. The neighborhood is named after Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor
Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor or Isaac Elhanan Spector (; 1817 – March 6, 1896) was a Russian rabbi, ''posek'' and Talmudist of the 19th century.
Early life
Spektor was born in Ros', Belarus (Yiddish: Rosh), then part of the Grodno Governorate ...
, Chief Rabbi of Kovno
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, who wrote a book called Nachal Yitzchok (River of Yitzchok).
History
Nahalat Yitzhak was founded in 1925, east of theAyalon River
The Ayalon River (, ''Nahal Ayalon''; Nahr el-Barideh), or Wadi Musrara (وادي المصرارة) in Arabic, is a perennial stream in Israel, originating in the Judean Hills and discharging into the Yarkon River in the area of Tel Aviv.
The to ...
, by a group of Jews who came from Kaunas
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(Kovno), Lithuania
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.
In 1931 the neighborhood had 36 houses and a population of 134 people. It was established on the border of the German Templer colony of Sarona, adjacent to the Borochov neighborhood, the first neighborhood of Giv'atayim
Givatayim () is a city in Israel east of Tel Aviv. It is part of the Gush Dan metropolitan area. Givatayim was established in 1922 by pioneers of the Second Aliyah. In it had a population of .
The name of the city comes from the "two hills" on w ...
. At the beginning it was a farming neighborhood of homesteads. Later a number of industrial plants were built on the neighborhood's outskirts, among them "Tara Dairies", "Yitzhar" factory (the area where Tel Aviv Towers
The Tel Aviv Towers are a complex of four skyscrapers in the city of Tel Aviv, Israel. All four buildings in the complex are complete. Towers 1 and 2 are each 107.75 meters in height, have 34 floors, and were built between 1998 and 2000. Each has ...
stand), and a number of flour mills.
Nahalat Yitzhak became part of Tel Aviv on 10 January 1946. In 1958 the interior minister annexed the neighborhood to Giv'atayim, but the Israel Supreme Court reversed the decision after it became clear that the position of opponents of the annexation were not heard, and the neighborhood remained in the jurisdiction of Tel Aviv.
See also
* Nahala (disambiguation page), Hebrew word for heritage or estate widely used for toponyms in Israel *Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery
Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery () is a Jews, Jewish municipal burial ground in the Tel Aviv District city of Givatayim, Israel, east of the Nahalat Yitzhak neighborhood of Tel Aviv. Founded in 1932, it includes more than 30,000 graves, including those ...
References
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