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In Hebrew, the meaning of the words: "Petach-Tikva" is "opening of hope". It is called Petach-Tikva because when the first pioneers came here, to settle this place, they feared because everywhere there were swamps, mud and sickness but they had hopes. This is how it all began Petach-Tikva was founded in the year 1878 by
a group of pioneers from Jerusalem. The three men to take the initiative
from Jerusalem, in founding Petach-Tikva, were: Rabbi Yoel-Moshe Salomon,
Rabbi David Gutmann and Yehoshua Stampfer. Thus Petach-Tikva became
the mother of all settlements. Ten years after its establishment, in
1888, Baron Rothschild began to support the settlement by the purchase
of land by helping the farmers of the settlement. Petach Tikva became
the school for thousands of pineer workers, who studied the craft of
farming here before they ventured out to establish tens of settlements
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Some historical places in Petach-Tikva This is a monument for the memory of the Baron Rothschild: |
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The big synagogue-The synagogue
was built in the year 1890, it is made of cemented dunes. There are four
clocks on the facade of the synagogue. In the middle there is clock having
reached the age of 60 years. There are three sundials beside the doors.
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The concrete house-The first concrete
house in Israel was built in the year 1912 and used for the watering company
of Palestine (the official name of the Land of Israel during the British
Mandate period).
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The first Hebrew stamp in Israel-The
first Hebrew stamp in Israel was very colorful and symbolized Petach-Tikva;
plows, green fields and an orange tree. Upward were the words "Petach-Tikva"
in Hebrew.
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The new zoo-On
October, 1996, the new zoo replaced the old zoo of Petach-Tikva. There
is a zoologist museum near the new zoo. There are many kinds of animals
(not carnivore) in the new zoo; mammals, birds and reptiles.
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The masterpiece of the zoo is
the monkeys' cage; the cage contains a path with about 100 monkeys. The
monkeys surround the visitors from all over.
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In the big lake of the zoo you
can find about 60 kinds of water birds, some of them are rare in Israel.
You can watch the normal behavior of the birds-eating, courting, laying,
incubation and nesting.
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In the petting corner, you can touch the hares, the young goats, the lamb and the sheep. Taken from: http://www.petah-tikva.muni.il/mainpage.asp?Lang=1&eng=true |
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About
Our School - Ein Ganim Israel
We study in
Ein-Ganim school. It is a very special and a big school, with an interesting
history. This school is open almost 40 years! We came to this school two
years ago, and we like it very much. We study in a gifted class. There
are only seven girls in our class that study together with 18 boys. We
try to work together and it works better from day to day. We came to this
school by our decision and we are having fun in it. We come from all over
our city, Petach-Tikva and there are even a few kids that come from the
neighboring city: Rosh-Ha'ain. We like to learn together and we go on
trips sometimes, sometimes we have parties and many more things. These
activities help to keep us together. We like to laugh with each other
and we can have really good fun. There is a building in school with the
classes, a little building that contains the science and the music room,
and a medium building with the first and second grades. The school has
a choir (I am in it) that performs to the kids of school at ceremonies
and a dancer's group that performs at school, too. We practice singing
and dancing on Wednesdays. There is a smaller choir with younger kids
this year too, that practices on Thursdays. We learn English, Art, Math,
Sports, Music, Science, Dancing, History and more. My favorite lesson
is art. There is a big yard and our class likes to play catch during the
big recess. We have many activities at school and sometimes we earn money
that we donate to people that need it like soldiers and to hospitals.
We love our school and we are happy we can help people! |
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'This is one of the three pilgrimage
festivals(Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot), when Jews came to Jerusalem,
to the Holy Temple, to offer sacrifices. In the agricultural society of
that time, most of the festivals were associated with the growing seasons:
Shavuot - the Festival of the First Fruits, was designated as the time
of the wheat harvest.
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Farmers would bring offerings to the Temple from
the first produce to ripen in their fields - choice fruits from the
seven species. The First Fruits were brought to the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
When the farmers arrived in Jerusalem, the city's nobles and the priests
were waiting at the entrance to the city, and when they reached the
Temple, priests dressed in their holiday finery would accept the gifts
from them. All of this took place during the time when the Temple stood
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On Shavuot we eat different kinds of cheese.
We have 3 days of no studies. We do a ceremony to the holiday at school,
sing songs of the festival (There are a lot of songs…) and bless
our friends the 'happy holiday' blessing. Shavuot is also called 'Hag Matan Tora' that
means 'the holiday of giving the Torah' in Hebrew. |
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Thank you to Marsha
Goren and students from Ein Ganim for this interesting information.
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