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]] Holon ( ) is a city
City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
 in Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
, on the central coastal strip south of Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
. Holon is part of the metropolitan area known as Gush Dan
Gush Dan

Gush Dan is a metropolitan area including areas from both the Tel Aviv District and the Center District Districts of Israel. It is located along the Israeli coastal plain....
 in the Tel Aviv District
Tel Aviv District

The Tel Aviv District is one of Districts of Israel of Israel with a population of 1.2 million residents. It is 99.0% Jewish and 1.0% Arab . The district's capital is Tel Aviv and the metropolitan area created by the Tel Aviv district and its neighboring cities is named Gush Dan....
. In 2007, it had a population of 168,800. Holon has the second largest industrial zone in Israel after Haifa
Haifa

Haifa is the largest city in North District Israel, and the List of Israeli cities in the country, with a population of over 264,900. Haifa has a mixed population of Jews and Arabs....
. The chief rabbi of the city is Rabbi Avraham Yosef, son of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
Ovadia Yosef

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is a Sephardi Jews Haredi Judaism rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and recognized halakha authority. He is the former Sephardi Jews Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the current spiritual leader of the Shas political party in the Israeli Knesset....
.

name of the city comes from the Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 word hol, meaning "sand
Sand

Sand is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles.As the term is used by geologists, sand particles range in diameter from 0.0625 to 2 millimeters....
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Holon ( ) is a city
City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
 in Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
, on the central coastal strip south of Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
. Holon is part of the metropolitan area known as Gush Dan
Gush Dan

Gush Dan is a metropolitan area including areas from both the Tel Aviv District and the Center District Districts of Israel. It is located along the Israeli coastal plain....
 in the Tel Aviv District
Tel Aviv District

The Tel Aviv District is one of Districts of Israel of Israel with a population of 1.2 million residents. It is 99.0% Jewish and 1.0% Arab . The district's capital is Tel Aviv and the metropolitan area created by the Tel Aviv district and its neighboring cities is named Gush Dan....
. In 2007, it had a population of 168,800. Holon has the second largest industrial zone in Israel after Haifa
Haifa

Haifa is the largest city in North District Israel, and the List of Israeli cities in the country, with a population of over 264,900. Haifa has a mixed population of Jews and Arabs....
. The chief rabbi of the city is Rabbi Avraham Yosef, son of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
Ovadia Yosef

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is a Sephardi Jews Haredi Judaism rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and recognized halakha authority. He is the former Sephardi Jews Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the current spiritual leader of the Shas political party in the Israeli Knesset....
.

Etymology

The name of the city comes from the Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 word hol, meaning "sand
Sand

Sand is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles.As the term is used by geologists, sand particles range in diameter from 0.0625 to 2 millimeters....
". The name Holon also appears in the Bible
Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
: "And Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs" (Book of Joshua
Book of Joshua

The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in both the Hebrew Tanakh and the Old Testament of the Christianity Bible. This book stands as the first in the Former Prophets covering the history of Kingdom of Israel from the possession of the Promised Land to the Babylonian Captivity....
, 21:15).

History

Holon was founded on sand dunes six kilometers from Tel Aviv in 1935. The Lódzia textile factory was established there by Jewish immigrants from Lódz
Lódz

L?dz is the third-largest city in Poland. Located in the central part of the country, it had a population of 753,192 in 2007. It is the capital of L?dz Voivodeship, and is approximately south-west of Warsaw....
, Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
, along with many other industrial enterprises.

Culture

Holon used to host the annual Storytellers Festival, now held in Giv'atayim
Giv'atayim

File:Location_givatayim.pngGiv'atayim is a city in Israel east of Tel Aviv. It is part of the metropolitan area known as Gush Dan. Givatayim was established in 1922 by pioneers of the Second Aliyah....
. It also hosts the annual Yemay Zemer song festival and a spring festival devoted to women. Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim is a renowned piano and conducting. He lives in Berlin and holds citizenship in Argentina, Israel, Spain, and the Palestinian Authority....
 organizes an annual music summer camp in the city.

Since the election of Moti Sasson as the mayor of Holon in 1993, many cultural projects have been inaugurated. Billing itself as a "children's city," Holon is home to the Holon Children's Museum and the Mediatheque youth theater.

Holon also plays host each year to a street carnival in celebration of the Jewish holiday of Purim
Purim

Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people of the ancient Persian Empire from Haman 's plot to annihilate them, as recorded in the Hebrew Bible Book of Esther ....
, the Adloyada (???????). Thousands of children dress up in costumes and the streets close down for a parade featuring colorful floats.

The city has many parks and lush greenery. The park on the corner of Rehovot HaHistadrut and Eilat is famed for the backgammon
Backgammon

Backgammon is a board game for two players in which the playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice. A player wins by removing all of his pieces from the board....
 or "shesh besh" tournaments which take place daily.

Samaritans

In 1954, the president of Israel, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi

Yitzhak Ben-Zvi was a historian, Labor Zionism leader, and the second and longest-serving President of Israel....
 helped to establish a Samaritan
Samaritan

The Samaritans , known in the Talmud as Cuthim , are an ethnoreligious group of the Levant. Ancestrally, they claim descent from a group of Israelite inhabitants who have connections to ancient Samaria from the beginning of the Babylonian Exile up to the beginning of the Common Era....
 quarter on the outskirts of Holon. The quarter was named Neve Pinchas after Pinhas Ben-Abraham, the high priest of the Samaritan community.

Sports

  • Hapoel Tzafririm Holon F.C.
    Hapoel Tzafririm Holon F.C.

    Hapoel Tzafririm Holon F.C. is an Israeli football club based in the city of Holon. The club was founded in the 1980s by a merger of Hapoel Holon and Tzafririm Holon....
     (football) - Liga Alef
    Liga Alef

    Liga Alef is the fourth tier of the Israeli football league system....
     [4th tier]
  • Hapoel Holon
    Hapoel Holon

    Hapoel Holon is an basketball club based in Holon, Israel. They play in Ligat HaAl , the top division of Israeli basketball. The club won their first championship in 2008, beating perennial champions Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C....
     (basketball) - premier league, current national champion
  • Maccabi Kiryat-Sharett Holon (handball) - Liga Leumit [1st tier]
  • Hapoel Holon chess (chess) - Liga Leumit [1st tier]


Notable residents

  • Rafi Amit
    Rafi Amit

    Rafi Amit , is an Israeli professional poker player from Holon, Israel.Amit has won two WSOP bracelet at the World Series of Poker one in the 2005 World Series of Poker Omaha hold 'em and the other in 2007 World Series of Poker in the $1,000 Lowball with rebuys 2007_World_Series_of_Poker_results#Event_48:_.241.2C000_Deuce_to_Seven_Triple_D...
     poker player
  • David Ben Dayan
    David Ben Dayan

    David "Dedi" Ben Dayan is an Israeli football defender, who currently plays for Maccabi Netanya F.C. in Israel. He is known for his good tackling, and also speed and his ability to join the atack....
     (1978–) soccer player
  • David D'Or
    David D'Or

    David D'Or as David Nehaisi, is an Israeli countertenor, writer, and composer.D'Or is a great-grandson of a prominent Libyan rabbi, and a descendant of a family of Jews expelled from Spain during the Inquisition....
     (1966–) countertenor
  • Dana International
    Dana International

    Sharon Cohen , professionally known as Dana International is an Israeli Pop music singer of a Yemenite Jewish origin. She is most famous for having won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest with her song "Diva ." She is arguably one of the most famous transsexual celebrities in the world....
     (1972–) pop singer
  • Eran Kolirin
    Eran Kolirin

    Eran Kolirin is an Israel screenwriter and film director. His directorial debut and as of 2008 his only feature-length film is The Band's Visit ....
     (1973–) cinema director and script writer
  • Lior Narkis
    Lior Narkis

    Lior Narkis is an Israeli singer.Lior Narkis dreamt of becoming a singer since childhood. He released his first album, Tfilat Chayay at the age of 16....
     (1976–) popular singer
  • Peter Rott
    Peter Rott

    Peter Rott is an Israeli singer and record producer, and a member of the Israeli rock band, Monica Sex....
     (1974–) rock singer and composer
  • Ben Sahar
    Ben Sahar

    Ben Sahar is an Israeli footballer contracted to Chelsea F.C., currently on loan at De Graafschap.Sahar is known as one of Israel's brightest talents, according to Chelsea....
     (1989–) soccer player
  • Arie Vardi
    Arie Vardi

    Arie Vardi is an Israeli classical pianist and piano pedagogue.He is currently teaching at the Buhmann-Mehta Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, the Hochschule f?r Musik und Theater in Hanover and at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine....
     pianist and teacher


Mayors

  • Haim Kugel - 1940 to 1953
  • Pinhas Eylon - 1953 to 1987
  • Haim Sharon - 1987 to 1988
  • Moshe Rom - 1988 to 1993
  • Moti Sasson - 1993 to present


Twin cities

See also: Town twinning
Town twinning

Town twinning, also known as sister cities, is a concept whereby towns or city in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired, with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links between their inhabitants....
.
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    Dayton, Ohio
    Dayton, Ohio

    Dayton is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, Ohio, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. The population was 166,179 at the United States Census, 2000....
    , USA
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    Suresnes
    Suresnes

    ame=SuresnesThe Seine River in Suresnes with the skyscrapers of La D?fense in the background.|map=Suresnes_map.svg|mapcaption=Paris and inner ring d?partements|...
    , France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
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    Berlin-Mitte, Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
  • Flag of Germany
    Hann-Münden
    Hannoversch Münden

    Hann. M?nden is the German official name of a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. The city is located in the district of G?ttingen at the confluence of the Fulda River and Werra rivers, which join to form of the river Weser....
    , Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
  • Anshan, China
    China

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Partnership of kindness with:
  • Flag of South Korea
    Andong
    Andong

    Andong is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in Gyeongsangbuk-do Province, South Korea. It is the largest city in the northern part of the province with a population of almost 185,000....
    , South Korea
    South Korea

    South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....


See also

  • Holon Academic Institute of Technology
    Holon Academic Institute of Technology

    Holon Institute of Technology , an List of universities in Israel in Holon, IsraelThe institute is one of two in Israel which offer career training and research in engineering and technology; the other is the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa....
  • Samaritans


External links

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