Pardesiya is a town (
local councilLocal councils are one of the three types of local government found in Israel, with the other two being cities and regional councils. As of 2003, there were 144 local councils in Israel, these being settlements which pass a minimum threshold enough to justify their operations as independent...
) in the
Center DistrictThe Central District of Israel is one of six administrative districts, including most of the Sharon region. The district capital is Ramla. It is further divided into 4 sub-districts: Petah Tikva, Ramla, Sharon and Rehovot. The district's largest city is Rishon LeZion. Its population as of 2008 was...
of
IsraelIsrael officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia 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...
. It is located on the Sharon plain, between Kfar Yona and the
Lev HaSharon Regional CouncilLev HaSharon Regional Council is a regional council in the Center District of Israel. The council was established in 1984, unifying Hadar HaSharon and HaSharon HaTzfoni Regional Councils, and covers 18 villages with a total area of 57,000 dunams and a population of 13,600.It borders Hefer Valley...
. It was founded between 1937 and 1939. Its population in 2007 was 6,200, and its jurisdiction is 1,273 dunams (~1.3 km
2)
The lands of Pardesiya were purchased in 1928 by Jean-Yona Fisher, but remained unused. In 1937, Avraham Tabib of the Yemenite
olimAliyah is the immigration of Jews to Eretz Israel. It is a basic tenet of Zionist ideology, and a value in almost all movements of Judaism...
organization asked its members to come to the land to build a village, promising cheap land.
Pardesiya is a town (
local councilLocal councils are one of the three types of local government found in Israel, with the other two being cities and regional councils. As of 2003, there were 144 local councils in Israel, these being settlements which pass a minimum threshold enough to justify their operations as independent...
) in the
Center DistrictThe Central District of Israel is one of six administrative districts, including most of the Sharon region. The district capital is Ramla. It is further divided into 4 sub-districts: Petah Tikva, Ramla, Sharon and Rehovot. The district's largest city is Rishon LeZion. Its population as of 2008 was...
of
IsraelIsrael officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia 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...
. It is located on the Sharon plain, between Kfar Yona and the
Lev HaSharon Regional CouncilLev HaSharon Regional Council is a regional council in the Center District of Israel. The council was established in 1984, unifying Hadar HaSharon and HaSharon HaTzfoni Regional Councils, and covers 18 villages with a total area of 57,000 dunams and a population of 13,600.It borders Hefer Valley...
. It was founded between 1937 and 1939. Its population in 2007 was 6,200, and its jurisdiction is 1,273 dunams (~1.3 km
2)
History
The lands of Pardesiya were purchased in 1928 by Jean-Yona Fisher, but remained unused. In 1937, Avraham Tabib of the Yemenite
olimAliyah is the immigration of Jews to Eretz Israel. It is a basic tenet of Zionist ideology, and a value in almost all movements of Judaism...
organization asked its members to come to the land to build a village, promising cheap land. Twenty families came and in 1939 completed the construction. During
World War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, the villagers found themselves unemployed and unable to pay taxes for their housing. The residents managed to settle the issue with the
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and coninued living in the village. After the war, a new neighborhood was built, as well as a
ma'abaraThe Ma'abarot were refugee camps in Israel in the 1950s. The Ma'abarot were meant to provide accommodation for the large influx of new Olim arriving in the newly independent state of Israel....
to absorb new immigrants. Pardesiya gained local council status in 1952.
Geography and location
Pardesiya is located on the Sharon plain, bordering Kfar Yona on the east and
Tzur MosheTzur Moshe is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain near Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lev HaSharon Regional Council. In 2007 it had a population of 2,400....
of the
Lev HaSharon Regional CouncilLev HaSharon Regional Council is a regional council in the Center District of Israel. The council was established in 1984, unifying Hadar HaSharon and HaSharon HaTzfoni Regional Councils, and covers 18 villages with a total area of 57,000 dunams and a population of 13,600.It borders Hefer Valley...
.
Highway 4Highway 4 is an Israeli highway that runs along Israel's entire coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea, its route in the north runs from the Rosh HaNikra border crossing with Lebanon until the Erez Border Crossing with the Gaza Strip...
borders the town to the west, and Road 5613 to the south. Its elevation is 35 m above sea level.
Demographics
In 2005, the population of Har Adar was 99.5% Jewish, with an additional 0.5% being other non-Arabs. Out of the 3,100 residents, 3,000 were men, and 1,100 women. The age distribution was as follows:
| Age | 0 - 4 | 5 - 9 | 10 - 14 | 15 - 19 | 20 - 29 | 30 - 44 | 45 - 59 | 60 - 64 | 65 - 74 | 75+ |
|---|
| Percentage |
5.9 |
8.4 |
11.3 |
11.8 |
16.9 |
17.2 |
23.8 |
2.0 |
1.5 |
1.2 |
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