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Rosh HaAyin (lit. head of the fountain) is a city in the Center District of 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....
. To the west of Rosh HaAyin is the fortress of Antipatris
Antipatris

Antipatris, one of two places known as Tel Afek, was a city built by Herod the Great, and named in honour of his father, Antipater the Idumaean....
 and the source of the Yarkon River. To the southeast is the fortress of Migdal Afek
Migdal Afek

Migdal Afek or Migdal Tsedek is a site located near the town of Rosh HaAyin, Israel. The site includes ruins of the crusaders' fortress Mirabel. In 1994 the site was declared national park....
 (Migdal Tzedek). At the end of 2007, the population of Rosh HaAyin was 37,900.

HaAyin was founded in the 1950s near the site of ancient Afek
Afek

Afek is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Zevulun Valley in the Western Galilee, near the Archaeology site of Tel Afek and the HaKerayot agglomeration, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council....
, on the grounds of a British military camp.






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Rosh HaAyin (lit. head of the fountain) is a city in the Center District of 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....
. To the west of Rosh HaAyin is the fortress of Antipatris
Antipatris

Antipatris, one of two places known as Tel Afek, was a city built by Herod the Great, and named in honour of his father, Antipater the Idumaean....
 and the source of the Yarkon River. To the southeast is the fortress of Migdal Afek
Migdal Afek

Migdal Afek or Migdal Tsedek is a site located near the town of Rosh HaAyin, Israel. The site includes ruins of the crusaders' fortress Mirabel. In 1994 the site was declared national park....
 (Migdal Tzedek). At the end of 2007, the population of Rosh HaAyin was 37,900.

History

Rosh HaAyin was founded in the 1950s near the site of ancient Afek
Afek

Afek is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Zevulun Valley in the Western Galilee, near the Archaeology site of Tel Afek and the HaKerayot agglomeration, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council....
, on the grounds of a British military camp. Many of the residents were Yemenite Jews
Yemenite Jews

Yemenite Jews are those Jews who live, or whose recent ancestors lived, in Yemen , on the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Virtually the entire Jewish population emigrated from Yemen between June 1949 and September 1950 in what was deemed Operation Magic Carpet ....
 airlifted to 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....
 in 1949 and 1950 in Operation Magic Carpet
Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen)

Operation Magic Carpet is a widely-known nickname for Operation On Wings of Eagles, an operation between June 1949 and September 1950 that brought 49,000 Yemenite Jews to the new state of Israel....
. The town still has a large Yemenite population. Rosh HaAyin is named after its location at the mouth of the the Yarkon Spring (rosh = head, ayin = spring).

Demographics

According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
Israel Central Bureau of Statistics

The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , abbreviated CBS, is an Israeli government office established in 1949 to carry out research and publish statistical data on all aspects of Israeli life, including population, society, economy, industry, education and physical infrastructure....
 (CBS), in 2001 the ethnic makeup of the city was 99.8% Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish, with a predominant number of young people below the age of 19. The population growth rate was 2.5%.

Economy

According to the CBS, there were 10,972 salaried workers and 1,033 self-employed in 2000. The mean monthly wage for a salaried worker was NIS 6,595, a real change of 11.2% over the course of 2000. Salaried males had a mean monthly wage of NIS 8,408 (a real change of 7.8%) versus NIS 4,857 for females (a real change of 13.1%). The mean income for the self-employed was 6,853. 628 people received unemployment benefits and 1,057 received an income supplement.

Education

According to the CBS, there were 21 schools in Rosh Ha'ayin, with an enrollment of 7,137. Fifteen were elementary schools with an enrollment of 4,749 and 11 were high schools with an enrollment of 2,388. In 2001, 58.8% of Rosh Ha'ayin's 12th grade students were entitled to a matriculation
Matriculation

Matriculation, in the broadest sense, means to be registered or added to a list, from the Latin matricula - little list. In Scottish heraldry, for instance, a matriculation is a registration of armorial bearings....
 certificate.

Twin cities

On November 9, 2005, Rosh HaAyin signed a twin city agreement with Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the largest city in the United States state of Alabama and is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama. It also includes part of Shelby County, Alabama....
, USA. Rosh HaAyin Mayor Moshe Sinai visited Birmingham for the signing, formalising a relationship that had already existed for over twenty years. At the same ceremony, the city of Karak
Karak

The term Karak can refer to:* Karak, Pakistan, a city in Pakistan.* Karak District, a district of NWFP, Pakistan.* Al Karak, a city in Jordan that contains a famous Crusader castle....
, Jordan
Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is an Arab country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba....
 signed a twin city agreement with Birmingham. Although Rosh HaAyin and Karak did not sign such an agreement, the mayors promised to work together and improve the relationship between their two cities.

Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the largest city in the United States state of Alabama and is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama. It also includes part of Shelby County, Alabama....
, United States
United States

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 Prague
Prague

Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....
, Czech Republic
Czech Republic

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 Aachen
Aachen

is a historic spa town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the westernmost city of Germany, located along its borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, 65 km west of Cologne....
, Germany
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 New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

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, United States
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