Tzoran-Kadima

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Tzoran-Kadima

Kadima, Israel redirects here. For the political party, see Kadima
Kadima

Kadima is a centrist List of political parties in Israel in Israel founded by like-minded Likud and Israeli Labor Party politicians. It became the largest party in the Knesset after the Israeli legislative election, 2006, winning 29 of the 120 seats....
.

Tzoran-Kadima , also known as Kadima-Tzoran, is a local council

Local council (Israel)

Local councils are one of the three types of local government found in Israel, with the other two being list of cities in Israel and Regional council ....
in the Center District

Center District (Israel)

The Center District of Israel is one of Districts of Israel, including most of the Sharon plain region. The district capital is Ramla. The district's largest city is Rishon LeZion....
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....
. It is the result of the 2003 union of the Tzoran and Kadima councils.

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....
, Tzoran-Kadima's population as of December 2006 was 16,600, up from 15,700 at the end of 2004. Most of these are Jews.

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Tzoran-Kadima , also known as Kadima-Tzoran, is a local council

Local council (Israel)

Local councils are one of the three types of local government found in Israel, with the other two being list of cities in Israel and Regional council ....
in the Center District

Center District (Israel)

The Center District of Israel is one of Districts of Israel, including most of the Sharon plain region. The district capital is Ramla. The district's largest city is Rishon LeZion....
of Israel

Israel

Israel Central Bureau of Statistics

or is a letter derived from the Latin alphabet. Both glyphs of the majuscule and Lower case forms of this letter are based on the rotated form of a minuscule e; a similar letter with identical minuscule is used in the Pan-Nigerian Alphabet, but has the capital form majuscule , based on a horizontally flipped majuscule E....
8,544, higher than the national average of ?

Bagrut

The Te'udat Bagrut, also written Te'udat Bagroot, is the official Israeli matriculation certificate. It is the high school qualification certificate in Israel, also called a matriculation certificate ....
(matriculation) certificate.

History

Kadima

Kadima was founded on July 5, 1933 as an agricultural settlement at the initiative of Yehoshua Hankin

Yehoshua Hankin

Yehoshua Hankin was a Zionism activist who was responsible for most of the major land purchases of the World Zionist Organization in Ottoman Empire Palestine....
. Most of the settlers were German immigrants. Kadima was declared a local council in 1950, and merged with Tzoran in 2003.

Kadima means "forward" in Hebrew, and comes from a Biblical verse (Habakkuk

Book of Habakkuk

The Book of Habakkuk is the eighth book of the 12 minor prophets of the Hebrew Bible. It is attributed to the prophet Habakkuk, and was probably composed in the late 7th century BCE....
1:9).

Tzoran

Tzoran, meaning silicon

Silicon

Silicon is the most common metalloid. It is a chemical element, which has the symbol Si and atomic number 14. The atomic mass is 28.0855....
, was founded in 1992 and was planned by architect Rachel Walden

Rachel Walden

Rachel Walden is an Israeli architect and city planner. She has planned Israeli settlements, including the 1992 settlement Tzoran-Kadima#Tzoran....
. The settlement was named after a Hasmonean

Hasmonean

The Hasmoneans were the ruling dynasty of the Hasmonean Kingdom of Israel , an independent Jewish state. The Hasmonean dynasty was established under the leadership of Simon Maccabaeus, two decades after his brother Judas Maccabeus defeated the Seleucid army during the Maccabean Revolt in 165 BCE....
city that had existed in the area. It was first populated in 1994, and declared a local council in 1997, until it merged with Kadima in 2003.