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Giv'at Olga ( he, גבעת אולגה, "Olga's Hill") is a neighborhood of the
/ref>, Eventually in 2004 the house was renovated and a restaurant was opened in it operated by Eric Vashdi, a long-time manager of Beit Hankin. However in 2021 the site was shut down because the coastal cliff upon which it stands is unstable. At the same time works have been started to stabilize this part the coastal area. For another house of Hankins, see Ma'ayan Harod#House and tomb of Yehoshua Hankin
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Olga Beach Nature Reserve is southeast of the neighborhood.
Giv'at Olga ( he, גבעת אולגה, "Olga's Hill") is a neighborhood of the Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
i city of Hadera
Hadera ( he, חֲדֵרָה ) is a city located in the Haifa District of Israel, in the northern Sharon region, approximately 45 kilometers (28 miles) from the major cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa. The city is located along 7 km (5&nbs ...
. It was named after Olga Hankin, the wife of the Zionist activist Yehoshua Hankin
Yehoshua Hankin ( he, יהושע חנקין, 1864 – 11 November 1945) was a Zionist activist who was responsible for most of the major land purchases of the Zionist Organization in Ottoman Palestine and Mandatory Palestine – in particular for ...
. It was founded in 1949 around the house Hankin built known as Olga Hankin's House (Beit Olga Hankin or simply Beit Hankin).
Beit Olga Hankin
Olga's House is built on akurkar
Kurkar ( ar, كركار / he, כורכר) is the term used in Palestinian Arabic and modern Hebrew for the rock type of which lithified sea sand dunes consist. The equivalent term used in Lebanon is ramleh. haron Horowitz. ''The Quaternary of I ...
cliff, which Hankin named Olga's Hill (after which the neighborhood was named). The cliff is part of the Sharon coastal ridge. The house was built in the Bauhaus style and oversees the Kfar Hayam beach of the Binyamin Bay. For a long Olga's House was in the state of neglect and disrepair."Givat Olga"/ref>, Eventually in 2004 the house was renovated and a restaurant was opened in it operated by Eric Vashdi, a long-time manager of Beit Hankin. However in 2021 the site was shut down because the coastal cliff upon which it stands is unstable. At the same time works have been started to stabilize this part the coastal area. For another house of Hankins, see Ma'ayan Harod#House and tomb of Yehoshua Hankin
Science, sports, recreation
Giv'at Olga is the location of the Technoda (), an educational center for science and technology, equipped with a state-of-the-art telescope and planetarium. During 1953-2015 Giv'at Olga had a football club.F.C
Notable residents
*Yehoshua Hankin
Yehoshua Hankin ( he, יהושע חנקין, 1864 – 11 November 1945) was a Zionist activist who was responsible for most of the major land purchases of the Zionist Organization in Ottoman Palestine and Mandatory Palestine – in particular for ...
* Olga Hankin
*Moshe Kahlon
Moshe Kahlon ( he, מֹשֶׁה כַּחְלוֹן, born 19 November 1960) is a retired Israeli politician. Between 2003 and 2013 he served as a member of the Knesset for Likud, and as Minister of Communications and Minister of Welfare & Social ...
(born here in 1960), Israeli politician
* Or Kahlon (born here in 1988), Israeli dancer
*Tzuri Gueta Tzuri Gueta (Hebrew: צורי גואטה; born 1968) is an Israeli jewelry and fabric designer based in Paris.
Background and education
Gueta was born in Givat Olga, Israel, in 1968. His parents immigrated to Israel on aliyah from Tripoli, Liby ...
* Isaac Bachman
See also
* Sharon EscarpmentReferences
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