Kiryat Bialik ( he, קִרְייַת בְּיַאלִיק, also Qiryat Bialik) is a city in the
Haifa District
Haifa District ( he, מחוז חיפה, ''Mehoz Ḥeifa''; ar, منطقة حيفا) is an administrative district surrounding the city of Haifa, Israel. The district is one of the Districts of Israel, seven administrative districts of Israel, a ...
in
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 ...
. It is one of the five
Krayot
The Krayot ( he, הקריות, "townships") (plural of ''Kirya'') are a cluster of four small cities and two neighbourhoods of Haifa founded in the 1930s on the outskirts of the city of Haifa, Israel, in the Haifa Bay area.
The Krayot include Ki ...
suburbs to the north of Haifa. In it had a population of .
The city was named after the poet
Hayim Nahman Bialik
Hayim Nahman Bialik ( he, חיים נחמן ביאַליק; January 9, 1873 – July 4, 1934), was a Jewish poet who wrote primarily in Hebrew but also in Yiddish. Bialik was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poetry. He was part of the vangu ...
.
History
In 1924, Ephraim and Sabina Katz, who
immigrated
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from
Romania
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, were the first Jews to settle in the
Zevulun Valley
The Zevulun Valley or Zvulun Valley ( he, עמק זבולון, Emek Zvulun) is a fertile coastal territory in the North of Israel, part of the Israeli coastal plain along the Haifa Bay.
The length of the valley is 14 km, with its maximum wid ...
in
Haifa Bay
The Bay of Haifa or Haifa Bay ( he, מפרץ חיפה, ''Mifratz Heifa''), formerly Bay of Acre, is a bay along the Mediterranean coast of Northern Israel. Haifa Bay is Israel's only natural harbor on the Mediterranean.
''Haifa Bay'' also ref ...
. Their farm was destroyed in the
1929 Palestine riots
The 1929 Palestine riots, Buraq Uprising ( ar, ثورة البراق, ) or the Events of 1929 ( he, מאורעות תרפ"ט, , ''lit.'' Events of 5689 Anno Mundi), was a series of demonstrations and riots in late August 1929 in which a longst ...
. The one house that survived the riots, Beit Katz, was bequeathed to Kiryat Bialik in 1959 and designated for public use.
The town of Kiryat Bialik was established in July 1934 by a group of German Jewish immigrants who received a plot of land from the
Jewish National Fund
Jewish National Fund ( he, קֶרֶן קַיֶּימֶת לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, ''Keren Kayemet LeYisrael'', previously , ''Ha Fund HaLeumi'') was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Syria (later Mandatory Palestine, and subseq ...
. The residents were mainly free professionals, doctors, engineers and lawyers who lived in private homes with gardens. During World War II, Kiryat Bialik was bombed due to its proximity to the
oil refineries in Haifa.
![קרית ביאליק - צילום אויר](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%AA_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A7_-_%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D_%D7%90%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A8.-JNF044935.jpeg)
In 1950, it was declared a local council, attaining city status in 1976.
Local government
Mayors
* Zvi Karliner (1945-1985);
* Danny Zack (1985-2003);
* Rafi Wertheim (2003-2008);
* Eli Dukorsky (2008-)
Demographics
![Kiryat Bialik 1944](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Kiryat_Bialik_1944.jpg)
According to
CBS
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, the ethnic makeup of Kiryat Bialik in 2008 was all
Jew
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ish, without a significant
Arab
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population. There were 17,900 males and 19,200 females. In 2003 25.8% of the population was 19 years of age or younger, 15.8% between 20 and 29, 17.4% between 30 and 44, 21.5 from 45 to 59, 3.8% from 60 to 64, and 15.6% 65 years of age or older. The population growth rate in 2005 was -0.3%.The city is ranked medium-high on the socio-economic scale (7 out of 10) Many Jewish immigrants have settled in Kiryat Bialik from
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
,
the former Soviet Union and
Argentina
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.
Economy
According to CBS figures for 2002, there were 17,514 salaried workers and 912 self-employed in Kiryat Bialik. The mean monthly wage for a salaried worker was 6,119
NIS
Nis, Niš, NiS or NIS may refer to:
Places
* Niš, a city in Serbia
* Nis, Iran, a village
* Ness, Lewis ( gd, Nis, links=no), a village in the Outer Hebrides islands
Businesses and organizations
* Naftna Industrija Srbije, Petroleum Industry o ...
; salaried males had a mean monthly wage of 7,851 NIS versus 4,491 NIS for females The mean income for the self-employed was 5,996 NIS. 557 people received
unemployment benefit
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s and 2,701 people received a
guaranteed minimum income
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.
The town was known for the
Ata textile factory, established in 1934 by Erich Moller.
The Ata plant, which opened in 1934, became an icon of the Israeli textile industry. It suffered from financial problems in the 1960s and closed down in 1985.
Education
According to CBS, there are 9 schools and 6,291 students in the city: 6
elementary school
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s with 2,540 students, and 3
secondary education
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schools (2
junior high
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and 1
high school
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, under the same administration) with 3,751 students. 63.4% of
12th grade
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students were entitled to a
Bagrut
Te'udat Bagrut (, ''lit.'' "maturity certificate", Arabic: شهادة بجروت) is a certificate that attests that a student has successfully passed Israel's high school matriculation examination. Bagrut is a prerequisite for higher education ...
(matriculation) certificate in 2002.
Second Lebanon War (2006)
During the
Second Lebanon War
The 2006 Lebanon War, also called the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War and known in Lebanon as the July War ( ar, حرب تموز, ''Ḥarb Tammūz'') and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War ( he, מלחמת לבנון השנייה, ''Milhemet Leva ...
in 2006, the city suffered hits from 15
Katyushas and other types of rockets sent by Hezbollah.
Notable people
![MHFC-Yochanan-Wallach](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/MHFC-Yochanan-Wallach.jpg)
*
Netanel Artzi (born 1997), Israeli basketball player
*
Ronen Bergman
Ronen Bergman ( he, רונן ברגמן; born June 16, 1972) is an Israeli investigative journalist and author. He is a senior political and military analyst for ''Yedioth Ahronoth'', Israel's largest-circulation daily.
Bergman has written for '' ...
(born 1972), investigative journalist and author
*
Shani Bloch
Shani Bloch, also known as Shani Bloch-Davidov ( he, שני בלוך; born 6 March 1979) is an Israeli racing cyclist.
Bloch is the first Israeli road cyclist to compete in the Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale, Giro d'Italia Femminile, and ...
(born 1979), Olympic racing cyclist
*
Anastasia Gorbenko (born 2003), swimmer
*
Aviv Kochavi
Rav-Aluf (Lieutenant General) Aviv Kochavi ( he, אביב כוכבי; born 23 April 1964) is the Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, having taken the oath of office on January 15, 2019. He was the commander of the Gaza Division, ...
(born 1964),
Israel Defense Forces
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the Israel, State of Israel. It consists of three servic ...
Chief of Staff
*
Amnon Pazy
Amnon Pazy, אמנון פזי (10 January 1936 – 17 August 2006) was an Israeli mathematician who specialized in partial differential equations (PDE), making important contributions to the PDE field and Semigroups. He served as president of th ...
(1936–2006), mathematician; President of the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
*
Revital Sharon
Revital Sharon ( he, רויטל שרון; born December 2, 1970) is an Israeli former Olympic artistic gymnast. At the age of 11, in 1982 Sharon won a gold medal at the International Workers’ Games in Italy.
In 1988, Sharon was Israel's Nationa ...
(born 1970), Olympic artistic gymnast
*
Moti Taka (born 1997), singer
*
Zehava Vardi, Miss Israel 1977
*
Yochanan Vollach
Yochanan Vollach ( he, יוחנן וולך, also Jochanan Wallach or Yohanan Wallach, born May 14, 1945) is an Israeli former footballer. He was a member of the Israeli national team that competed at the 1970 FIFA World Cup. He is a member of th ...
(born 1945), association football player
Twin towns – sister cities
Kiryat Bialik is
twinned with:
*
Hlybokaye
Hlybokaye or Glubokoye ( be, Глыбокае, translit=Hłybokaje, russian: Глубокое, translit=Glubokoye, pl, Głębokie, lt, Glubokas, yi, גלובאָק, Glubok) is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus, the capital of Hlybokaye Raion ( ...
, Belarus
*
İsmayıllı, Azerbaijan
*
Radomsko
Radomsko is a city in southern Poland with 44,700 inhabitants (2021). It is situated on the Radomka river in the Łódź Voivodeship (since 1999), having previously been in Piotrków Trybunalski Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is the county seat ...
, Poland
*
Rosh HaAyin
Rosh HaAyin ( he, רֹאשׁ הָעַיִן, lit="fountainhead", , ar, روش هاعين) is a city in the Central District of Israel. To the west of Rosh HaAyin is the fortress of Antipatris and the source of the Yarkon River. To the southeas ...
, Israel
*
Steglitz-Zehlendorf (Berlin), Germany
*
Chemnitz
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, Germany
*
Zakynthos
Zakynthos (also spelled Zakinthos; el, Ζάκυνθος, Zákynthos ; it, Zacinto ) or Zante (, , ; el, Τζάντε, Tzánte ; from the Venetian form) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. Za ...
, Greece
*
Zestaponi
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, Georgia
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Populated places established in 1934
1934 establishments in Mandatory Palestine