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. It was named after
Olga Hankin
Olga Hankin (or Khankin, he, אוֹלְגָּה חַנְקִין, 9 January 1852 - 21 April 1943) was a feminism, feminist, professional midwife and Zionism, Zionist activist who, together with her husband, Yehoshua Hankin, was responsible for mos ...
, the wife of the Zionist activist
Yehoshua Hankin. It was founded in 1949 around the house Hankin built known as Olga Hankin's House (Beit Olga Hankin or simply Beit Hankin).
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Beit Olga Hankin
Olga's House is built on a kurkar cliff, which Hankin named Olga's Hill (after which the neighborhood was named). The cliff is part of the Sharon coastal ridge
The Sharon Escarpment or Sharon CliffE. Galil, D. Zviely"Geo-archaeological markers reveal magnitude and rates of Israeli coastal cliff erosion and retreat" ''Journal of Coastal Conservation'', Vol. 23, Issue. 4, 2019, pp. 747-758, is the ...
. The house was built in the Bauhaus
The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 200 ...
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.FC Givat Olga: History
F.C
Olga Beach Nature Reserve is southeast of the neighborhood.
Notable residents
* Yehoshua Hankin
*Olga Hankin
Olga Hankin (or Khankin, he, אוֹלְגָּה חַנְקִין, 9 January 1852 - 21 April 1943) was a feminism, feminist, professional midwife and Zionism, Zionist activist who, together with her husband, Yehoshua Hankin, was responsible for mos ...
* Moshe Kahlon (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
Isaac Bahman ( he, יצחק בחמן; born 1957) is an Israeli diplomat who serves as ambassador, senior diplomatic advisor for the Knesset. Bachman Served as a special envoy for digital diplomacy at the Foreign Ministry of Israel, as the Chief P ...
See also
*Sharon Escarpment
The Sharon Escarpment or Sharon CliffE. Galil, D. Zviely"Geo-archaeological markers reveal magnitude and rates of Israeli coastal cliff erosion and retreat" ''Journal of Coastal Conservation'', Vol. 23, Issue. 4, 2019, pp. 747-758, is the ...
References
Hadera
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