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Kiryat Yam ( he, קִרְיַת יָם, lit. ''Sea Town'') is a city in the Haifa Bay district of Israel, north of
Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...
. One of a group of Haifa suburbs known as the Krayot, it is located on the Mediterranean coast, between Kiryat Haim and the Tzur Shalom industrial area, east of Kiryat Motzkin. In it had a population of .


History

The area was acquired by the Jewish community as part of the
Sursock Purchase The Sursock Purchase of the Jezreel Valley and Haifa Bay, as well as other parts of Mandatory Palestine, was the largest Jewish land purchase in Palestine during the period of early Jewish immigration. The Jezreel Valley was considered the most f ...
, in which a large tract of land on the Haifa Bay was purchased from the Sursock family of Beirut by the
American Zion Commonwealth The American Zion Commonwealth ( he, קהילת ציון אמריקאית) was a Zionist settlement corporation that played an important part in the Jewish settlement of Palestine before the establishment of the State of Israel. The American Zio ...
in 1925. In 1928, the Bayside Land Corporation, a joint venture of the Palestine Economic Corporation and 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 ...
, acquired 2,400 dunams of residential land in a deal related to the building of the IPC oil pipeline.Glass, 2002, p
236
/ref> Development of a residential area began in 1939, and the first houses were completed in 1940.


Demographics

Kiryat Yam has a population of 38,945. The northern area of the city is home to many immigrants from the former
Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
, North Africa and
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 ...
in which the municipality and its mayor Shmuel Sisso worked to build dozens of centers and homes to help the immigrants settle. The city is ranked medium on the socio-economic scale.


Schools

Kiryat Yam has 15 preschools, eight elementary schools and 3 high schools (Rabin, Rodman & Levinson) with a student population of 10,000.


Israeli-Arab conflict

During the
2006 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 ...
, Kiryat Yam was hit by
Hezbollah Hezbollah (; ar, حزب الله ', , also transliterated Hizbullah or Hizballah, among others) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group, led by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah since 1992. Hezbollah's parami ...
rockets and suffered casualties and property damage.


Urban development

Urban development plans aimed at upgrading the old Gimmel neighborhood were blocked by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, whose main weapons development plant borders Kiryat Yam. In 2009, the Haifa district planning committee approved high-rise construction for the neighborhood, overruling Rafael's objections.


Neighbourhoods

*Kiryat Yam (Dalet) - including Almogim *Kiryat Yam (Gimmel) - built in the 1950s *Kiryat Yam (Bet) *Kiryat Yam (Alef) *Savyoney Yam *Psagot Yam & Bne Beitkha


Notable people

*
Avner Shats Avner Shats ( he, אבנר שץ; born 1959) is an Israeli author and poet. Born in Kiryat Yam, Israel, he now lives in Haifa. Having attended the naval academy in Acre as a boy, Shats commanded a swift boat on the Dead Sea before going to work ...
(born 1959), author and poet *
Sam Vaknin Shmuel "Sam" Vaknin (born April 21, 1961) is an Israeli writer and professor of psychology.Vaknin, Sam"Curriculum Vitae" samvak.tripod.com, accessed October 27, 2021 He is the author of ''Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited'' (1999), was t ...
(born 1961), writer *
Orel Grinfeld Orel Grinfeld ( he, אוראל גרינפלד; born 21 August 1981) is an Israeli football referee. He has been on the FIFA list of international referees since 2012, and took charge of his first international matches in March that year, offi ...
(born 1981), football referee *
Gil Vermouth Gil Vermouth ( he, גיל "גילי" ורמוט; born August 5, 1985) is an Israeli former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or winger. Club career Vermouth is Jewish, and was born in Kiryat Yam, Israel. Vermouth st ...
(born 1985), footballer


Twin towns – sister cities

Kiryat Yam is twinned with: * Créteil,
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(France) * Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin (Germany) *
Makó Makó (, german: Makowa, yi, מאַקאָווע Makowe, ro, Macău or , sk, Makov) is a town in Csongrád County, in southeastern Hungary, from the Romanian border. It lies on the Maros River. Makó is home to 23,272 people and it has an area ...
(Hungary) *
Poti Poti ( ka, ფოთი ; Mingrelian: ფუთი; Laz: ჶაში/Faşi or ფაში/Paşi) is a port city in Georgia, located on the eastern Black Sea coast in the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti in the west of the country. Built near t ...
(Georgia) *
Sighetu Marmației Sighetu Marmației (, also spelled ''Sighetul Marmației''; german: Marmaroschsiget or ''Siget''; hu, Máramarossziget, ; uk, Сигіт, Syhit; yi, סיגעט, Siget), until 1960 Sighet, is a city (Municipalities of Romania, municipality) in ...
(Romania)


References

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