Rehovot ( he, רְחוֹבוֹת ''Rəḥōvōt'', ar, رحوڤوت ''Reḥūfūt'') is a city in the
Central District of
Israel, about south of
Tel Aviv. In it had a population of .
Etymology
Israel Belkind, founder of the
Bilu movement, proposed the name "Rehovot" (lit. 'wide expanses') based on
Genesis
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Bible
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* Genesis creation narrative, the first several chapters of the Book o ...
26:22: "And he called the name of it ''Rehoboth''; and he said: 'For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land'."
This Bible verse is also inscribed in the city's logo. The biblical town of ''
Rehoboth'' was located in the
Negev Desert
The Negev or Negeb (; he, הַנֶּגֶב, hanNegév; ar, ٱلنَّقَب, an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region's largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba (pop. ), in the north. At its southe ...
.
History
Ottoman era
Rehovot was established in 1890 by pioneers of the
First Aliyah on the coastal plain near a site called ''Khirbat Deiran'', an "abandoned or sparsely populated" estate,
which now lies in the center of the built-up area of the city.
[ According to Marom, Deiran offered "a convenient launching pad for early land purchase initiatives which shaped the pattern of Jewish settlement until the beginning of the British Mandate".]
Excavations at ''Khirbat Deiran'' have revealed signs of habitation during the Hellenic, Roman and Byzantine periods, with a major expansion to about 60 dunam
A dunam ( Ottoman Turkish, Arabic: ; tr, dönüm; he, דונם), also known as a donum or dunum and as the old, Turkish, or Ottoman stremma, was the Ottoman unit of area equivalent to the Greek stremma or English acre, representing the amount ...
s during the early centuries of Islamic rule.[ Evidence of Jewish and possibly Samaritan occupants during the Roman and Byzantine periods has been found. In 1939, ''Khirbet Deiran'' was identified by Klein as ''Kerem Doron'' ("vineyard of Doron"), a place mentioned in Talmud Yerushalmi (''Peah'' 7:4), but Fischer believes that there is "no special reason" for this identification,] while Kalmin is unsure whether Doron was a place or a person.
Rehovot was founded as a moshava in 1890 by Polish Jewish immigrants who had come with the First Aliyah, seeking to establish a township which would not be under the influence of the Baron Edmond James de Rothschild, on land which was purchased from a Christian Arab
Arab Christians ( ar, ﺍَﻟْﻤَﺴِﻴﺤِﻴُّﻮﻥ ﺍﻟْﻌَﺮَﺏ, translit=al-Masīḥīyyūn al-ʿArab) are ethnic Arabs, Arab nationals, or Arabic language, Arabic-speakers who adhere to Christianity. The number of Arab ...
by the Menuha Venahala society, an organization in Warsaw that raised funds for Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel.
In March 1892, a dispute over pasture rights erupted between the residents of Rehovot and the neighboring village of Zarnuqa, which took two years to resolve. Another dispute broke out with the Suteriya Bedouin
The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (; , singular ) are nomadic Arabs, Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia. The Bedouin originated in the Syrian Desert ...
tribe, which had been cultivating some of the land as tenant farmers. According to Moshe Smilansky, one of the early settlers of Rehovot, the Bedouins had received compensation for the land, but refused to vacate it. In 1893, they attacked the moshava. Through the intervention of a respected Arab sheikh, a compromise was reached, with the Bedouins receiving an additional sum of money, which they used to dig a well.
In 1890, the region was an uncultivated wasteland with no trees, houses or water. The moshava's houses were initially built along two parallel streets: Yaakov Street and Benjamin Street, before later expanding, and vineyards, almond
The almond (''Prunus amygdalus'', syn. ''Prunus dulcis'') is a species of tree native to Iran and surrounding countries, including the Levant. The almond is also the name of the edible and widely cultivated seed of this tree. Within the genu ...
orchards and citrus grove
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s were planted, but the inhabitants grappled with agricultural failures, plant diseases, and marketing problems.
The first citrus grove was planted by Zalman Minkov in 1904. Minkov's grove, surrounded by a wall, included a guard house, stables, a packing plant, and an irrigation system in which groundwater was pumped from a large well in the inner courtyard. The well was 23 meters deep, the height of an eight-story building, and over six meters in diameter. The water was channeled via an aqueduct to an irrigation pool, and from there to a network of ditches dug around the bases of the trees.[
The Great Synagogue of Rehovot was established in 1903, during the First Aliyah period.
In 1908, the Workman's Union ('' Hapoel Hazair'') organized a group of 300 Yemenite immigrants then living in the region of Jerusalem and Jaffa, bringing them to work as farmers in the colonies of Rishon-le-Zion and Rehovot. Only a few dozen Yemenite families had joined Rehovot by 1908.] They built houses for themselves in a plot given to them at the south end of the town, which became known as Sha'araim.[ In 1910, Shmuel Warshawsky, with the secret support of the JNF, was sent to Yemen to recruit more agricultural laborers.][ Hundreds arrived starting in 1911 and were housed first in a compound one kilometre south of Rehovot and then in a large extension of the Sha'araim quarter.][
In 1913, Rehovot became the flashpoint for a dramatic turn in relations between the region's ethnicities: after an itinerant Arab camel driver who was passing through stole some grapes from a local farm, local Jewish settlers who arrived on the scene brutally attacked him, which led to the arrival of Arab reinforcements, then, it led to a skirmish that proved fatal - one death on each side of the gunfire. It is alleged that this was the moment when a previously peaceful co-existence among Jews and Arabs, united under the Ottoman Empire, instantly became an "us vs. them" divisiveness that has prevailed ever since.]
In February 1914, Rothschild visited Rehovot during the fourth of his five visits to the Land of Israel. That year, Rehovot had a population of around 955.
British Mandate
In 1920, the Rehovot Railway Station was opened, which greatly boosted the local citrus fruit industry. A few packing houses were built near the station so as to enable the fruit to be sent by railway to the rest of the country and to the port of Jaffa
Jaffa, in Hebrew Yafo ( he, יָפוֹ, ) and in Arabic Yafa ( ar, يَافَا) and also called Japho or Joppa, the southern and oldest part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, is an ancient port city in Israel. Jaffa is known for its association with the b ...
for export to Europe. According to a census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...
conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Rehovot had a population of 1,242 inhabitants, consisting of 1,241 Jews and 1 Muslim, increasing in 1931 census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...
to 3,193 inhabitants, in 833 houses.[Mills, 1932, p]
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In 1924, the British Army contracted the Palestine Electric Company for wired electric power. The contract allowed the Electric Company to extend the grid beyond the original geographical limits that had been projected by the concession it was given. The high-tension line that exceeded the limits of the original concession ran along some major towns and agricultural settlements, offering extended connections to the Jewish towns of Rishon Le-Zion, Ness Ziona and Rehovot (in spite of their proximity to the high-tension line, the Arab towns of Ramleh and Lydda remained unconnected).
In 1931, the first workers moshav
A moshav ( he, מוֹשָׁב, plural ', lit. ''settlement, village'') is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists between 1904 an ...
, ''Kfar Marmorek'', was built on lands which were acquired from the village of Zarnuqa by 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 ...
in 1926, and ten Yemenite Jewish families which were evicted from Kinneret were resettled on the land in 1931, and later, they were joined by thirty-five other families from Sha'araim. Today, it is a suburb of Rehovot.
The agricultural research station that opened in Rehovot in 1932 became the Department of Agriculture 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 ...
. In 1933, a juice factory was built. In 1934, Chaim Weizmann established the Sieff Institute, which later became the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 1937, Weizmann built his home on the land purchased adjacent to the Sieff Institute. The house later served as the presidential residence after Weizmann became president in 1948. Weizmann and his wife are buried on the grounds of the institute.
In 1945, Rehovot had a population of 10,020, and in 1948, it had grown to 12,500. The suburb of Rehovot, ''Kefar Marmorek'', had a population of 500 Jews in 1948.
State of Israel
On 29 February 1948, the Lehi
Lehi (; he, לח"י – לוחמי חרות ישראל ''Lohamei Herut Israel – Lehi'', "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel – Lehi"), often known pejoratively as the Stern Gang,"This group was known to its friends as LEHI and to its enemie ...
blew up the Cairo to Haifa train shortly after it left Rehovot, killing 29 British soldiers and injuring 35. Lehi said the bombing was in retaliation for the Ben Yehuda Street bombing a week earlier. '' The Scotsman'' reported that both Weizmann's home and the Agricultural Institute were damaged in the explosion, although the site was away. On 28 March 1948, Arabs attacked a Jewish convoy near Rehovot. In 1950, Rehovot, which had a population of about 18,000, was declared a city.
In the immediate years following the establishment of Israel, the ''Zarnuqa'' ma'abara (now named ''Kiryat Moshe'') was established on the Southern side of Rehovot to house Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe and Arab lands. On the Southwest, the neighborhood of ''Kfar Gevirol'' (now named ''Ibn Gevirol'', named after Solomon ibn Gabirol
Solomon ibn Gabirol or Solomon ben Judah ( he, ר׳ שְׁלֹמֹה בֶּן יְהוּדָה אִבְּן גָּבִּירוֹל, Shlomo Ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol, ; ar, أبو أيوب سليمان بن يحيى بن جبيرول, ’Abū ’Ayy ...
, 11th Century Sephardi Jewish Philosopher) was founded on lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Al-Qubayba. Over the years, ''Kiryat Moshe'' expanded over the lands of the depopulated Palestinian village of Zarnuqa. The mosque of the village, while abandoned, still stands. On the Southeast the neighborhood of Ramat Aharon were established. The city has since then expanded in all directions, geographically surrounding but not including the Kibbutz of Kvutzat Shiller and the Moshav of Gibton.
Demographics
Between 1914 and 1991, the town's population rose from 955 to 81,000, and its area more than doubled. Parts of Rehovot's suburbs are built on land that belonged to the village of Zarnuqa before 1948, population 2,620, including 240 Jews in Gibton. In 1995, there were 337,800 people living in the greater Rehovot area. , the ethnic makeup of the city was 99.8% Jewish. There were 49,600 males and 52,300 females, of whom 31.6% were 19 years of age or younger, 16.1% between the ages of 20 and 29, 18.2% between 30 and 44, 18.2% from 45 to 59, 3.5% from 60 to 64, and 12.3% 65 years of age or older. The population growth rate was 1.8%.[According to ]Israel Central Bureau of Statistics
The Israel Central Bureau of Statistics ( he, הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה, ''HaLishka HaMerkazit LiStatistika''; ar, دائرة الإحصاء المركزية الإسرائيلية), abbreviated CBS, is an Israeli government ...
dat
In Rehovot, there are three significant Jewish ethnic minorities: History of the Jews in Russia, Russian Jews, Yemenite Jews, and Ethiopian Jews
The Beta Israel ( he, בֵּיתֶא יִשְׂרָאֵל, ''Bēteʾ Yīsrāʾēl''; gez, ቤተ እስራኤል, , modern ''Bēte 'Isrā'ēl'', EAE: "Betä Ǝsraʾel", "House of Israel" or "Community of Israel"), also known as Ethiopian Jews ...
, concentrated largely in the Kiryat Moshe and Oshiot areas. There is a growing community of religious anglo speaking people who primarily live in Northern Rehovot around the Weizmann Institute of Science.
According to the 2019 census, the population of Rehovot was counted to be 143,904, of which 143,536 people, comprising 99.7% of the city's population were classified as " Jews and Others", and 368 people, comprising 0.3% as " Arab".
Education and culture
The city is home to the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Faculty of Agriculture 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 ...
, and the Peres Academic Center College. There are also a number of smaller colleges in Rehovot that provide specialized and technical training. Kaplan Medical Center acts as an ancillary teaching hospital for the Medical School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The Minkov Orchard Museum was established in Rehovot with the assistance of the Swiss descendants of Zalma Minkov, whose husband planted the city's first citrus grove.
Economy
, there were 41,323 salaried workers and 2,683 self-employed. The mean monthly wage for a salaried worker was ILS 6,732, a real change of −5.2% over the course of the previous year. Salaried males had a mean monthly wage of ILS 8,786 (a real change of −4.8%) versus ILS 4,791 for females (a real change of −5.3%). The mean income for the self-employed was 6,806. There were 1,082 people receiving unemployment benefits and 6,627 people receiving an income guarantee.[ In 2013, Rehovot had the highest average net monthly income among households in Israel, at NIS 16,800.
Rehovot is home to numerous industrial plants, and has an industrial park in the western part of the city. Among them are the Tnuva dairy plant, the Yafora-Tavori beverage factory, and the Feldman ice cream factory.
The Tamar Science Park, established in 2000, is a high-tech park of at the northern entrance of the city. The Tamar Science Park adjoins the older Kiryat Weizmann industrial park. Although the entire extended science park is largely conceived as an area of Rehovot, the Kiryat Weizmann part is actually under the municipal boundaries of neighbouring Ness Ziona. Tamar Science Park is home to branches of leading hi-tech and bio-tech companies.
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Sports
Rehovot has had three clubs representing it the top division of Israeli football: Maccabi Rehovot between 1949 and 1956, Maccabi Sha'arayim
Maccabi Sha'arayim ( he, מכבי שעריים) is an Israeli football club from the city Rehovot, currently playing in Liga Alef.
The club spent the past seven seasons in the top division from 1963 to 1969, and a single season in 1985–8 ...
between 1963 and 1969 and again in 1985, and Hapoel Marmorek in the 1972–73 season. It also has club Bnei Yeechalal which plays at Liga Bet South B.
Today Maccabi Sha'arayim is the highest-ranked club, playing in Liga Leumit, the second level. Marmorek play in Liga Alef, the third level; Maccabi Rehovot play in Liga Gimel, the fifth and lowest division.
During the 1980s, some local swimmers excelled, thanks to the local Weissgal Center Water Park.
List of Rehovot men football clubs playing at state level and above:
Transportation
Public transportation
Rehovot railway station is a suburban commuter railway station serving the city. A historic station that was abandoned since 1948, it was reopened in 1990 with a suburban service to Tel Aviv. It proved to be a major success, since most residents of Rehovot work in Tel Aviv. Following this success, extensive reconstruction work began in 2000, which included the construction of two new passenger terminals, a pedestrian tunnel under the railway, a bus terminal and two large parking lots. The station is situated on the Tel Aviv suburban line ( Binyamina/Netanya – Tel Aviv – Rehovot/ Ashkelon Suburban Service). All trains in this service stop at Rehovot, and some trains terminate at the station. This line connects the city to Tel Aviv via Lod
Lod ( he, לוד, or fully vocalized ; ar, اللد, al-Lidd or ), also known as Lydda ( grc, Λύδδα), is a city southeast of Tel Aviv and northwest of Jerusalem in the Central District of Israel. It is situated between the lower Shephe ...
.
The city is going to be served by 5 Metro Stations along one of the Southern Branches of Line M1, as part of the under construction Tel Aviv Metro
Tel Aviv Metro (also MetroTLV) is a planned subway system for the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area. It will augment the Tel Aviv Light Rail and Israel Railways suburban lines and consist of three underground metro lines to form a rapid transit transpo ...
Project. This line will connect the city to Tel Aviv via Holon
Holon ( he, חוֹלוֹן ) is a city on the central coastal strip of Israel, south of Tel Aviv. Holon is part of the metropolitan Gush Dan area. In it had a population of . Holon has the second-largest industrial zone in Israel, after Haifa. ...
.
The city is served internally and is also connected to other cities in the region, by bus routes operated by Egged Bus Company.
Roads
Rehovot is located between Trunk North-South Highway 40 and Highway 42. Highway 40 connects the city to Kiryat Gat and Beersheva
Beersheba or Beer Sheva, officially Be'er-Sheva ( he, בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, ''Bəʾēr Ševaʿ'', ; ar, بئر السبع, Biʾr as-Sabʿ, Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel. ...
in the South, while Highway 42 connects it to Ashdod
Ashdod ( he, ''ʾašdōḏ''; ar, أسدود or إسدود ''ʾisdūd'' or '' ʾasdūd'' ; Philistine: 𐤀𐤔𐤃𐤃 *''ʾašdūd'') is the sixth-largest city in Israel. Located in the country's Southern District, it lies on the Mediterran ...
. Highway 40 connects the city to Lod
Lod ( he, לוד, or fully vocalized ; ar, اللد, al-Lidd or ), also known as Lydda ( grc, Λύδδα), is a city southeast of Tel Aviv and northwest of Jerusalem in the Central District of Israel. It is situated between the lower Shephe ...
- Ramla to the North, also providing connection to Ben Gurion Airport
Ben Gurion International Airport, ; ar, مطار بن غوريون الدولي , commonly known by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the main international airport of Israel. Situated on the northern outskirts of the city of Lod, it is the ...
, and bypassing Metro Tel Aviv along the eastern edge, whereas Highway 42 connects the city to Rishon LeZion
Rishon LeZion ( he, רִאשׁוֹן לְצִיּוֹן , ''lit.'' First to Zion, Arabic: راشون لتسيون) is a city in Israel, located along the central Israeli coastal plain south of Tel Aviv. It is part of the Gush Dan metropolitan ar ...
and the urban centre of Metro Tel Aviv.
Rehovot also has access to the East-West Motorway 431, connecting the city to Modi'in as well as to Jerusalem on the East.
Route 412 (Weizmann Street) is a regional road that goes through the city centre in a Northwest-Southeast Direction, and connects it to neighbouring Ness Ziona.
Twin towns – sister cities
Rehovot is twinned
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with:
* Albuquerque, United States
* Bistrița, Romania
* Grenoble, France
* Heidelberg, Germany
* Paraná, Argentina
* Rochester
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, United States
* Valjevo, Serbia
Gallery
File:A Plan of Rehovot.jpg, Map of Rehovot in 1897
File:El Ramle 1945.jpg, Rehovot 1945 1:250,000
File:Rehovot 1948.jpg, Rehovot 1948 1:20,000
File:Israel_Hiking_Map_מגדל_קופלר.jpeg, Particle accelerator at the Weizmann Institute of Science
File:RehovotCamps Ariovitch.jpg, Rehovot campus 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 ...
File:Hebrew University Faculty of Agriculture in Rehovot.jpg, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment (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 ...
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File:Rehovot librejo.jpg, Rehovot Library
File:PikiWiki_Israel_13835_Yad_Labanim_House_in_Rehovot.JPG, Beit Yad LeBanim in Rehovot
File:PikiWiki Israel 8225 old vinery in rehovot.jpg, Rehovot's old winery
File:מכון איילון - אתרי מורשת במרכז הארץ 2015 - רחובות (1).JPG, The Ayalon Institute
The Ayalon Institute ( he, מכון איילון, Makhon Ayalon) was an underground ammunition factory, located on Kibbutz Hill in Rehovot, Israel, disguised as a kibbutz that ran a laundry service. The factory was established in 1945 and manufact ...
in Rehovot
File:Yemenite Jewish Heritage Center.jpg, Yemenite-Jewish
Yemenite Jews or Yemeni Jews or Teimanim (from ''Yehudei Teman''; ar, اليهود اليمنيون) are those Jews who live, or once lived, in Yemen, and their descendants maintaining their customs. Between June 1949 and September 1950, t ...
Heritage Center in Rehovot
File:PikiWiki Israel 13811 Gate of Minkov orchard in Rehovot.JPG, Gate to the Minkov Orchard in Rehovot
Notable people
*Nili Abramski
Nili Abramski (born 14 January 1970, Rehovot, Israel) is an Israeli long-distance runner.
Career highlights
;Marathons
:2004 - Athens, 42nd at 2004 Summer Olympics
:2005 - Helsinki, 49th at World Championships
:2006 - Göteborg, 22nd at Europea ...
, professional long-distance runner
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Within e ...
* Dan Almagor, playwright
* Aki Avni, actor, born in Rehovot
* Shawn Dawson (born 1993), Israeli basketball player
*Aryeh Frimer
Aryeh Abraham Frimer (Hebrew: אריה אברהם פרימר) (born November 24, 1946) is an American-Israeli Active Oxygen Chemist and specialist on women and Jewish law.
Biography
Aryeh Abraham Frimer was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Unit ...
, Bar-Ilan University chemist and rabbi
* Shlomo Glickstein, professional tennis player, born in Rehovot
*Oscar Gloukh
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, professional football player
* Gidi Gov, singer
* Michal Hein (born 1968), Olympic windsurfer
* Tzipi Hotovely, Member of Knesset for Likud
* Eres Holz, composer
*Aharon Isser
Aharon Isser (July 13, 1958 – April 9, 1995) was a leading Israeli aeronautical engineer. He contributed much to the modeling of aerodynamic effects on helicopter airfoils and on the flight dynamics of missile systems. Conducting research at ...
, aeronautical engineer
*Roi Kahat
Roi Kehat (or Roei Kaat, he, רועי קהת; born 12 May 1992) is an Israeli footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Ironi Kiryat Shmona.
Club career Maccabi Tel Aviv
Kahat began his career in the youth system of Maccabi Tel Aviv. ...
, professional footballer
* Ephraim Katzir, biophysicist and fourth President of The State of 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 ...
* Olga Kirsch, South African and Israeli poet
* Yannets Levi, writer
* Nir Levine, professional footballer, director of football youth team on Maccabi Tel Aviv
* Shlomit Malka, model
* Rahamim Malul, Mayor of Rehovot
* Arnon Milchan, Hollywood film producer
* Matan Naor, professional basketball player
*Talia Rahimi
Talia Rahimi (Hebrew: טליה רחימי; born 1978) is an Israeli author, poet, teacher and linguist.
Biography
Talia Rahimi was born in Rehovot. Her dream of writing began, in her words, when she was in third or fourth grade, when she wrote ...
, author
*Shmuel Rechtman
Shmuel Rechtman ( he, שמואל רכטמן, born 1924, died 23 July 1988) was an Israeli politician who served as mayor of Rehovot from 1970 until 1979, and as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1977 and 1979.
Biography
Born in Rehovot du ...
, Mayor of Rehovot from 1970–1979, born in Rehovot
*Sergy Richter
Sergey Rikhter ( he, סרגיי ריכטר; russian: Серге́й Рихтер; born 23 April 1989) is a USSR-born Israeli Olympic sport shooter.
He shares the junior world record in the 10 metre air rifle, and was the 2009 ISSF World Cup ch ...
(born 1989), Olympic sport shooter and world junior record holder
*Danny Robas
Danny Robas ( he, דני רובס; born December 24, 1957) is an Israeli pop-rock singer and songwriter.
Daniel (Danny) Robas was born in 1957 in Kibbutz Shoval, and grew up in Rehovot. He completed his military service in the artillery corps ...
, singer
*Zdenka Samish
Zdenka Samish ( he, זדנקה סמיש, also spelled Samisch) (March 13, 1904 – March 8, 2008) was a Czech-Israeli food technology researcher. One of the first agricultural researchers in Mandatory Palestine and then Israel, she studied method ...
, Czech-Israel food technology
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Early scientific research into food technology concentrated on food preservation. Nic ...
researcher, director of the Department of Food Technology at the Agricultural Research Station (Volcani Center)
* Yossi Sarid (1940–2015), politician and news commentator
* Eliezer Sherbatov (born 1991), Canadian-Israeli ice hockey player
*Asaf Sirkis
Asaf Sirkis (born 1969) is an Israeli jazz drummer, composer and educator.
Early life
Sirkis spent his teens and early twenties in Rehovot, Israel where he began drum lessons aged 12. His early musical influences were The Beatles, The Police, Ye ...
(born 1969), jazz drummer, composer and educator
* Haim Steinbach (born 1944), artist
* David Tal, four-time member of Knesset and member of the Kadima party
* Israel Tal, an 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 ...
general, designer of Israel's Merkava tank
*Benjamin Elazari Volcani
Benjamin Elazari Volcani (Hebrew: בנימין אלעזרי-וולקני, born 4 January 1915, died 1 February 1999) was an Israeli microbiologist who discovered life in the Dead Sea and pioneered biological silicon research at Scripps Institutio ...
, microbiologist
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* Amir Weintraub, professional tennis player
* Chaim Weizmann, first President of the State of Israel
* Raz Yirmiya (born 1956), behavioral neuroscientist
*S. Yizhar
Yizhar Smilansky (, 27 September 1916 – 21 August 2006), known by his pen name S. Yizhar (), was an Israeli writer and politician. Widely regarded as one of the preeminent figures in Israeli literature, he was awarded the Israel Prize in 1959 ...
(1916–2006), writer
* Ada Yonath, crystallographer at the Weizmann Institute of Science and first Israeli woman Nobel Prize winner
See also
* Kaplan Medical Center
References
External links
City council website
at the Jewish Virtual Library
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""Th ...
English language guide to Rehovot
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