Sha'ar Menashe ( he, שַׁעַר מְנַשֶּׁה, ''lit.'' Menashe Gate) is a psychiatric medical centre in northern

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 ...

. Located near

Pardes Hanna-Karkur Pardes Hanna-Karkur ( he, פַּרְדֵּס חַנָּה-כַּרְכּוּר) is a town in the Haifa District of Israel. In it had a population of . History An Arab village named Karkur had stood at this location by the time the Palestine ...

with an area of 740

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, it falls under the jurisdiction of

Menashe Regional Council The Menashe Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית מנשה, ''Mo'atza Azorit Menasheh'') is a regional council near the city of Hadera, on Israel's north-central coastal plain in the southern Haifa District. It is named after the tribe of ...

. In it had a population of . It is the location of Sha'ar Menashe psychiatric hospital.

History

In the past after 1949 there was here a camp for first absorption of immigrants from Yemen and Iraq and a village for elderly people. In 2007 the hospital had in treatment 1,100 patients and was the largest psychiatric institution in Israel.

References

External links

Official website
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