Yehoshua Stampfer (born 8 June 1852,

Komárno Komárno, ( hu, Komárom, german: Komorn, sr, Коморан, translit=Komoran), colloquially also called ''Révkomárom, Öregkomárom, Észak-Komárom'' in Hungarian; is a town in Slovakia at the confluence of the Danube and the Váh rivers. ...

– died 4 July 1908; he, יהושע שטַמפּפֶר) was one of the founders of the city of Petah Tikva 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 ...

. He was a member of its first municipal council.

Biography

Yehoshua Stampfer was born in

and raised in

Szombathely Szombathely (; german: Steinamanger, ; see also other alternative names) is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas county in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria. Szombathely lies by t ...

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. Seeing the results of the national success of the Hungarians in 1867, Stampfer longed for a similar independence for his people in

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. When he was 17, he

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to the Land of Israel. He later joined forces with other pioneers and established new Jewish neighborhoods outside the Old City of Jerusalem. Initially he purchased 3.2 km² for Petah Tikva, which began with a few tents. In 1882 there were already 66 people living in Petah Tikva. In 1898 he planted the second orchard in Petah Tikva (after the baron), there he preserved the balady citron that was selected by Rabbi

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. Yoshua's son Shlomo was later the first mayor of Petah Tikva and his son-in-law Pinhas Globman kept on with the orchards of his father, that he managed already in the years of the founderLengthy article by Abarham Jacob Rosenfeld
see page 468,.

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