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Hatikva Quarter (, ''Shkhunat Hatikva'') is a working class

neighbourhood A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...

in southeastern

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History

The quarter was founded in 1935, named for " Mount Hope" ("Har HaTikva" in Hebrew), a farm built in 1853 by Protestant

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and

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Protestants and abandoned. Johann Steinbeck was the grandfather of

John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck ( ; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social percep ...

and abandoned the colony in 1858 after Arab attackers killed his brother and raped his brother's wife and mother-in-law. It was soon repopulated as a working class

Temani Yemenite Jews, also known as Yemeni Jews or Teimanim (from ; ), are a Jewish diaspora group who live, or once lived, in Yemen, and their descendants maintaining their customs. After several waves of persecution, the vast majority of Yemenite J ...

neighborhood. The neighborhood was the site of the on 8 December, 1947, one of the first battles of the 1947-48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, when it was attacked by

Hasan Salama Hasan Salama (also spelled Hassan Salameh; , ; 1913 – 2 June 1948) was a Palestinian Arab nationalist guerrilla leader and commander who led the Palestinian Holy War Army (''Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqaddas'', Arabic: ) in the 1948 Palestine War ...

's forces. It became part of the Tel Aviv municipal area after the

1948 Arab–Israeli War The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. The civil war becam ...

Damage from an Iraqi Scud missile in Beit Dani in Tel Aviv 1991

On 19th January 1991 during the

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a shelter just in front of Beit Dani was directly hit by an Iraqi Scud rocket. Although the shelter was used by the neighbours regularly, just on this day after the alarm the lock malfunctionned. So, because of this empty shelter no one was hurt or killed. To commemorate the escape an iron memorial (named "Angel of peace") with 3 wings was erected in 1992 in front of Beit Dani, inscribed at the bottom with biblical words in Hebrew ("covering with their wings" (

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25:20)).

Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. (, ''Moadon Kaduregel Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv''), commonly referred to as Bnei Yehuda (), is an Israeli football club from the Hatikva Quarter of the city of Tel Aviv. The club is a member of the Liga Leumit. History The ...

football club played at the

Hatikva Neighborhood Stadium The Hatikva Neighborhood Stadium (, ''Itztadion Shkhunat HaTikva'') is a multi-purpose stadium in the Hatikva Quarter of Tel Aviv in Israel. History The stadium was built in 1951, when the former stadium of Bnei Yehuda was built over.

until moving to

Bloomfield Stadium Bloomfield Stadium () is a football stadium in Tel Aviv, Israel, with a capacity of 29,400. It is the home stadium of Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv. The stadium also serves the Israel national football team for some select home matches ...

. The headquarters of the

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is located there. The

Shevah Mofet Shevah Mofet (; ), also transliterated Shevach Moffet, is a junior and high school on HaMasger Street in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was established in 1942 as a vocational school. Since the 1990s, new programs were inaugurated to meet the needs of the Ru ...

school is located on the site of the Steinbeck farm house.Tel Aviv municipality http://tel-aviv.millenium.org.il/NR/exeres/747CE319-2E55-49F6-9DED-1B9C50FF0476,frameless.htm The neighbourhood is also home to the

Yoram Loewenstein Performing Arts Studio Yoram Loewenstein Performing Arts Studio () is an acting school, and a theater located in Hatikva Quarter, a neighbourhood of Tel Aviv in Israel. The vocational school was founded in 1988. History Prior to the establishment of the school in 1988, ...

, where some of Israel's leading actors trained.

Notable residents

Ofra Haza Ofra Haza (; 19 November 1957 – 23 February 2000) was an Israeli singer, songwriter, and actress, commonly known in the Western world as " the Madonna of the East", or "the Israeli Madonna". Her voice has been described as a "tender" mezzo-sop ...

(1957–2000), singer and actress *

Haim Moshe Haim Moshe (, , sometimes Chaim Moshe on recordings), born 20 September 1955 is an Israeli singer whose musical style has crossed over from Yemenite and Mediterranean "ethnic" music to include mainstream Israeli and western pop elements. He ha ...

(born 1955), singer *

Tomer Kapon Tomer Capone (also Kapon, Kappon, or Capon, ; born 15 July, 1985) is an Israeli actor. He has starred in a number of popular Israeli exported television series such as ''Hostages'' (2013–2016), the political thriller television series ''Fauda'' ...

(born 1985), film and television actor * Goel Ratzon (born 1950)

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History

Notable residents

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