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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 06/06/2026 13:18:00

Founded in 1878, Petah Tikva holds a special place in Zionist history as the first modern Jewish agricultural settlement in Ottoman Palestine — a founding moment that earned it the Hebrew epithet Em HaMoshavot (Mother of the Moshavot, meaning mother of the agricultural colonies). What began as a pioneering farming village of European Jewish settlers draining malarial swampland has grown into Israel's fourth-largest city and one of the key nodes of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area (Gush Dan), a mod...