Ashdod also receives a significant amount of internal migration, [46] especially from the Gush Dan region. Religion[edit] Over 95% of Ashdod's population is Jewish, over 30% of whom are religiously observant. Despite this, the city is generally secular, although most of the non-Jewish population is a result of mixed marriages. About 100 families are affiliated with the Pittsburg Hasidic group, established there in 1969 by Grand Rabbi Avraham Abba Leifer and continued today by his son, Grand Rabbi Mordechai Yissachar Ber Leifer. [47] Ashdod has many synagogues serving different streams of Judaism. The city is also home to the world's largest[48] Karaite community, about five thousand strong. There is also a Scandinavian Seamen Protestant church, established by Norwegian Righteous Among the Nations pastor Per Faye-Hansen.
0%1995129, 800+97. 6%2008204, 300+57. 4%2016221, 591+8. 5% The modern city of Ashdod city was built outside the historic settlement site, on virgin sands. The development followed a main development plan. [17] The planners divided the city into seventeen neighborhoods of ten to fifteen thousand people. Wide avenues between the neighborhoods make traffic flow relatively freely inside the city. Each neighborhood has access to its own commercial center, urban park, and health and education infrastructure. The original plan also called for a business and administrative center, built in the mid-1990s, when the city population grew rapidly more than doubling in ten years. [15] Three industrial zones were placed adjacent to the port in the northern part of the city, taking into account the prevailing southern winds which take air pollution away from the city.
4 km2; 0. 2 sq mi), including 130 dunams of built-up space, with the rest of the area being preserved as a nature reserve. [19][20] In addition, the Port of Ashdod is undergoing a massive expansion program. [21] Geography[edit] The Ashdod-Nitzanim sand dune nature reserve is a 20-kilometer (12-mile) stretch of sand dunes on the southern outskirts of Ashdod. Climate[edit] Ashdod has a Mediterranean climate with hot summers, pleasant spring and fall, and cool, rainy winters.
6% and the ratio of women to men is 1, 046 to 1, 000. The population age distribution was recorded as 19. 7% under the age of 10, 15. 7% from age 10 to 19, 14. 9% from 20 to 29, 19. 1% from 30 to 44, 19. 1% from 45 to 64, and 11. 3% were 65 or older. The population of Ashdod is significantly younger than the Israeli average because of the large number of young couples living in the city. The city is ranked medium-low in socio-economic grading, with a rating of 4 out of 10. 56.
C., which plays in Liga Alef. The city's top basketball team is Maccabi Ashdod. The men squad plays in First League, Israel's First tier league, and the women squad Maccabi Bnot Ashdod plays in top division. Ashdod plays host to many national and international sporting tournaments, including the annual Ashdod International Chess Festival. The city has a cricket team, [62] a rarity in Israel. It is run and organized by citizens of Indian descent. Ashdod's beaches are a venue for water sports, like as windsurfing and Scuba diving.
The Ashdod Marina offers yachting services. Notable athletes from Ashdod include: Vered Borochovsky[63] – 2000 Sydney Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics swimmer. Alon Day – Professional race car driver. Alon Hazan – international soccer player Haim Revivo – international soccer player Twin towns–Sister cities[edit] Ashdod is twinned with Notable people[edit] Ofir Ben Shitrit (born 1995), singer Nir Bitton (born 1991), footballer Alon Day (born 1991), racing driver Igor Olshanetskyi (born 1986), Olympic weightlifter Valery Panov (born 1938), dancer and choreographer Dorit Revelis (born 2001), model Haim Revivo (born 1972), footballer Anna Zak (born 2001), social media star Past[edit] Georgy Adelson-Velsky resided in the city from 1992 until his death in 2014 See also[edit] Ashdod on the Sea, Ashdod's historic twin city, now part of modern Ashdod Minat al-Qal'a, the Early Muslim castle at Ashdod on the Sea Cities of the ancient Near East Depopulated Palestinian locations in Israel Cities in the Book of Joshua References[edit] ^ a b c "Population in the Localities 2019" (XLS).
In an architectural echo of the Louvre, the entrance to the museum is through a glass pyramid. [61] In 2003 the internal spaces of the museum were redesigned by the architects Eyal Weizman, Rafi Segal and Manuel Herz. Sports[edit] Ashdod's football team, F. C. Ironi Ashdod represents the city in the Israeli Premier League. The club is known for its successful football school. It is also home to Hapoel Ashdod F.
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Foundation of modern Ashdod[edit] Isdud (Esdud) in 1870 overlaid with the outline of modern AshdodMaps comparing the location of historical Isdud (Esdud) and Minet el Kuleh, with modern Ashdod, founded in 1956 c. 6km northwest of the ruins of Isdud, The modern city of Ashdod was founded in 1956. On May 1, 1956, then finance minister Levi Eshkol approved the establishment of the city of Ashdod. "Ashdod Company Ltd.
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", a daughter company of City-Builders Company Ltd., was created for that purpose by Oved Ben-Ami and Philip Klutznick. The first settlers, 22 families from Morocco, arrived in November 1956, followed by a small influx of immigrants from Egypt. [9][10] In July 1957, the government granted a 24 square kilometres (9 square miles), approximately 32 kilometres (20 mi) from Tel Aviv, to the Ashdod Company Ltd., for building the modern city of Ashdod. [10] The building of the Eshkol A power station in Ashdod was completed in 1958 and included 3 units: 2 units of 50 megawatt, and one unit of 45 megawatt (with sea water desalination capabilities). The city's development was made possible by the large investment of industrialist Israel Rogosin who opened his main Israeli factory in the city of Ashdod on August 9, 1960.
Ashdod - WikipediaAshdod אַשְׁדּוֹדCity (from 1968)Hebrew transcription(s) • ISO 259ʔašdod FlagAshdodAshdodCoordinates: 31°48′0″N 34°39′0″E / 31. 80000°N 34. 65000°ECoordinates: 31°48′0″N 34°39′0″E / 31. 65000°ECountry IsraelDistrictSouthernFounded1700 BCE (Canaanite settlement)1300 BCE (Philistine rule)147 BCE (Hasmonean rule) 7th century CE (Muslim city)1956 (Israeli city)Government • MayorYehiel LasriArea • Total47, 242 dunams (47.
Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 16 August 2020. ^ Jacobs, D. ; Eber, S. ; Silvani, F. ; Rough Guides (Firm) (1998). Israel and the Palestinian Territories: The Rough Guide. Music rough guide. Rough Guides. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-85828-248-0. Retrieved 2022-12-22. Four kilometres out of town and just west of Route 4, Tel Ashdod was the centre of the village of Isdud - ancient Ashdod - and site of the Philistine port. Get off the bus if you like old mounds, derelict Palestinian homes...
From 1990 to 2001 the city accepted more than 100, 000 new inhabitants, a 150% growth. [15] Five more quarters of the city were completed, and a business district was built. In the 2000s, three more quarters and the marina districts were completed. Ashdod was one of six cities that won the 2012 Education Prize awarded by the Israel Ministry of Education. [16] Urban development[edit] Historical populationYearPop. ±%19614, 600— 197240, 300+776. 1%198365, 700+63.
^ Karṭa (Firm) (1983). Carta's Official Guide to Israel: And Complete Gazetteer to All Sites in the Holy Land. State of Israel, Ministry of Defence Publishing House. p. 81. ISBN 978-965-220-047-1. Tel Ashdod... Ancient tel, 7 km S. of modern Ashdod within abandoned Arab village of Isdud... ^ "Local Authorities in Israel 2005, Publication #1295 – Municipality Profiles – Ashdod" (PDF) (in Hebrew). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-05-29. Retrieved April 14, 2008. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-12-23. Retrieved 2019-05-19. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) ^ "קהילת אשדוד - היהדות הקראית העולמית". www.
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The Sea Mall, a three-story mall near the government offices, has a climbing wall and movie theater. Star Center doubled in size in 2007. [27] Education[edit] In 2013, Ashdod had 500 schools employing 3, 500 teachers. The student population was 55, 000. The city's education budget was NIS 418 million shekels. [16] Lycée français Guivat-Washington, a French international high school, is in Givat Washington, in proximity to Ashdod.
[28] Healthcare[edit] Assuta Ashdod Medical Center, Ashdod's only general hospital, serves the city and the surrounding area. It is a 300-bed hospital, and its "bomb shelter" design with thick concrete walls offers sufficient protection so as to keep operating without having to transfer patients during a time of war. It is also a university hospital affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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