# Petach Tikva **Variant spelling of [[Petah Tikva]].** This is the same city — the Central-District Israeli town founded in 1878, known as *Em HaMoshavot* ("Mother of the Moshavot"). Records in the vault use both romanizations of פתח תקווה. See [[Petah Tikva]] for the full note (history, coordinates, sources). <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Hebrew</td><td dir="rtl">פתח תקווה</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Petah Tikva / Petach Tikva (Hebrew)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Central District, Israel</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>32°05′N 34°53′E</td></tr> </table> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Tzila Feinstein (b.1912)]] | Born 1912 | | [[Mordechai Feinstein (b.1894)]] | Died 01/20/1978 | | [[Elad Shimon Weisz (b.2001)]] | Born 08/22/2001 | | [[Egele Raab (b.1927)]] | Died 09/04/2001 | | [[Bracha Katz (b.1939)]] | Died 08/24/2004 |