# Petah Tikva <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Hebrew</td><td dir="rtl">פתח תקווה</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Petah Tikva (Hebrew, lit. "Opening of Hope"); Em HaMoshavot ("Mother of the Moshavot")</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> ## Overview Petah Tikva is a city in the Central District of Israel, about 10 km east of Tel Aviv. Founded in 1878 by European Jewish immigrants — among them Yehoshua Stampfer, Yoel Moshe Salomon, and David Meir Gutmann — it was the first modern Jewish agricultural settlement in Ottoman Palestine, earning the title Em HaMoshavot, "Mother of the Moshavot." It has since grown into a major urban and industrial center. (Note: also recorded in the vault under the variant spelling [[Petach Tikva]].) <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Petah Tikva; Britannica — Petah Tiqwa; World Jewish Congress.</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Avraham Binder (b.1906)]] | Died 1951 | | [[Olga Schwan (b.1895)]] | Died 01/31/1975 | | [[Shmuel Avraham Szargel (b.1907)]] | Died 03/02/1980 | | [[Tziporah Veksler (b.1896)]] | Died 12/22/1981 | | [[Kalman Slomovitz (b.1904)]] | Died 11/02/1990 | | [[Hanah Hershcovitz (b.1910)]] | Died 11/14/1991 | | [[Hinda Teper (b.1907)]] | Died 03/29/1993 | | [[Gittel Sarah Bernstein (b.1909)]] | Died 2002 | | [[Tzvi Dov Schlussel (b.1926)]] | Died 11/05/2003 |