Pardes Hanna-Karkur

Coordinates: 32°28′16″N 34°58′03″E / 32.47111°N 34.96750°E / 32.47111; 34.96750
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Pardes Hanna-Karkur
פַּרְדֵּס חַנָּה-כַּרְכּוּר‎
Local council
Hebrew transcription(s)
 • ISO 259Pardes Ḥanna - Karkur
Pardes Hanna-Karkur is located in Haifa region of Israel
Pardes Hanna-Karkur
Pardes Hanna-Karkur
Pardes Hanna-Karkur is located in Israel
Pardes Hanna-Karkur
Pardes Hanna-Karkur
Coordinates: 32°28′16″N 34°58′03″E / 32.47111°N 34.96750°E / 32.47111; 34.96750
Country Israel
District Haifa
Founded1969
Government
 • Head of MunicipalityHagar Perry Yagur
Area
 • Total22,596 dunams (22.596 km2 or 8.724 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)[1]
 • Total44,840
 • Density2,000/km2 (5,100/sq mi)

Pardes Hanna-Karkur (Hebrew: פַּרְדֵּס חַנָּה-כַּרְכּוּר) is a town in the Haifa District of Israel. In 2022 it had a population of 44,840.[1] It has been characterized as having a hipster culture.[2]

History

An Arab village named Karkur had stood at this location by the time the Palestine Exploration Fund had compiled its first maps in 1878.[3]

In 1913, 15 square kilometers of land was purchased by the Hachsharat Hayishuv society from Arabs in

Gan Hashomron and Kibbutz Ein Shemer. Until actual settlement began, the area was guarded by Hashomer, which planted eucalyptus trees to circumvent a Turkish law that allowed the Ottomans to expropriate lands if they were not cultivated for three years.[4]

The early settlements did not fare well. Shlezinger went bankrupt and sold his land to the Jewish National Fund. The London Ahuza society hoped to settle English Jews on the land, but succeeded only partially. Eventually the Jewish National Fund and the London Ahuza society joined forces to establish Karkur.[4]

According to a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Karkur had a population of 38 inhabitants, consisting of 35 Jews and 3 Muslims.[5]

Pardes Hanna was founded in 1929 by

Palestine Jewish Colonisation Association
, just east of Karkur.

By 1931, the census in Karkur reported 189 houses, with an overwhelming Muslim majority (282 Jews and 564 Muslims); and 282 people lived in Pardes Hanna, all Jews.[6] In 1945, the population of Karkur village recorded as 2380, with Karkur itself having 900 people, all Jews; Pardes Hanna village showed 2,300 Jews and 670 Muslims, with 1,860 people (all Jews) in Pardes Hanna itself.[7]

During

RAF Ein Shemer. According to Marom, "Jewish workers socialised with British troops at nearby coffeehouses like Teacher’s Garden Café and other public institutions in Karkur. Jewish residents of Karkur nicknamed their settlement a ‘colony of love’ because many English-speaking women fraternised with the British soldiers, under the auspices of the local Jewish Hospitality Committee."[8]

On 6 April 1948, the Irgun raided the British Army camp at Pardes Hanna, killing seven British soldiers and stealing a large quantity of weapons.[9]

After Israeli independence, Neveh Efraim was founded by Jewish immigrants from Yemen and Neve Oved was established by the Labor movement.[4] In addition, many Jews from Mumbai, India, including Jews from Bahrain who fled to Israel via Mumbai, settled there.

In the 1950s, the villages Tel Shalom and Neve Efraim were merged with Pardes Hanna. Pardes Hanna and Karkur merged in 1969.

The meaning of the name Pardes Hanna in Hebrew is "Hannah's [Citrus] Orchard". The place is named after

Binyamina (1922), Ashdot Ya'akov (1924), Shadmot Dvora (1924) and Sde Eliezer (1950). The reason Pardes Hanna was named for Hanna Primrose née de Rothschild in particular is uncertain but she appears to have contributed to Jewish causes; the Rothschild archive site attests: "In the Jewish community [in Britain] she was a generous, though often anonymous benefactor".[13]

  • Kerkur 1878 1:63,360
    Kerkur 1878 1:63,360
  • Karkur 1928
    Karkur 1928
  • Pardes Hanna (Rabye) and Kerkur 1932 1:20,000
    Pardes Hanna (Rabye) and Kerkur 1932 1:20,000
  • Great synagogue of Pardes Hanna, established in 1936
    Great synagogue of Pardes Hanna, established in 1936
  • Pardes Hanna, 1938
    Pardes Hanna, 1938
  • Pardes Hanna water tower 1930
    Pardes Hanna water tower 1930
  • Pardes Hanna and Karkur 1945 1:250,000
    Pardes Hanna and Karkur 1945 1:250,000
  • Beit Harishonim, Pardes Hanna
    Beit Harishonim, Pardes Hanna
  • Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery, née de Rothschild, after whom Pardes Hanna is named; painted by Frederic Leighton
    Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery, née de Rothschild, after whom Pardes Hanna is named; painted by Frederic Leighton

Demographics

According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, the population of Pardes Hanna-Karkur was 44,840 at end of 2022. The land area is 22,596 dunams (~22.6 km2 [8.7 sq mi]). Pardes-Hanna is governed by the largest local council in Israel by population size (among towns without municipal status).

Education

The oldest and largest school in Pardes Hanna-Karkur is the

Ya'akov Ne'eman; journalists Haim Zisowitz, Yair Sheleg and Adam Baruch; and Labor Party Secretary-General Eitan Cabel.[15] A religious high school for girls, Elisheva, is also located in Pardes Hanna.[4]

Transportation

Pardes Hanna-Karkur is served by the

Caesarea-Pardes Hanna Railway Station and by buses run by Egged and Kavim. It is connected to Highway 4 by Road 651, to Highway 65 by Roads 650, 652 and 6502, and to Highway 70
by Road 652.

Notable residents

See also

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pardes Hanna-Karkur.
  1. ^ a b "Regional Statistics". Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
  2. ^ Constantinoiu, Marina (29 September 2022). "A slice of life of the hipster Israeli town Pardes Hanna". ISRAEL21c. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  3. S2CID 236222143
    .
  4. ^ a b c d e Pardes Hanna-Karkur, A General Real Estate Overview
  5. ^ "Palestine Census ( 1922)".
  6. ^ "Census of Palestine 1931. Population of villages, towns and administrative areas". 1932.
  7. ^ http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VillageStatistics1945orig.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  8. ISSN 0729-2473
    .
  9. Yaakov Meridor
    was reported to have been in command of the Irgun attackers. Those dead included Lieut-Colonel G.L. Hildebrand, Royal Artillery
  10. ^ Personal email correspondence between Pardes Hannah Rishonim Museum representative and Wikipedia editor, April 2022| "This [identification of Hanna Primrose as the source of the name given to Pardes Hanna] is information that was provided to the Pardes Hannah Rishonim Museum in the 1980s after a clarification was conducted at that time with the Rothschild family archives in London. Hannah Primrose's picture which hangs in the Rishonim Museum also came from the same source... We are aware that there are those who attribute the name to other women. The claims we receive usually rely on some measure of logic but not on information that has been confirmed."
  11. ^ rishonim.house| Pardes Hanna-Karkur Founders' House Museum
  12. ^ https://www.pardes-hanna-karkur.muni.il/101/ | datum from official site of Pardes Hanna-Karkur Municipality
  13. ^ "Hannah de Rothschild (1851-1890) | Rothschild Family".
  14. ^ "About Pardes Hanna-Karkur". Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
  15. ^ An educator's legacy
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