  ramat gan ( ) is a city in the tel aviv district of israel, located east of tel aviv. it is home to one of the world's major diamond exchanges, many high-tech industries, and israel's tallest building, the moshe aviv tower. ramat gan was established in 1921 as a moshava, a communal farming settlement. at the end of 2009, the population was 145,000. the mayor of ramat gan is yisrael zinger. ==history==  ramat gan was established by the ir ganim association in 1921 as a satellite town of tel aviv. the first plots of land were purchased between 1914â1918. the settlement was initially a moshava, a zionist agricultural colony that grew wheat, barley and watermelons. the name of the settlement was changed to ramat gan (lit: garden height) in 1923. the settlement continued to operate as a moshava until 1933, although it achieved local council status in 1926. at this time it had 450 residents. in the 1940s, ramat gan became a battleground in the country's language war: a yiddish language printing press in ramat gan was blown up by hebrew-language extremists.pilowsky, a: "yiddish alongside the revival of hebrew public polemics on the status of yiddish in eretz israel, 1907â1929", readings in the sociology of jewish languages, page 123. joshua fishman ed, leiden â e.j. brill, 1985. over the years, the economy shifted from agriculture to commerce and industry. by 1946, the population had grown to 12,000. in 1950, ramat gan was r
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