page_title: Petah Tikva
section_title: Local government
hierarchical_section_title: Petah Tikva / Local government
caption_attribution_description: English: Yehoshua Stampfer, one of the founders of Petah Tikva, Israel. עברית: ממייסדי פתח תקווה, יהושוע שטמפפר
context_page_description: Petah Tikva, also known as Em HaMoshavot, is a city in the Central District of Israel, 10.6 km east of Tel Aviv. It was founded in 1878, mainly by Orthodox Jews of the Old Yishuv, and became a permanent settlement in 1883 with the financial help of Baron Edmond de Rothschild.
  In 2019 the city had a population of 247,956. Its population density is approximately 6,277 inhabitants per square kilometre. Its jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams. Petah Tikva is part of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area.
context_section_description: Petah Tikva's history of government goes back to 1880, when the pioneers elected a council of seven members to run the new colony. From 1880 to 1921, members of the council were David Meir Guttman, Yehoshua Stampfer, Ze'ev Wolf Branda, Abraham Ze'ev Lipkis, Yitzhak Goldenhirsch, Chaim Cohen-Rice, Moshe Gissin, Shlomo Zalman Gissin and
  Akiva Librecht. This governing body was declared a local council in 1921, and Petah Tikva became a city in 1937. Kadima, the political party founded by former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, had its headquarters in Petah Tikva.
caption: Yehoshua Stampfer
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