Givatayim

Giv'atayim (, lit. "twa hills") is a ceety in Israel east o Tel Aviv. It is pairt o the metropolitan aurie kent as Gush Dan. Givatayim wis established in 1922 bi pioneers o the Seicont Aliyah. In  it haed a population o .

The name o the ceety comes frae the "twa hills" on which it wis established: Borochov Hill an Kozlovsky Hill.  Kozlovsky is the heichest hill in the Gush Dan region at 85 meters abuin sea level.  The ceety expandit in the 1930s so that the day it is actually situatit on 3 hills, Borochov, Kozlovsky an Rambam Hill.

History
Archaeological ruins date settlement on the site o wha is nou Giv'atayim back tae the Calcolithic period. The modren toun wis foondit on Aprile 2, 1922 bi a group o 22 Seicont Aliyah pioneers led bi David Schneiderman. The group purchased 300 dunams (75 acres) o land on the ootskirts o Tel Aviv that became the Borochov neighborhuid, the first wirkers' neighborhuid in the country. It wis named for Dov Ber Borochov, foonder o the Poalei Zion wirkers' pairty. Later, anither 70 families joined the group, receivin smawer plots. The land wis purchased wi their private savins, but wis voluntarily transferred tae the Jewish Naitional Fund, which organized Jewish settlement at the time, in keepin wi the pioneers' socialist beliefs.

Giv'atayim is creditit for a number o breakthroughs in the early Jewish settlement movement, includin establishin the first cooperative grocery store (Tzarkhaniya)  that still functioned in the same location intae the 1980s. 

Ower time, mair neighborhuids developed: Sheinkin (1936), Givat Rambam (1933), Kiryat Yosef (1934) an Arlozorov (1936). Aw these neighborhuids wur merged tae form a local cooncil in August 1942. Giv'atayim wis declared a ceety in 1959.

Mayors
 Shimon Ben-Zvi (1941–1965)
 Kuba Kraizman (1965–1978)
 Yizhak Yaron (1978–1993)
 Efi (Ephraim) Schtenzler (1993–2006)
 Iris Avram, replaced the previous mayor due tae his early resignation (November 9, 2006–Januar 16, 2007)
 Reuven Ben-Shahar (2007–2013)
 Ran Kunik (2013–)

Internaitional relations

Twin towns — Sister ceeties
Giv'atayim is twinned with:
 Sfantu Gheorghe, Romanie
 Arad, Romanie
 Chattanooga, Tennessee
 Harbin, Cheenae
 Vác, Hungary

See an aa
al-Khayriyya

References

Freemit airtins
Offeecial wabsteid 

Category:Populatit places established in 1922
Category:Giv'atayim