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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 1914 – 1918.

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 Heights ) 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.