The Rishon LeZion HaRishonim Railway Station is located to the south of the city center, in the middle of HaRishonim Interchange, at the intersection of the new Highway 431 and the Rishon LeZion – Ness Ziona road.

Ness Ziona,

Ness Ziona (, Nes Tziyona ) is a city in central Israel founded in 1883.

Ness Ziona, 1934

Ness Ziona was first known as Nahalat Reuben ( lit.

He gathered a group of people on the Hill of Love and unfurled a blue and white flag emblazoned with the words Ness Ziona (" Banner to Zion ") written in gold.

Ness Ziona was attacked by Arab forces in the 1936 – 39 Arab Revolt, and the 1948 Arab – Israeli War.

The outlying villages of Kfar Aharon and Tirat Shalom ( now part of Ness Ziona ) frequently exchanged fire with the Arab villages al-Qubayba and Zarnuqa ( now western Rehovot ).

Much of the territory abandoned by the fleeing Arab residents of nearby villages was added to Ness Ziona, increasing its size from 8 km² to about 15. 3 km² immediately after the war.

Ness Ziona municipality

Ness Ziona Great Synagogue

Ness Ziona is located on the Israeli coastal plain approximately 10 km inland of the Mediterranean Sea, to the south of Tel Aviv.

Ness Ziona is composed of a central core and villages that came under its municipal jurisdiction over time.

Ness Ziona is home to the Israel Institute for Biological Research ( IIBR ), a chemical and biological research institute with 350 employees, and Zenith Solar, a solar energy company.

Ness Ziona Stadium

The city has been represented in the top division of Israeli football by two different clubs ; Maccabi Ness Ziona competed in the top flight in the first post-independence season.

A new club, Sektzia Ness Ziona was formed in 1956 and reached the top flight in 1966.

After folding, they reformed as Ironi Ness Ziona in 2001, and since then have reverted to their former name and reached Liga Leumit, the second tier.

The club plays at the Ness Ziona Stadium, which has also hosted Israel's U-19 team.

Ness Ziona has two main roads – Highway 42 to the west, and Road 412 ( Weizmann Street ), which goes through the city center and connects to Rishon LeZion and Rehovot.

The Ness Ziona Central Bus Station is located on Weizmann Street, although as of 2008 it is operational only for buses heading north, while the platform for buses heading south was moved across the street.

Founders ' house museum, Ness Ziona

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* 1934 – The " Surgeon's Photograph ", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail ( in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax ).

The majority of mainstream criticism of cryptozoology is thus directed towards the search for megafauna cryptids such as Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness Monster, which appear often in popular culture, but for which there is little or no scientific support.

Whether or not this incident is true, Adomnan's text specifically states that the monster was swimming in the River Ness-the river flowing from the loch-rather than in Loch Ness itself.

The Loch Ness Monster () is a cryptid that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.

This picture is the first known image allegedly taken of the Loch Ness Monster.

Alastair Boyd, one of the researchers who uncovered the hoax, argues that the Loch Ness Monster is real, and that although the famous photo was hoaxed, that does not mean that all the photos, eyewitness reports, and footage of the monster were as well.

However, Roland Watson, a cryptozoologist and Loch Ness Monster researcher, has criticized this analysis, stating that the object in the image is very unlikely to be a bloom of algae and zooplankton, since algae needs sunlight to grow, and the waters of Loch Ness are very dark, and nearly devoid of sunlight, 75 feet down.

A subsequent investigation by Loch Ness researcher, Steve Feltham, suggests that the object in the water is in fact a fibreglass hump used previously in a National Geographic documentary which Edwards had participated in.

On 2 May 2001, two conger eels were found on the shore of the loch ; as conger eels are saltwater animals and Loch Ness is freshwater, it is believed that they were put there to be seen as " Mini-Nessies ".

( Foyers is on Loch Ness.

Loch Ness, because of its long, straight shape, is subject to some unusual ripples affecting its surface.

The Loch Ness is located along the Great Glen Fault, and this could be a description of an earthquake.

* Plesiosaurs were probably cold-blooded reptiles requiring warm tropical waters, while the average temperature of Loch Ness is only about.

* In October 2006, the New Scientist headlined an article " Why the Loch Ness Monster is no plesiosaur " because Leslie Noè of the Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge reported, " The osteology of the neck makes it absolutely certain that the plesiosaur could not lift its head up swan-like out of the water ".

Perhaps the most famous Scottish loch is Loch Ness, although there are other large examples such as Loch Awe, Loch Lomond and Loch Tay.

Mokèlé-mbèmbé, meaning " one who stops the flow of rivers " in the Lingala language is a legendary water-dwelling creature of Congo River basin folklore, sometimes described as living creature, sometimes as a spirit, and loosely analogous to the Loch Ness Monster in Western culture.

Shetland is a National Scenic Area, although unusually this single designated area is made up of a number of discrete locations: Fair Isle, Foula, South West Mainland ( including the Scalloway Islands ), Muckle Roe, Esha Ness, Fethaland and Herma Ness.