Petah Tikva's jurisdiction covers 35, 868 dunams (~ 35. 9 km < sup > 2 </ sup > or 15 sq mi ).

Petach Tikva's emblem appears on a postage stamp designed by Yitzhak Goldenhirsch, a founding member of Petah Tikva.

Petah Tikva's history of government goes back to 1880, when the pioneers elected a council of seven members to run the new colony.

An attempt at the Guinness record for the world's largest picnic, sponsored by Nickelodeon in Petah Tikva, Israel.

The largest data center in Israel, operated by the company TripleC, is also located in Petah Tikva.

Furthermore, the Israeli Teva company, the world's largest generic drug manufacturer is headquartered in Petah Tikva, whilst one of Israel's leading food processing corporations, Osem opened in Petah Tikva in 1976 and has since been joined by the company's administrative offices, distribution center and sauce factory.

In 2008 Mekorot completed construction of an advanced filtration plant, the fourth largest in the world, to further cleanse the water before entering the 108 " Pipeline which transports it 86 km to the " Yarkon-Negev " system near the city of Rosh HaAyin to the east of Tel Aviv and Petah Tikva.

The largest attendance was in Israel, with 10, 000 attendees at the Yad Eliyahu Arena in Tel Aviv on 21 November 1982 ( 5 Kislev 5743 ), 10, 000 at Jerusalem's International Convention Center, thousands in Bnei Brak at Wagschal Hall, and hundreds in Haifa, Petah Tikva, and, for the first time, in Ashdod.

* A suicide bombing in the bus station at Geha Junction in Petah Tikva on 25 December 2003 which killed 4 Israelis.

During the Second Intifada, Petah Tikva suffered three terrorist attacks: On May 27, 2002, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a small cafe outside a shopping mall, leaving two dead, including a baby ; on December 25, 2003, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a bus stop near the Geha bridge, killing 4 civilians, and on February 5, 2006, a Palestinian got into a shuttle taxi, pulled out a knife, and began stabbing passengers killing two of them, but a worker from a nearby factory hit him with a log, subduing him.

In November 1947, an Egged bus which left Netanya for Jerusalem was attacked in Petah Tikva.

; 1878: Petah Tikva is founded by Jerusalem Jews, but abandoned after difficulties.

Petah Tikva (,, " Opening of Hope ") known as Em HaMoshavot (" Mother of the Moshavot "), is a city in the Center District of Israel, east of Tel Aviv.

Nowadays, with a population of over two hundred thousand inhabitants Petah Tikva is the third most populous city in the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area (" Gush Dan ").

Petah Tikva is the second-largest industrial sector in Israel after the northern city of Haifa.

A quarry for building stone is located east of Petah Tikva.

Arutz Sheva, the right wing Religious Zionist Israeli media network operates an internet radio studio in Petah Tikva, where Arutz Sheva internet TV is located as well as the printing press for its B ' Sheva newspaper.

Petah Tikva is served by a large number of buses.

A rapid transit / light rail system is in the works which will connect Petah Tikva to Bnei Brak, Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv and Bat Yam.

There are eight taxi fleets based in Petah Tikva, and the city is bordered by three of the major vehicle arteries in Israel: Geha Highway ( Highway 4 ) on the west, the Trans-Samaria Highway ( Highway 5 ) on the north, and the Trans-Israel Highway ( Highway 6 ) on the east.

Petah Tikva is home to 300 educational institutions from kindergarten through high school, catering to the secular, religious and Haredi populations.

The community of Petah Tikva is served by 300 synagogues, including the 120-year old Great Synagogue, eight mikvaot ( ritual baths ) and two major Haredi yeshivot, Lomzhe Yeshiva and Or-Yisrael ( founded by the Chazon Ish, Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz ).

Yeshivat Hesder Petah Tikva, a modern-orthodox Hesder Yeshiva affiliated with the Religious Zionist movement, directed by Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, is also located in Petah Tikva.

Petah Tikva is divided into 33 neighborhoods for municipal purposes:

Petah Tikva is twinned with:

* In Israel, there is a similar gag about Petah Tikva.

In Petah Tikva there is a high school named after Ahad Ha ' am Ahad Ha ' am High School.

Osem's main factory is now located on Jabotinsky road in Petah Tikva, just next to Bnei Brak.

Dr. Yosef " Yossi " Beilin (, born in Petah Tikva on 12 June 1948 ) is a left-wing Israeli politician and a former Knesset member, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister and Justice Minister, representing both the Labor Party and Meretz-Yachad, of which he served as chairman between 2003 and 2006.

Born in Petah Tikva, Beilin is married with two children, and currently lives in Tel Aviv.

The first modern Jewish settlement in Palestine, Petah Tikva, was founded in 1878, followed by Rishon LeZion ( 1882 ).

* 27 May: A woman and her infant granddaughter, aged 14 months, of Petah Tikva were killed when a suicide bomber detonated himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall.

Israel has seen neo-Nazi activity, notably in the case of Patrol 35, a cell in Petah Tikva made up of eight teenage immigrants from the former Soviet Union who had been attacking foreign workers and homosexuals, and vandalizing synagogues with Nazi images.

These rabbis include: Shlomo Goren ( former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel ); Chaim David Halevi ( former Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv and Yaffo ); Dov Lior ( Rabbi of Kiryat Arba ); Yosef Elboim ; Yisrael Ariel ; She ' ar Yashuv Cohen ( Chief Rabbi of Haifa ); Yuval Sherlo ( rosh yeshiva of the hesder yeshiva of Petah Tikva ); Meir Kahane.

Tel Afek lies east of Petah Tikva and west of Kafr Qasim and Rosh HaAyin, near the source of the Yarkon River.

In 2008 ten K6 telephone boxes were imported from the United Kingdom to the Israeli city of Petah Tikva and installed on its main street, Haim Ozer.

In this poem Imber puts into words his thoughts and feelings in the wake of the establishment of Petah Tikva, one of the first Jewish settlements in Ottoman Palestine.

Petah Tikva 1912

Petah Tikva was founded in 1878 by religious pioneers from Europe, who were led by Yehoshua Stampfer, Moshe Shmuel Raab, Yoel Moshe Salomon, Zerach Barnett, and David Gutmann, as well as Lithuanian Rabbi Aryeh Leib Frumkin who built the first house there.

However, Abdülhamid II cancelled the purchase and forbade them from settling there, but they retained the name Petah Tikva as a symbol of their aspirations.

During the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I, Petah Tikva served as a refugee town for residents of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, following their exile by the Ottoman authorities due to their refusal to serve the Ottoman army to fight the invading British forces.

Petah Tikva became the school for thousands of pioneer workers, who studied the craft of farming there before they ventured out to establish dozens of settlements in all parts of the country.

Petah Tikva was also the birthplace of the Labor Zionist Movement, inspired and encouraged by the writings of A. D. Gordon who lived in the town.

The first recorded Arab attack on Jews in what would become Israel took place in Petah Tikva in 1886.

Petah Tikva was also the scene of Arab rioting in May 1921, which left four Jews dead.

In the 1930s, the pioneering founders of Kibbutz Yavneh from the Religious Zionist movement immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine, settling near Petah Tikva on land purchased by a Jewish-owned German company.

Refining the agricultural skills they learned in Germany, these pioneers began in 1941 to build their kibbutz in its intended location in the south of Israel, operating from Petah Tikva as a base.

In the early 1920s, industry began to develop in the Petah Tikva region.

In 1921, Petah Tikva was given the status of a local council by the British authorities, and in 1937 it was recognized as a city.

After the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, several adjoining villages – Amishav and Ein Ganim to the east ( named after the biblical village ( Joshua 15: 34 )), Kiryat Matalon to the west, towards Bnei Brak, Kfar Ganim and Mahaneh Yehuda to the south and Kfar Avraham on the north – were merged into the municipal boundaries of Petah Tikva, giving it a significant population boost to 22, 000.