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.

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

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

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.

; 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.

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

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 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.

This governing body was declared a local council in 1921, and Petah Tikva became a city in 1937.

The next day Jewish ( Irgun ) gunmen shot and killed two Arab workers sleeping in a hut near Petah Tikva in a revenge attack, and the funeral for Khazan in Tel Aviv on 17 April became a turbulent nationalist event during which Jewish rioters beat Arab children and destroyed property.

on August 25, 2007 Nimni Scored his last goal for the Israeli Premier league on the second fixture versus Maccabi Petah Tikva and the became the third all time scorer.

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

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

* Ben Gurion High School, a high school in Petah Tikva, Israel

Numerous high-tech companies and start-ups have moved into the industrial zones of Petah Tikva, which now house the Israeli headquarters for the Oracle Corporation, IBM, Intel, Alcatel-Lucent, ECI Telecom, and GlaxoSmithKline Pharmecuticals.

Over time, the extensive citrus groves that once ringed Petah Tikva have disappeared as real-estate developers acquired the land for construction projects.

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

As well as general hi-tech firms, Petah Tikva has developed a position as a base for many communications firms.

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 divided into 33 neighborhoods for municipal purposes:

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

Memorial for victims of the 1921 Jaffa riots, Petah Tikva

Fighting went on for several days and spread to nearby Rehovot, Kfar Sava, Petah Tikva, and Hadera.

In June 1948, when the road to Jerusalem was opened, they were moved to Petah Tikva for two months.

Amotz Zahavi () ( born 1928 in Petah Tikva ) is an Israeli evolutionary biologist, a Professor Emeritus at the Zoology Department of Tel Aviv University, and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel ( known as the " SPNI ").

On 20 May 1947 they blew up a coffee house in Fajja, specifically in retaliation for the murder of two Jews in nearby Petah Tikva.

Born in Petah Tikva, he completed his studies at Tel Aviv University, writing his Ph. D. thesis on The Izbet Sartah excavations, for which he was also the Field Director.

Villars has played for the Ebusua Dwarfs, Trabzonspor, Bucheon SK and Maccabi Petah Tikva FC.

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.

Yisrael Beiteinu runs for local elections under the name of the city that they run in, e. g. Petah Tikva Beiteinu (" Petah Tikva Our Home ").

* Avi Ivgi, an Israeli football player for Maccabi Petah Tikvah FC

A later plan called for a light railway from Jaffa to the nearby settlements of Rishon LeZion, Petah Tikva and Wilhelma.

In the cup final Hapoel were leading Hapoel Petah Tikva 1 – 0, but the match was abandoned on 89 minutes when a Petah Tikva player refused to leave the pitch after being sent off for insulting the referee.