There is also a street named after him in Rishon LeZion.

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

* 7 May: 15 people killed and 55 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a powerful charge in a game club located on the 3rd floor of a building in Rishon LeZion, causing part of the building to collapse.

* 22 May: Two people ( one of them a teenager ) are killed in suicide bombing in the heart of Rishon LeZion.

* Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 15 and wounds 58 in a billiards and gambling club in Rishon LeZion at approximately local time, while Ariel Sharon is meeting with President Bush in Washington D. C.

* Rishon LeZion, Israel, since 1986.

The text was later revised by the settlers of Rishon LeZion, subsequently undergoing a number of other changes.

A kitesurfer at Rishon LeZion, Israel

; 1882: Rishon LeZion, Rosh Pinna, Zikhron Ya ' aqov are founded.

* Elyakum Ostashinski ( b. 1909 in Petah Tikva ), first mayor of Rishon LeZion

* Israel, five schools termed " gymnasium " located in Tel Aviv, Rishon LeZion, Jerusalem and Haifa.

Rishon LeZion (, lit.

The name Rishon LeZion is derived from a biblical verse: " First to Zion are they, and I shall give herald to Jerusalem " ( Isaiah 41: 27 ) and literally translates as " First to Zion ".

Rishon LeZion was founded on July 31, 1882 by ten Hovevei Zion pioneers from Kharkov, Ukraine ( then the Russian Empire ) headed by Zalman David Levontin.

A stone cenotaph was erected by the people of Rishon LeZion to the memory of the New Zealanders who fell that day, but it has since been destroyed.

The first Hebrew school in the country opened in Rishon LeZion in 1889.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, known as the father of modern Hebrew, was a teacher in Rishon LeZion.

In 1890, Rishon LeZion had a population of 359.

In 1911, 4, 000 dunams of land in Rishon LeZion were planted with grapes and 254 dunams with other fruit orchards.

In 2007, the Rishon LeZion Municipality was awarded the Ministry of Interior Prize for Proper Management.

According to data from the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics as of December 2009, the number of residents in Rishon LeZion is 228, 200.

The two major malls in Rishon LeZion are Rothschild Center in the old downtown center and Gold Mall ( Kenyon HaZahav ) in the New West district.

Rishon LeZion has twenty-three elementary schools, nine middle schools and twelve high schools.

Rishon LeZion holds an annual wine festival.

Rishon Lezion's College of Management has a student population of 10, 000.

The Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion, has participated in music festivals all over the world.

Rishon LeZion has an intracity bus network operated by Egged and Dan.

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.

He is the author of the Hebrew language books Where There Are No Men, and War of Dreams, has a column in both the Ma ' ariv and Makor Rishon daily newspapers, and appears frequently on international TV and radio.

On 26 November 2008, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz informed Olmert that he decided to file an indictment against him in what has come to be known as " Rishon Tours " affair, pending a hearing before Mazuz.

Some hold that Rabbi Yosef Karo's Beit Yosef has the halakhic status of a work of a Rishon, while his later Shulkhan Arukh has the status of a work of an Acharon.

Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar (; born in 1948 ) has been the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel and the Rishon LeZion since his appointment in 2003.

Picard orders the Uxbridges beamed up to the Enterprise, and confronts Kevin with the details he has deduced: Kevin and Rishon's house was destroyed in the attack and Rishon was killed, but Kevin, who is not human, has somehow recreated them both.

Israeli grandmasters such as Boris Alterman play for Rishon.

Hovevei Tzion purchased land from Arabs and other Ottoman subjects and created various settlements such as Yesod Hamaalah, Rosh Pinna, Gedera, Rishon Le ' tzion, Nes Tziona and Rechovot.

* Several Aramaic targums of Esther were produced in the Middle Ages of which two survive-the Targum Rishon (" First Targum ") and Targum Sheni (" Second Targum ") dated c. 500-1000 CE.

Polgár participitated in the FIDE world blitz championship September 5 – 7, 2006 in Rishon Le Zion, Israel.

* July 31 – The Hebrew Moshava of Rishon Le-Zion is founded.

In leap years, it is preceded by a 30-day intercalary month named Adar Aleph ( Aleph being the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet ), Adar Rishon ( First Adar ) or Adar I and it is then itself called Adar Bet ( Bet being the second letter of the Hebrew Alphabet ), Adar Sheni ( Second Adar ) or Adar II.

As an early Rishon, he was a contemporary of the Rashbam and Rabbeinu Tam, and one of the earliest of the Tosafists.

Popper, a former dishonorably-discharged soldier, put on his Israeli army uniform and armed himself with an IMI Galil assault rifle on 20 May 1990 and asked men waiting at a bus stop in the Israeli town of Rishon Lezion for their identity cards.

Rishon was declared a city in 1950.