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Netanya (nətän`yə), city (1994 pop. 144,900), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea; also spelled Nathania. It is a beach resort and the trade center for agricultural settlements in the region. Diamond cutting and polishing and citrus packing are the chief industries. Netanya, founded in 1929, was named for the U.S. philanthropist Nathan Straus, who contributed funds to educational and social agencies in Palestine. The Jewish Legion Museum in Netanya has exhibits of Jewish units in the British army in World War I. Wingate Institute for Physical Education and Zichron Ya'akov, one of the first modern Jewish settlements (1882) in Palestine and the site of the grave of Baron Edmond de Rothschild, are nearby. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Shapira, previously worked for Shapira Development in Netanya Israel, developers of some of the larger luxury residential towers in the city. Yago, who teaches finance at the Interdisciplinary Center at Herzliya and at Tel Aviv University, was spurred to action after a suicide bomber walked into the Park Hotel in Netanya during Passover in 2002 and detonated a device, killing 29 Israelis. But hopes for peace faded when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel, killing 22. |
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