A popular tourist resort located on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, part of Greater Tel Aviv.
Bat Yam was founded in 1926 as a suburb of Bait-wa-Gan, which means "Home and Garden" in Hebrew. During the riots of 1929, Bat Yam was attacked by Palestinian fighters from Jaffa and was evacuated by the British authorities. In 1930 the city was re-settled, and in 1936 it was granted the status of Local Council, administrative unit, similar in structure and structure.
In the first years after the establishment of the State of Israel, Bat Yam experienced a period of rapid growth caused by mass immigration, and in In 1958 he received the status of a city. Its further development was at the beginning of the 1980s - the end of the 1990s. and was caused by the second mass immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia. At present, there is a large Arab community in Bat Yam and the overwhelming majority of Vietnamese Israelis or Vietnamese of Israeli origin live.
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How to get there
Bat-Yam is located in 20 minutes drive from the center of Tel-Aviv. The largest in Bat Yam is the transport company Dan, which serves various areas of Tel Aviv and connects Bat Yam with Holon, Rishon Lezion, Ramat Gan, Givataim, Bnei Brak, Tel Hashomer and the Bar University -Ilan.
Another transport company, Egged, connects Bat Yam with the areas of Holon and Rishon Lezion, and also serves Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ramle and Ben Gurion International Airport.
Trains
In 2011, as part of the new Western Line of the Israeli Railways in Bat Yam, two stations were opened - Bat Yam-Yoseftal and Bat Yam-Kommemiyut. In the near future, Bat Yam will be the terminal stop of the Red Line of the Tel Aviv light rail transport system under construction.
Beaches of Bat Yam
Along the famous embankment, which the British they called Riviera, there are modern hotels overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Close to the embankment is the city park, and the coast of Bat Yam extends more than 3 km and is divided into several beaches. One of the best is the Stone Beach, the main feature of which is the breakwater.
For the religious population in Bat Yam, the so-called Separate beach is designed, providing for swimming of men and women on different days of the week.
Entertainment, excursions and attractions Bat Yam
In Bat Yam, every year there are held all kinds of Biennial of urban architecture, and every summer there is an International Festival of Street Theater. Right on the beach is the Exhibition Gallery "Riviera", built on the site of the ruined club. Now the works of masters from all over the world are located here.
Works of contemporary art from Israel and other countries are represented in the Ben-Ari Museum of Contemporary Art, which forms the core of the new cultural complex of Bat Yam - MoBy.
The local museum "The Fisherman's House" presents the works of the famous painter of the European school of the 1930s Issachar -Ber Rybak, and in the house where the famous Jewish poet and playwright Shalom Ash, who wrote in Yiddish, once lived, has a collection of manuscripts, documents, photographs, drawings and objects of Judaica.
For children in Bat Yam, scientific-cognitive Centre Havayeda ", where with the help of the game explain the laws of physics, chemistry, mechanics, optics and other sciences.