Giv'at Shmuel
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Giv'at Shmuel (Hebrew: גִּבְעַת שְׁמוּאֵל, Scots: Samuel Brae) is a ceety in the Center Destrict o Israel. It is locatit in the eastren pairt o the Gush Dan metropolitan aurie an is surroondit bi the lairger ceeties Ramat Gan an Bnei Brak tae the Wast, Kiryat Ono tae the Sooth an Petah Tikva tae the East an North. Giv'at Shmuel haes a population o aboot 28,400 fowk (end o 2009).
Giv'at Shmuel
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Hebrew transcription(s) | |
• ISO 259 | Gibˁat Šmuˀel |
Coordinates: 32°4′41.23″N 34°50′51.22″E | |
Destrict | Central |
Foondit | 1944 |
Govrenment | |
• Teep | Ceety (frae 2007) |
• Mayor | Yossi Brodny |
Area | |
• Total | 2.579 km2 (637 acres) |
Population (2009) | |
• Total | 28,400 |
• Density | 11,000/km2 (29,000/sq mi) |
The ceety is named efter the Romanian Zionist leader Samuel Pineles, the foonder an preses o the Zionist Congress in Focsani an the Vice-Preses o the First Zionist Congress in Basel. It haes recently unnergane a major expansion an doubled its population frae 1998 tae 2005. On November 5, 2007, the Israeli Meenister o Interior acceptit a committee recommendation tae chynge the municipal status o Giv'at Shmuel tae 'ceety'.