Rosh HaAyin (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הָעָיִן, lit. head of the eye) is a city in the Center District of Israel. To the west of Rosh HaAyin is the fortress of Antipatris and the source of the Yarkon River. To the southeast is the fortress of Migdal Afek (Migdal Tzedek). At the end of 2007, the population of Rosh HaAyin was 37,900.
Rosh HaAyin was founded in the 1950s near the site of ancient Aphik, on the grounds of a British military camp. Many of the res...
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Rosh HaAyin (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הָעָיִן, lit. head of the eye) is a city in the Center District of Israel. To the west of Rosh HaAyin is the fortress of Antipatris and the source of the Yarkon River. To the southeast is the fortress of Migdal Afek (Migdal Tzedek). At the end of 2007, the population of Rosh HaAyin was 37,900.
Rosh HaAyin was founded in the 1950s near the site of ancient Aphik, on the grounds of a British military camp. Many of the residents were Yemenite Jews airlifted to Israel in 1949 and 1950 in Operation Magic Carpet. The town still has a large Yemenite population. Rosh HaAyin is named after its location at the mouth of the Yarkon Spring (rosh = head, ayin = eye).
According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), in 2001 the ethnic makeup of the city was 99.8% Jewish, with a predominant number of young people below the age of 19. The population growth rate was 2.5%.
According to the CBS, there were 10,972 salaried workers and 1,033 self-employed in 2000. The...
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