Zikhron Ya'akov (isr)

Zikhron Ya'akov

Zikhron Ya'akov ranks 9,681st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Nettuno, Korean Empire, and La Rochefoucauld, Charente. Memorable people born in Zikhron Ya'akov include Sarah Aaronsohn, Tony Cliff, and Ran Sagiv. Memorable people who died in Zikhron Ya'akov include Sarah Aaronsohn, and Aaron Aaronsohn. Zikhron Ya'akov has been the birth place of many politicians, and writers and the death place of many politicians, and biologists. Zikhron Ya'akov is located in Israel.

Zikhron Ya'akov is a Moshava (town) in Israel, 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Haifa, and part of the Haifa District. It is located at the southern end of the Carmel mountain range overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, near the coastal highway. It was one of the first Moshavot of Halutzim in the country, founded in 1882 by Romanian Jews, who in 1883 received support from Baron Edmond James de Rothschild and renamed their town in honor of his father, James Mayer de Rothschild. In 2022 it had a population of 24,145. Read more on Wikipedia