Giv'at Shmuel

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 גִּבְעַת שְׁמוּאֵל‎
Hebrew transcription(s)
• ISO 259	Gibˁat Šmuˀel
Giv'at Shmuel
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'.

Social Life

Ilan Ramon pairk

Residential touer

A leisure an sports centre is bein established on an aurie o aboot 32 dunams in northeastren Givat Shmuel (toun plan 3107), which incorporates tennis courts, fitness ruims, soummin puils, a roller skatin rink, a cafeteria an ither services, alang wi watter pairk, coverin an aurie o aboot 5 dunams.

Education

Giv'at Shmuel is considered a heichlie educatit toun, wi 74.3% o heich schuil graduates bein eligible for a matriculation certificate. Adjacent tae the Sooth-Wastren edge o Giv'at Shmuel is the campus o Bar Ilan University. While technically in Ramat Gan, the campus haes been expandin in recent years tae the effect that it nou separates the soothren Ramat Ilan neighbourhuid o Giv'at Shmuel frae the rest o the ceety.

Sports

Maccabi Giv'at Shmuel, the toun's basketbaw team, currently play in Ligat HaAl, the tap diveesion o Israeli basketbaw. Thay reached the State Cup feenal in 2003, but lost tae Maccabi Tel Aviv. Despite representin Giv'at Shmuel, thay play in nearbi Or Yehuda.

Commencin Aprile 30, 2010 a local runnin race haes been inauguratit which is intendit tae tak place annually. Durin the first race, 350 runners frae aw ower the kintra pairticipatit in a 10 km heat an ower 750 youngsters in a 2 km non-competitive heat. The 10 km competitive heat wis led bi the kintra's tap lang distance runners.

Twin touns

• Gołdap, Poland
• Stade, Germany
• Dubna, Roushie

Freemit airtins

• "Municipality of Givat Shmuel" - The Offeecial Steid Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
• "The First Givat Shmuel Runnin Race" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
• "ROSH HAGIVA" - Torah Essays frae Givat Shmuel
• eTV Channel o activities in Givat Shmuel
• Film aboot "Day of Joy" in Givat Shmuel Archived 2011-05-29 at the Wayback Machine
• [1] Archived 2009-04-15 at the Wayback Machine