kiryat Malakhi

Kiryat Malakhi is a city within the Southern District of Israel, 17 kilometres from Ashkelon. In 2017 it had a population of 22,337. Its jurisdiction is 4,632 dunams. Kiryat Malakhi, actually "City of Angels", turned into installed in 1951 as a ma'abara, or tent metropolis, to house the masses of Jewish immigrants who arrived during the early days of the kingdom, many of them part of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands. The name become chosen to honor the Jewish community of Los Angeles, which contributed a great deal of the investment for its established order.

It became founded on the land belonging to the depopulated Palestinian village of Qastina. Kiryat Malakhi later became certainly one of several development towns inside the Negev. Moshe Katsav, later Israel's 8th president, become elected mayor in 1969 on the age of 24. His more youthful brother, Lior Katsav, became additionally mayor of Kiryat Malakhi, at the same time as Yosef Vanunu held the submit from 1981 till the Nineteen Nineties. The present day mayor is Eliyahu Zohar.