Netanya

Netanya is a town inside the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the encompassing Sharon easy. It is 30 km north of Tel Aviv, and 56 km south of Haifa, the various 'Poleg' flow and Wingate Institute inside the south and the 'Avichail' motion inside the north. Netanya was named in honor of Nathan Straus, a prominent Jewish American service provider and philanthropist inside the early twentieth century who emerge as the co-proprietor of Macy's department hold. The idea to create the settlement of Netanya changed into drawn up at a meeting of the Bnei Binyamin affiliation in Zikhron Ya'akov.

The location became determined upon near the historical web site of Poleg, and it modified into decided to call it in honor of Nathan Hebrew: Natan Straus 1848–1931, co-owner of Macy's branch save, New York City Parks Commissioner, and president of the New York City Board of Health,who gifted -thirds of his personal fortune to tasks benefiting Jews and Arabs in Palestine. Netanya was named for Straus within the wish he could donate coins to them. When he informed them he had no extra cash to offer they had been disappointed, but decided to maintain the town's name except.