Amishav Settlement

Amishav is a neighborhood located in the southeastern part of the city of Petah Tikva, east of Route 40 (Jerusalem Street), near Kfar Sirkin.

Amishav was founded as a transit camp (ma'abara) in June 1951 on the lands of the village of Fajja, and was initially known as "Petah Tikva Crossing." The first settlers in the camp were new immigrants from Iraq, who later made up about 85% of the population. Other immigrants later arrived from Persia, Romania, Afghanistan, and Yemen. By the end of 1952, all the tents at the site had been replaced with barracks leased by residents from the "Amidar" company.

A few settlers left for other locations, while others arrived from various settlements. In mid-1953, the government naming committee decided to name it "Amishav" in commemoration of the "miracle of Kibbutz HaGadalyot." By early 1955, the transit camp housed about 8,000 residents living in leaking huts without electricity.

Sources:Due to the scarcity of Arabic sources, the following Hebrew sources were relied upon:

• The settlement's official website (Hebrew)

• Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics

• Information on the village of Fajja from the Palestine Remembered website.