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Kiryat Sanz, Netanya

Coordinates: 32°20′46.5″N 34°51′25.82″E / 32.346250°N 34.8571722°E / 32.346250; 34.8571722
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Kiryat Sanz (Hebrew: קריית צאנז, also spelled Kiriat Tzanz) is a Haredi neighborhood located at the northwestern end of Netanya, Israel.[1] Founded in 1956 by the previous Klausenburger Rebbe, Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam, who established his court there in 1960,[2] Kiryat Sanz is the world center for Sanz-Klausenburg Hasidism.[3] Halberstam's son and successor, Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Halberstam, known as the Sanzer Rebbe, holds his court here.

History

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In the 1950s, as the nascent State of Israel began building its population, the Klausenburger rebbe — who had emigrated to the United States in 1947 after surviving The Holocaust and living in displaced persons camps — applied to the Israeli government for land on which to build a Hasidic settlement for Holocaust survivors[2][4] and chose land on the Netanya beachfront.[5] for $1 million.[6] Later the Israel Land Administration granted additional acreage to the budding community.[7]

He laid the cornerstone for Kiryat Sanz on 4 March (21 Adar) 1956.

Laniado Hospital's cornerstone-laying in 1974. Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam is at center left; his son Zvi Elimelech Halberstam is on his left.

In 1958 Halberstam laid the cornerstone for both the old-age home and the hospital; the former was completed in 1960, while the latter, which became known as Laniado Hospital, did not open until 1975.[8] In addition to religious services, the new settlement had a diamond polishing factory built by a New York diamond merchant.[9]

Halberstam, his family, and 50 followers moved to Israel to Kiryat Sanz on 20 December (19 Kislev) 1959.[10] He died in Kiryat Sanz on 18 June 1994.[11]

21st century

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Laniado Hospital maternity wing.

Kiryat Sanz has a population of approximately 1500 families.[1] As of 2006 most of the older residents weree Holocaust survivors.[12]It has schools,[13] synagogues, a mikveh (required bath), a printing house,[14] a religious hotel, a religious nursing school, and the Laniado Hospital,[1] which encompasses two medical centers, a children's hospital, a geriatric center and a nursing school, serving a regional population of over 450,000.[15]

Its beachfront was the first in Israel to schedule separate swimming hours for men and women.[2]

Since the Rebbe's death in 1994, his eldest son, Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Halberstam, known as the Sanzer Rebbe, has been the spiritual leader of the Sanz community in Israel. From his home in Kiryat Sanz, he directs the Sanz Torah and chessed organizations in Netanya, Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Petah Tikva, Haifa, Safed, Ashdod, Modiin, Beitar Illit,Tiberias,Elad,Monsey N.Y., Boro Park N.Y., Williamsburg N.Y, Lakewood N.J., and Union city N.J..[16] He is also directly responsible for all the institutions built by his father in Israel, including Laniado Hospital, where he serves as president.[17]

Landmarks

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Netanya Real Estate". Luxury Israel Real Estate. Archived from the original on 10 November 2010. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
  2. ^ a b c Wolpian, Nisson (1995). Torah Lives: A treasury of biographical sketches collected from the pages of The Jewish Observer. Mesorah Publications. pp. 11–12. ISBN 0-89906-319-5.
  3. ^ Granot, Rabbi Tamir. "The Holocaust in the Teachings of Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam of Sanz-Klausenburg (Part 1)". Yeshivat Har Etzion. Retrieved 17 February 2011.
  4. ^ Lifschitz, Rebuilding, p. 159.
  5. ^ Lifschitz, Rebuilding, pp. 160–161.
  6. ^ Lifschitz, Rebuilding, p. 71.
  7. ^ Lifschitz, Rebuilding, p. 162
  8. ^ Hall, Y. (1 February 2006). The Hospital with a Jewish Heart. Hamodia Magazine, pp. 12-13, 17.
  9. ^ "A Historical Perspective of Laniado Hospital". American Friends of Laniado Hospital. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 19 February 2011.
  10. ^ Lifschitz, Rebuilding, p. 175.
  11. ^ Finkel, Avraham Yaakov (1994). Contemporary Sages: The great Chasidic masters of the twentieth century. J. Aronson. p. 161. ISBN 1-56821-155-4.
  12. ^ Leibowitz Schmidt, Shira (4 May 2006). "Rebuilding is Remembrance". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
  13. ^ Tessler, Rudolph (1999). Letter To My Children: From Romania to America via Auschwitz. University of Missouri Press. p. 204. ISBN 0-8262-1244-1.
  14. ^ "Kiryat Sanz". Kiryat Sanz & Institutions. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2010.
  15. ^ "About the Hospital". British Friends of Laniado Hospital. Archived from the original on 12 November 2010. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
  16. ^ Tannenbaum, Rabbi Gershon (12 December 2007). "Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe's Anticipated Visit". The Jewish Press. Retrieved 25 December 2010.
  17. ^ Feinberg, Linda (23 November 2002). "Snatching Lives from the Angel of Death: Laniado Hospital refuses to give up hope". aish.com. Retrieved 25 December 2010.

Sources

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Lifschitz, Judah (2007). The Klausenberger Rebbe: Rebuilding. Targum Press. ISBN 978-1-56871-451-6.

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32°20′46.5″N 34°51′25.82″E / 32.346250°N 34.8571722°E / 32.346250; 34.8571722

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