Yavne

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Yavne (Hebrew יבנה, Arabic يبنة Yibnah; traditional English spelling Jabneh) is a city in the Center District of Israel in Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2005 the city had a total population of 35,000.

Contents

1 Demographics
2 Income
3 Education
4 History
5 Famous people from the town
6 External link

Demographics

According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), in 2001 the ethnic makeup of the city was Jewish and others, without significant Arab population. See Population groups in Israel. There were 15,800 men and 16,000 women. The ages of city resdents were fairly spread out:

38.5% aged 19 years or younger
16.7% aged 20 to 29
18.6% aged 30 to 44
18.2% aged 45 to 59
2.1% aged 60 to 64
5.8% aged 65 years or older

The population growth rate in 2001 was 0.5%. 103 new residents moved to Yavne in that year.

Income

According to CBS, as of 2000, in the city there were 10,910 salaried workers and 966 are self-employed. The mean monthly wage in 2000 for a salaried worker in the city is ILS 5,699, a real change of 4.1% over the course of 2000. Salaried males have a mean monthly wage of ILS 7,430 (a real change of 1.1%) versus ILS 4,042 for females (a real change of 10.8%). The mean income for the self-employed is 7,631. There are 640 people who receive unemployment benefits and 2,396 people who receive an income guarantee.

Education

According to CBS, there are 16 schools and 7,445 students in the city. They are spread out as 11 elementary schools and 4,037 elementary school students, and 9 high schools and 3,408 high school students. 59.6% of 12th grade students were entitled to a matriculation certificate in 2001.

History

The Romans called it Iamnia. After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakkai moved the Sanhedrin to Yavne. Shortly thereafter, the Council of Jamnia, from which Rabbinical Judaism emerged, met there. The infrastructure developed here enabled the continued existence of the Jewish people for nearly 2000 years.

The crusaders called the site Ibelin, and built a castle there in 1141. The namesake Ibelin family was an important noble family in the Kingdom of Jerusalem and later in the Kingdom of Cyprus. Ibelin itself was captured by Saladin in 1187.

The Palestinian village of Yibna was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War; the modern Israeli site of Yavne is close by.

Famous people from the town

Meir Sheetrit

External link

http://www.yavnet.co.il/
["Online community for Yibna's Palestinian Refugees"]

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