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Rishon LeẔiyyon, Israel

Travel to Rishon Le?iyyon

Rishon LeZion (Hebrew: רִאשׁוֹן לְצִיּוֹן‎ (audio) , lit. First to Zion) is a city in Israel, located along the central Israeli coastal plain 8 km (5 mi) south of Tel Aviv. It is part of the Gush Dan metropolitan area.

Founded in 1882 by Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire who were part of the First Aliyah, it was the second Jewish farm settlement established in Ottoman Palestine in the 19th century, after Petah Tikva. As of 2017, it was the fourth-largest city in Israel, with a population of 254,384.