Pardes Hanna-Karkur

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Country	Israel
Pardes Hanna-Karkur פרדס חנה-כרכור
Caesarea-Pardes Hanna Train Station
District	Haifa
Founded	1969
Area
- Total	*Expression error: Unexpected operator km² (Expression error: Unexpected / operator** sq mi)
Population (2004)
- Total	29,300
Time zone	IST (UTC+2)
- Summer (DST)	IDT (UTC+3)

Pardes Hanna-Karkur (Hebrew: פרדס חנה-כרכור) is a town (local council) in the Haifa District of Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, its population is 29,300 (end of 2004) and its area is 23,000 dunams (23 km²).

Karkur was founded in 1913 when the land was purchased by the London Estate, a Jewish company. The area was settled permanently in 1926. In 1927, Karkur's population was 300.

Pardes Hanna was founded in 1929 by PJCA and named after Hannah Mayer Rothschild, daughter of Nathan Mayer Rothschild. In the 1950s, the villages Tel Shalom and Neve Efraim were merged with Pardes Hanna.

The towns were merged in 1969.

Pardes Hanna-Karkur has the largest population of any local council in Israel.

(Hebrew) Official website

v • d • e Haifa District
Cities	Baqa-Jatt \| Carmel City \| Hadera \| Haifa \| Kiryat Ata \| Kiryat Bialik \| Kiryat Motzkin \| Kiryat Yam \| Nesher \| Or Akiva \| Tirat Carmel \| Umm al-Fahm
Local councils	Ar'ara \| Basma \| Binyamina-Giv'at Ada \| Jisr az-Zarqa \| Kafr Qara \| Ma'ale Iron \| Pardes Hanna-Karkur \| Fureidis \| Kiryat Tiv'on \| Rekhasim \| Zikhron Ya'aqov
Regional councils	Alona \| Hof Karmel \| Menashe \| Zevulun

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