Safed

Safed (Hebrew: צפת Tzfat ; Arab: صفد Safad; also called Zefat, Tsfat, Zfat, Safad, Safes, Safet, Tzfat, etc) are a city located in the north of Israel at an altitude of 900 meters at the top of the sea level, and one of its four Jewish Holy Cities, with Jerusalem, Hebron and Tibériade.

It is twinned with:

History

The city, or at least its site, was founded according to the tradition by Sem, one of three wire of Noah, which studied there readily with his/her son Eber, but Safed developed with the proportions of a city only at the era of the Roman occupation.

It is particularly important in the history of the Judaïsme, becoming the refuge many scholars following the expulsion of the Jews of Spain in 1492, and fact one of the great centers of the Kabbale, collecting scientists as famous as Moïse Cordovero or Isaac Louria, but also of the Halakha, since Yossef Karo also resided at it.

The templiers batîrent there a fortress which fell to the hands from the Sultan Baybars in July 1266.

The city was prosperous until the 16th century, and one founded there the first printing works of the Middle East in 1578. However, of the epidemics, earthquakes and conflicts with the Arab population involved its decline. The city was practically deserted by the Jewish population after the Arab riots from 1929.

Safed regained nowadays in popularity, and is become again a center of Jewish studies. It is also an artistic center, with its famous paved streets.

According to CBS, in 2003 the ethnic makeup off the city was 97.2% Jew ish and other non-Arabs, without significant Arab population. In 2001 there were 202 immigrant settlers. See Population groups in Israel.

According to CBS, in 2001 there were 12,700 males and 13,200 females. The population off the city was spread out with 43.2% 19 years off old gold younger, 13.5% between 20 and 29,17.1% between 30 and 44,12.5% from 45 to 59,3.1% from 60 to 64, and 10.5% 65 years off old gold older.

The population growth spleen in 2001 was 3.0%, and 0.9% in 2003.

Income

Ace off December, 2001, the CBS' Socio-economic ranking places the city slightly bellow the average, At 4 out off 10, with year average income off 4,476 Shekel S per annum to have national average off 6,835 shekels

According to CBS, ace off 2000, in the city there were 6,450 salaried workers and 523 are coil-employed. The mean monthly wage in 2000 for has salaried worker in the city is THEY 4,476, has real changes off 8.1% over the race off 2000. Salaried males cuts has mean monthly wage off THEY 5,631 (real has changes 10.2% off) versus THEY 3,330 for females (real has changes 2.3% off). The mean income for the coil-employed is 4,843. Receive There are 425 people who receive unemployment benefits and 3,085 people who year income guarantee.

Education

According to CBS, there are 25 schools and 6,292 students in the city. They are spread out ace 18 elementary schools and 3,965 elementary school students, and 11 high schools and 2,327 high school students. 40.8% off 12th rank students were entitled to has matriculation certificate in 2001. -->

External bonds

Official site of the city
Official site Zefat

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