Know your Kirya

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Whether you are a long-time resident of the place or a recent visitor, or you don't live there at all, you certainly want to know the origin of the name "Kiryat Bialystok" and who are the people whose names the streets of the Kiryat are named after.

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Well, the data in a nutshell: there was once a city in Poland, mostly Jewish, its name was Bialystok. A huge reservoir of Jewish creative power (founded in the north-east of Poland in the 15th century). Its Jewish settlement and the surrounding district were mostly wiped out in the Holocaust.

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Kiryat Bialystok came to symbolically commemorate the continued existence of the city in exile.

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​Kiryat Bialystok is a neighborhood within the jurisdiction of the city of Yehud. Since its inception, in the early 1950s, its establishment was made possible by charitable foundations in the USA and all over the world, from among the expatriates of Bialystok. The money was given as a loan to those who lived there and as a donation for the establishment of public institutions and infrastructure such as: a synagogue, the Bialystok Hall (Beit Am), kindergartens, a high school, a clinic, a children's daycare center, a textile factory and more.

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In recent years, the Kirya has undergone a process of construction and expansion. From a neighborhood of single or two-family houses (about 46 square meters per house) on a residential area that was originally intended for agricultural development ("ancillary farm") - has become an area for the construction of additional houses on the surfaces that have long ceased to be used as auxiliary farms. The population also is very diverse, in addition to the construction of houses for sons on the parents' plots, plots were also sold to all those who were interested. We hope that the veterans and those who came from near will form a cohesive community that is proud to bear the name Kiryat Bialystok.

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​Our Kiryat Bialystok extends over 14 streets and alleys from Ben Gurion Street, which spreads out in front of Perdasi and Moshav Magashim orchards (in the east), through Kaplansky Street connected to the comprehensive high school (in the north) to Weizman Street in the west. In the south, Alpert Street borders the Kiryat Bialystok.

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 And these are the streets of the Kiriyat Bialystok named after people from Bialystok: Mohliver Street, Alpert Street, Moshe Hasid Street, Hazanovitz Street, Yitzhak Melamed Street, Sukienik Street, Kaplanski Street, Tenenbaum Street, etc. Information regarding the above-mentioned individuals - see the "Personalities from Bialystok".

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The chain of photos below are of the various public buildings in Kiryat Bialystok, including the synagogue, the monument, High school, "Bialystok Hall" etc.

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