ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the urban development of the Moshavah - towns in order to gain an understanding of their special characteristics and their future development as towns. In 1878, Petah Tiqva was established after three Jewish leaders from Jerusalem found some land there which they bought and built on it an agricultural settlement for those Jews who wanted to leave the old city of Jerusalem. In Petah, Tiqva's first decade of existence, intensive agriculture was the dominant monoculture. Between 1889 and 1903, with the assistance of Baron Rothschild, vineyards dominated the agriculture. It appears that agriculture, the original basis of the Moshavot, had a great influence on their construction, shape and in the prevention of the creation of a true urban system. Rehovot outlines plan anticipates a future population of 100,000 people, with industrial areas in the north, south and west.
