British Mandate
Bat Yam, originally Bayit VeGan ("House and Garden"), was founded in 1919 by the Bayit VeGan homeowners association, affiliated with the Mizrachi movement. The association was … See more

Ramat Yosef
Named after Yosef Sprinzak, and is one of the oldest in Bat Yam, with most of its houses built in the fifties and sixties.
Shikkun Amidar See more

In the early 2000s, after financial scandals under the leadership of Yehoshua Sagi, the city was on the brink of bankruptcy. In 2003, he was replaced by Shlomo Lahiani, founder of the Bat Yam… See more

The Yehuda Abarbanel Mental Health Center is a psychiatric hospital founded in 1944 by the British Mandate authorities. Since the establishment of the state, it had been… See more

A small Hasidic enclave of Bobover Hasidim, known as Kiryat Bobov, was established in 1958.
The vast majority of Israelis of Vietnamese origin live in Bat Yam.
Since the wave of… See more

The Defenders' Square
A monument in the memory of the defenders of the city who fell in battle. Located at the entrance to Bat Yam from Tel Aviv. In the War of… See more

In 2016, the municipality approved an urban renewal plan in the Ramat Hanasi neighborhood, adding 950 high-end apartments.
According to Bat Yam… See more