Editing Netanya (section)

=== Kiryat Sanz ===
In 1956, a beachfront in northern Netanya was selected as a home base for the [[Sanz (Hasidic dynasty)|Sanzer]] [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidim]] by its leader, Rabbi [[Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam]]. Halberstam established kindergartens, boys' and girls' schools, [[yeshiva]]s, seminaries, synagogues, a children's home for orphaned and needy girls,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mybatmitzvah.org/aboutus.php |title=About Us |access-date=December 30, 2010 |publisher=Lev Lalev |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101010113548/http://www.mybatmitzvah.org/aboutus.php |archive-date=October 10, 2010 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref> an old-age home, and a hospital. In addition to religious services, [[Kiryat Sanz, Netanya|Kiryat Sanz]] had a diamond polishing factory built by a New York diamond merchant.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Historical Perspective of Laniado Hospital |url=http://www.laniadohospital.org/historical-prospective.html |publisher=American Friends of Laniado Hospital |access-date=February 19, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727014112/http://www.laniadohospital.org/historical-prospective.html |archive-date=July 27, 2011 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Halberstam established his court here in 1960.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Klausenberger Rebbe: Rebuilding |last=Lifschitz |first=Judah |year=2007 |publisher=[[Targum Press]] |page=[https://archive.org/details/klausenbergerreb0000sors/page/175 175] |isbn=978-1-56871-451-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/klausenbergerreb0000sors/page/175}}</ref> Following his death in 1994, his eldest son, Rabbi [[Zvi Elimelech Halberstam]], known as the Sanzer Rebbe, became the spiritual leader of the Sanz community in Israel.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishpress.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=26813 |title=Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe's Anticipated Visit |last=Tannenbaum |first=Rabbi Gershon |date=December 12, 2007 |access-date=December 25, 2010 |work=[[The Jewish Press]] |archive-date=July 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713104431/http://www.jewishpress.com/printArticle.cfm?contentid=26813 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2010,  Kiryat Sanz had a population of approximately 1000 families.<ref name="real">{{cite web |url=http://www.luxury-israel-real-estate.info/locations/netanya-real-estate.html |title=Netanya Real Estate |publisher=Luxury Israel Real Estate |access-date=December 30, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101110034258/http://www.luxury-israel-real-estate.info/locations/netanya-real-estate.html |archive-date=November 10, 2010 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Most of the older generation are Holocaust survivors.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=20738 |title=Rebuilding is Remembrance |last=Leibowitz Schmidt |first=Shira |date=May 4, 2006 |access-date=December 30, 2010 |work=[[The Jerusalem Post]]}}</ref> Besides its educational facilities for boys and girls from elementary to post-graduate,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igJ_Y6SgUNAC&q=kiryat+sanz,+netanya&pg=PA204 |page=204 |title=Letter to My Children: From Romania to America via Auschwitz |last=Tessler |first=Rudolph |year=1999 |publisher=University of Missouri Press |isbn=978-0-8262-1244-3 |access-date=October 25, 2020 |archive-date=March 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220327060859/https://books.google.com/books?id=igJ_Y6SgUNAC&q=kiryat+sanz%2C+netanya&pg=PA204 |url-status=live }}</ref> there are five synagogues, a [[mikveh]], a printing house,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sanz.dpages.co.il/ |title=Kiryat Sanz |publisher=Kiryat Sanz & Institutions |access-date=December 30, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721135030/http://sanz.dpages.co.il/ |archive-date=July 21, 2011 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> a religious hotel, a religious nursing school, and the [[Laniado Hospital]],<ref name="real" /> which encompasses two medical centers, a children's hospital, a geriatric center and a nursing school, serving a regional population of over 450,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.laniado.co.uk/about-laniado.html |title=About the Hospital |publisher=British Friends of Laniado Hospital |access-date=December 28, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101112171513/http://www.laniado.co.uk/about-laniado.html |archive-date=November 12, 2010 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>