Givʿatayim, city, eastern suburb of Tel Aviv–Yafo, west-central Israel, on the Plain of Sharon. The city is a union of several workers’ quarters, the first of which, Shekhunat Borokhov, was founded in 1922. It was the first suburban workers’ development in Jewish Palestine. The various sections now making up Givʿatayim were united in 1942; it was incorporated as a city in 1959. The city’s light industries include food processing and printing. Pop. (2006 est.) 49,200.

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