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Bat Yam, Israel Bayit ve Gan Founded in 1926 with a Hebrew name meaning ‘House and Garden’, the name was changed ten years later to ‘Daughter of the Sea’ from the Hebrew bat ‘daughter’ and yam ‘sea’.

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Bat Yam , city (1994 pop. 142,300), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea, near Tel Aviv. It is a suburb and an industrial center. The city was founded in 1926 and originally called Bayit VeGan [Heb.,=home and garden].

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