Kosher and Jewish Life in Kiryat Mozkin

Kiryat Motzkin is a city in the Haifa District of Israel, 8 kilometres north of the city of Haifa. At the end of 2007, its population was 39,600. The city is named after Leo Motzkin, one of the organizers of the First Zionist Congress in 1897. The present-day station stands on the spot of a halt on the Jezreel Valley railway, constructed by the Ottoman Empire in 1903-1904. In 1937, as part of converting the old narrow-gauge Ottoman railway to standard gauge, the British Mandate for Palestine constructed the station building at this location. There is a zoo at Hay Park in Kiryat Motzkin. The climate in Kiryat Motzkin is warm and temperate. In winter, there is much more rainfall in Kiryat Motzkin than in summer. The average annual temperature in Kiryat Motzkin is 10.5 °C. The rainfall here averages 531 mm.