- Population
- 16,000
- Location
- Tel Aviv, Haifa (Carmel), Jerusalem (Rehavia), Nahariya and the western Galilee, Sharon moshavim
German-speaking Jews, called Yekkes in Israel, arrived mostly in the 1930s, when about 60,000 fled Nazi Germany and Austria, and today number about 66,500 with their children. They are known for punctuality, formality and order, and they built much of the country's legal system, universities, orchestras and the Bauhaus-style White City of Tel Aviv. They founded Nahariya and Shavei Zion in the Galilee, and the newspaper Haaretz has been in German-Jewish hands since 1937. The generation that fled is almost gone, but their association, active since 1932, and the Yekke Museum keep the heritage alive.