Pardes Katz

Pardes Katz (Hebrew: פָּרְדֵס כָּץ) is a neighborhood in the northern part of the city of Bnei Brak in Tel Aviv District.

The neighborhood is named after its founder, Haim Moshe Katz, a native of Poland who made his fortune in the United States.

He immigrated to Israel in 1926, and purchased 173 acres of orchards on the road from Tel Aviv to Petah Tikva, north of Bnei Brak.

In the wake of the global economic crisis of 1929, parts of the orchards stopped being used, and as of October 1933 they were offered for sale as private building plots.

In July 1936 the health department of the Mandatory Palestine rented Katz's own orchard, and established the government Hospital for Infectious Diseases.