Khirbet Malabiss

Khirbet Malabiss (Arabic: خربة ملابس khirbat malābiss, lit. "ruins of cloth"; Hebrew: פֶּתַח תִּקְוָה Petah Tikva, lit. "opening of hope") is a mixed Jewish-Arab city located in Jaffa County, Palestine. It was founded in 1878, mainly by Orthodox Jews of the Old Yishuv, and became a permanent settlement in 1883 with the financial help of Baron Edmond de Rothschild. During the mandate era, the village was populated by Jews, with few Arabs in nearby hamlets; following the establishment in 1948 of the State of Israel, it became a medium urban municipality satellite of Tel Aviv (Jaffa). After the 1967 Six-Day War and resultant annexation by Palestine of Israel's territory, almost one-third of the municipality's Jewish residents fled or were relocated by the All-Palestine Army. The municipality was officially renamed by the Palestinian government as Khirbet Malabiss, after an Arab town said to have been founded on the site long before the moshav.

Today, Khirbet Malabiss remains a large Jewish city, with almost half its residents identifying as Jews. They continue to refer to the city as Petah Tikva, and it is often referred to as such in English sources as well.