HaSharon Mall
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HaSharon Mall is the main mall in Netanya
Netanya
Netanya is a city in the Northern Centre District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.Its of beaches have made the...

. The mall was opened in 1989. At the time of its opening it was the third Shoping mall which was opened in Israel after the Dizengoff Center
Dizengoff Center
Dizengoff Center is a shopping mall at the intersection of Dizengoff Street and King George Street in Tel Aviv. The mall is named for Meir Dizengoff, the first mayor of Tel Aviv.-History:...

 and the Ayalon Mall
Ayalon Mall
Ayalon Mall is a mall in Ramat Gan, Israel. Opened in 1986, Ayalon Mall was the first mall in Israel to have a large shopping complex outside the city centre with a parking lot surrounding it...

. The mall's trade area is 17,000 square meters and it includes 675 Parking Spaces. The mall was designed by the architect Avraham Yaski
Avraham Yaski
-Biography:Avraham Yaski was born in Chişinău, Romania on 14 April 1927 and moved to the British Mandate of Palestine with his family in 1935. Yaski studied at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Early in his career he worked in the office of Arieh Sharon...

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In 2004 the mall added a new compound that contains 33 stores, and renovated the fast food area.

In 2007 the Alrov Group sold the mall to the "Malls of Israel" group. In 2009 a new expanision project was initiated which is expected to be completed in 2011.

During the 2000s the mall was exposed to 3 terrorist suicide bombings, which all occurred in the main entrance to the mall from Herzl Street, in which 14 people were killed in total.

See also

  • List of shopping malls in Israel
  • HaSharon Mall suicide bombing (December 5, 2005)
    HaSharon Mall suicide bombing (December 5, 2005)
    The third HaSharon Mall entrance suicide bombing was a suicide bombing which occurred on December 5, 2005 in the HaSharon Mall in Netanya. Five people were killed in the attack....

  • HaSharon Mall suicide bombing (July 12, 2005)
    HaSharon Mall suicide bombing (July 12, 2005)
    The second HaSharon Mall entrance suicide bombing was a suicide bombing which occurred on July 12, 2005 in the HaSharon Mall in Netanya. 4 people were killed in the attack....

  • 2001 HaSharon Mall suicide bombing
    2001 HaSharon Mall suicide bombing
    The 2001 HaSharon Mall suicide bombing was a suicide bombing which occurred on May 18, 2001 in the HaSharon Mall in Netanya. 5 people were killed in the attack.The Palestinian Islamist militant organization Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack....

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