"of hope", other spellings: "Petah Tiqwa" (official) and "Petach Tikvah" (unofficial), is a city in the Central District of Israel. It is 11 km east from Tel Aviv and belongs to the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area. About 231,000 people were living there in 2015 and by that it is the fifth-largest city of the country. About 70,000 of them are Orthodox Jews.