Holon (Hebrew: חוֹלוֹן (audio) ; Arabic: حولون) is a city on the central coastal strip south of Tel Aviv, Israel. Holon is part of the metropolitan Gush Dan area. In 2011, it had a population of 182,575. Holon has the second-largest industrial zone in Israel, after Haifa.
The name of the city comes from the Hebrew word holon, meaning "(little) sand". The name Holon also appears in the Bible: "And Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs" (Book of Joshua, 21:15).
Holon was founded on sand dunes six kilometers (3.7 miles) from Tel Aviv in 1935. The Łódzia textile factory was established there by Jewish immigrants from Łódź, Poland, along with many other industrial enterprises. In the early months of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Holon was on the front line, with constant shooting taking place on the border with the village of Tel A-Rish to its northwest—a suburb of Arab Jaffa—and clashes also in the direction of the town of Yazur to the east. An attack by the Holon-based Haganah militia units on Tel A-Rish was repulsed with considerable losses. After the establishment of the state, Holon expanded to include Tel A-Rish (renamed "Tel Giborim", "The Mound of the Heroes") and the orange groves of Yazur.
Holon is the only album by electro-industrial and drum and bass band Equinox, released in 1998 by Hypnotic. Equinox was a side project of Canadian industrial musicians Bill Leeb and Chris Peterson of Canadian industrial band Front Line Assembly.
The album spawned the vinyl-only single Contact, including a remix of the title track and album track "Phenomena". Tracks from Holon also found their way onto the compilations Cryogenic Studios and Cryogenic Studio, Vol. 2 both of which are collections of tracks from Front Line Assembly and related projects.
Holon is a city on the central coastal strip south of Tel Aviv, Israel.
Holon may also refer to:
What is this life I've stumbled in to?
Where's it gonna take me?
Where's it gonna take you?
If life is a journey, then I know where I'll be
By the ocean, oh, that valley in the sea
But I don't think anyone's looking for me
Especially you
And if someone is looking, then who?
And it's amazing
How lost inside you feel
When you look fine on the outside
You're screaming, "Someone take the wheel!"
And it's amazing
Yeah, they think you've got it all
But it might just be a pebble
That's gonna make you fall
What is this story that tells me I'm fine?
It adds color to my pages
Like a sweet, little nursery rhyme
If I had the answers
Then I know where I'd be
By the ocean, oh, that valley in the sea
And it's amazing
How lost inside you feel
When you look fine on the outside
You're screaming, "Someone take the wheel!"
And it's amazing
Yeah, they think you've got it all
But it might just be a pebble
That's gonna make you fall away
Like summer fades to grey
And be honest babe
Cause it hurts so much to say
That I don't think anyone's looking for me
Especially you
And if someone is looking, then who?
And it's amazing
How lost inside you feel
When you look fine on the outside
You're screaming, "Someone take the wheel!"
And it's amazing
Yeah, they think you've got it all
But it might just be a pebble
That's gonna make you fall
That's gonna make you fall