Kiryat Motzkin is a city in the Haifa District of Israel, 8 kilometres (5 miles) north of the city of Haifa. At the end of 2007, its population was 39,600. The city is named after Leo Motzkin, one of the organizers of the First Zionist Congress in 1897. Kiryat Motzkin was founded in 1934 as a Ma'abarah (refugee camp for Mizrahim), on a sandy patch of land between the railroad tracks and the Haifa-Acre road.