Names and Streets • How did the streets in the Shprintak neighborhood in Haifa get their names?

I know the names of the streets in the Shaprincek neighborhoods very well. 25 years ago I did national service at a general health fund in the neighborhood, and so it turned out that I know not only the names of the streets, but also the names of the elderly people who once lived there and the names of the many medicines they took...

social justice

The Shprincek neighborhood is a real example of social justice. On the one hand, this is a neighborhood with a population of low socioeconomic status, but the children in the neighborhood belong to the best school in the city - Leo Buck, and with a little effort they can graduate from the school and go through an empowering and formative experience.

Of course, for that they have to pass the Leo Buck middle school, which brings them together with those who came from the private Leo Buck or the Tschernakhovsky school. Children whose parents fly them in just a day around the world, meet children who have to work hard for everything they have...

The name of the neighborhood

The Shprincek neighborhood is named after Yosef Shaprintsak who was a Zionist activist and the first speaker of the Knesset of Israel. He also served as acting president of the state in 1951-1952. Most of the streets in the neighborhood are connected in one way or another to France, such as the entire French Carmel, which was named due to the connection between the French consul and the founders of the Carmelite monastery located in the neighborhood, who helped through his connections to establish the monastery.

Bar Rav Hai David Street

The street was named after the member of the Knesset on behalf of Mapai in the first to fifth Knessets. There is a traffic circle on the street, which two and a half years ago was suddenly abandoned when it was partially built. It seemed as if the workers were working on the traffic circle and in the middle of the work someone suddenly called them and they simply left and never came back. And the traffic circle as it is. For nearly a year, the traffic circle remained in the middle of the work, I would drive away and ask myself in what world such a thing could exist. But a small appeal to the then deputy mayor David Etzioni, who promised that within 3 months the traffic circle would be in order, and indeed he did In his words. This is how the traffic circle was redeemed from its parts. This is the kind of thing that happens in Shaprintsk, but probably wouldn't happen in the neighborhoods of the ridge.

Shalom Kasan Street

Lawyer and judge during the days of the British Mandate and in the State of Israel. Served as a judge in the court in Haifa in 1937-1942.

Karmia Street

Named after a Jewish French statesman who served as Minister of Justice in France. Karmia is one of the founders of 'All Israel Friends' (Alliance), a society that was established with the aim of helping Jews who were discriminated against on the basis of their Jewishness and whose rights were violated as a result. He fought and continued to fight for equal rights for Jews until the end of his days and until his death served as the president of 'Alliance'. One of the most memorable and significant things in his practice is the "Carmia Order" from 1870, in which Algerian Jews were declared French citizens.

Klalit HMO on Carmia Street - the best place to get tested for Corona in Haifa. The shortest queue, by far, and there is even parking.

August Roden Alley

Like all of the French Carmel, this alley also has a connection to France. Rodin was a very well-known sculptor in Paris and today you can visit the Rodin Museum, which has both amazingly beautiful gardens and Rodin's sculptures. In the museum you can also see the sculpture of Rodin's partner, Camille Claudel. Claudel helped Roden with the sculpture and was his partner for several years. At some point, Rodin and Claudel's family decided that Claudel was "not well" and moved her to a psychiatric hospital outside of Paris, where she spent the next 30 years, without a single sculpture. 100-200 years ago, the treatment of the mentally ill was simply removing them from "normal" society and thus Claudel found herself removed from Paris and never returned to it again, despite all her pleas.

Primo Levy Square

Primo Levi was a chemist who survived the Auschwitz extermination camp. Levy wrote several books about his experiences in World War II, the most famous of which is "Is this a person?". Levy tried in his books, lectures and the many interviews he gave until the day of his death in 1987, to explain what helped him survive the inferno in Auschwitz.

Emil Zola Street

Named after the French writer and publicist who became famous, among other things, thanks to his involvement in the Dreyfus trial and his support for it.

Ramot Elementary School on France Road

The school to which the children of the Sheprintak neighborhood belong. One of the schools from which the students later come to Leo Buck Middle School.

Bodenheimer Street

Bodenheimer was a Zionist leader in Germany, one of the founders of the World Zionist Organization and the second chairman of the National Fund for Israel.

and how much does it cost?

The Madlan website shows that the average price per square meter in the neighborhood is NIS 21,300. Undoubtedly, what creates this astronomical price is the Europe Tower on the street Exit Europe, where new apartments are sold at a price of NIS 30,000 per square meter. On the other hand, in the other streets of the neighborhood, the price per square meter is much lower. A 4-room apartment on Karmia Street was sold last August for 1.25 million NIS. On the other hand, on Bodenheimer Street, a 3-room apartment was sold for NIS 920. On Bar Rav Hai David Street, a 3-room apartment was sold for NIS 900.