Streets and names in Haifa - how did the streets in the estate get their names?

An estate neighborhood is a large neighborhood that includes many streets. It starts in Horev and Freud Road and borders the Shamburg neighborhood.

In the neighborhood, Horev and Moriah streets are the main streets and there are also smaller streets. In the neighborhood there are the Zikrhon Yosef and Reali Azoza schools, and the Carmel Medical Center and the Smile College (where the old Carmel Hospital used to be). There are also old people's homes in the neighborhood: the Spanish old people's home in Horev and the old people's home for Central European immigrants on Sderot Sinai Street.

The Doctor and Lincoln

In my childhood, I had a friend from class, who lived on Harofeh Street. When I would come to it on foot, there were such terrible spirits on the street (some of the houses that are on the street today did not exist in the early 90s), and I told myself that I would never live in such a place.

The sea in the palm of your hand

Lincoln Street is below Harofeh Street. Years ago, the tenants of Lincoln Street wanted to vacate their buildings, but the residents of Harofeh Street objected, because they feared it would damage their view. The court was already required in the past to the issue of the view and determined that the view is not the property of the apartment owner. The residents of Harofeh Street lost and the residents of Lincoln Street renewed their apartments. Either way, the view enjoyed by the residents of Harofeh and Lincoln streets is unbelievable, as if the sea were in the palm of your hand.

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Michal Street is named after the poet Micha Yosef Lebenzon, who was born in Vilnius in 1828. This street is the closest to a street named after me, and I'm perfectly fine with that. Everyone has to recognize their destiny. But this street is still very lovable About me There is a highly regarded kindergarten on my street, which is attended by parents from far and near.

Flowers - honeysuckle - flowers

For years I have been driving with my daughters on Moriah Street in Safar Square, and we look to the right at the flower shop "Yara Flowers", and do not understand how the shop has two signs and on each sign the name of the shop is different. "Honeysuckle Flowers" or "Honeysuckle Flowers", one way or another, we really like the name of the store.

We no longer go down to Hadar

In the 80s, when we wanted to buy something, we would go to Hadar, to Herzl or Halutz streets. It was both entertainment and splendor was everything. After that, the era of shopping malls began. The first mall in Haifa was Panorama and the second was Horev Center. I remember myself passing through the Horev intersection, when the Horev center was still under construction and in the late 80s it was opened to the general public. Over the years and the construction of the Haifa Mall and the Grand Canyon, Horev Center has lost a lot of its luster. A few years ago Horev center underwent a face lift, floor after floor the shops were closed and the place was renovated. Some of the shops went out onto Horev Street itself, some moved to Panorama, some were closed, but today the center of Horev looks charming, a small, neighborhood mall with specialty stores.

Gan Yitzhak in Moriah

Gan Yitzhak is a very well-invested amusement park. Beyond slides and swings\ it also has public toilets, which is not a common thing in this city. In the afternoon, parents and children enjoy the kindergarten and buy snacks at the nearby grocery store and coffee at one of the nearby cafes. In the evenings teenagers come to this garden and do what teenagers do in amusement parks...

The nightingale rebel

Mord Zamir, besides being a tiny street, is also the name of a book by Gabriel Zoran, which describes the experiences of a family on Mount Carmel in Haifa in 1956. To me personally, the name of the street reminds me very much of the well-known book "Don't touch Zamir" by Harper Lee, but there is no link.

Joseph Memorial School

In the Yosef Memorial School, students from Ahozeh and Ramat Eshkol study and these children have parents who are very involved in their education. For many, many years, the school was run by Esti Shahar, and everyone was happy. But one day Shahar retired and was replaced by another principal, who apparently did not see eye to eye with the parents. As an education reporter, these were undoubtedly good times for me, the parents turned to the media left and right and did not stop until there was no choice left, but to replace the principal. I remember the first and only conversation I had with her replacement. I asked her if she was not afraid to run such a school. She answered no, and really, since she took office everything has calmed down and is going smoothly.

who was Amadeus to the duke

First of all, we must mention the restaurant that was here before for many years, Amadeus. She was the equivalent of Mozart in Kiryat Motzkin. Amadeus was replaced by THE DUKE pub. I don't visit restaurants, but I think there aren't many pubs or restaurants in Haifa that offer such delicious food. Meat, fish, seafood, salads, everything is very, very delicious.

MoREE or MooreGod

Sderot Moriah was named after Mount Moriah, one of the nicknames for the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Like "Matyim", which betrays Jerusalemites, Sderot Moriah also makes it possible to distinguish between Haifaites and Haifaites. Haifaim put the accent (emphasis) in the middle of the word, while non-haifaim emphasize the end of the word. In the picture you can see the Greg Kitchen cafe, which is the more prestigious brother of the Greg cafe, and next to it the Kniber meat restaurant.

Dania and Reali

When I was a child there were two words in Haifa that I couldn't stand: Dania and Reali. I'm not a girl anymore. I know that it is impossible to compete with the percentage of eligibility for matriculation of the Reali and not with the percentage of students who graduate with 5 credits of mathematics, and there is still something that arouses antagonism in me. Perhaps it is the unimaginable delta between how Reali Beit Biram looks compared to the other schools in the city Neighboring the Carmel Castle and some of the kiriyas.) And at the same time, anyone who can afford it (or the hand of his parents) may send his child to any school he sees fit, of course.

Why rush...

Sometimes I arrive on Friday morning at Kiryat Safar Street, when parents from Rieli Azoza bring their children to school. This segment of "I arrive with my car at the entrance of the school and I park my car in the middle of the street and wait for my child to get off slowly, because there is no rush, I'm alone in the world, here he gets off, and then, still slowly, I start driving", this segment Anthropological for me. I stand and wait and wait and don't honk, because what will help me to honk.

It always seems to me that teaching in Reali Azoza and going up and down these endless stairs all day is really not easy for the teachers, especially since at the beginning we are 24 years old, but little by little we are getting older.

Smolenskin

Smolenskin Street is named after Peretz ben Yamin Smolenskin who was a writer and publicist, who believed that what unites the Jews is the Hebrew culture, history and language. He did not believe in religion but in nationalism.

"I was born in Carmel"

Carmel Medical Center named after Lady Davis belongs to General Health Services. Carmel has one and only one problem, there is no paid parking and paid parking is not always easy to find. All the streets near Carmel became a parking lot for visitors to the hospital. In Rambam there is a great coffee, in Bnei Zion the most beautiful view there is, from every window, and still, for me there was no hesitation and I gave birth to my daughters close to home, in Carmel. To this day we have some tiny leotard that we received at one of the births, which says that the girl was born in Carmel.

Disraeli

Disraeli Street was named after a Jewish convert British writer and statesman, who served twice as Prime Minister of Great Britain. The street is the continuation of Kfar Safar Street. Over the years, the street has been filled with construction evacuation projects and for over a decade you can't walk down it without seeing workers and trucks. The street is flat and within walking distance from the center of Horeb and slowly more and more retirees are buying apartments there. It became a nursing home without a common roof.

According to the Madeleine website, a new 4-room apartment (128 square meters), recently sold on Smolenskin Street, cost NIS 3.3 million. A one-room apartment (22 square meters) was sold on Disraeli Street for NIS 540. The average price per square meter is 16 thousand NIS.