A few days before the day of remembrance for the martyrs of Israel's systems and the victims of hostilities and the celebrations of the 75th Independence Day of the State of Israel, this is an appropriate time to dedicate words toThe Garden of Remembrance, which is located in front of the historic building of Haifa Municipality and overlooks the port and the lower city. The garden is intended to perpetuate the memory of the people of Haifa who fell in the War of Independence all over the country and those who fell in the battles to liberate the city.
the fortress of peace
The memorial garden was built above the fortress of peace, He Burj E-Salam, or in short The screw'. The fort was built by Dahr al-Omar, the independent ruler of the Galilee, in 1762. His role was to protect the new city he founded near old Haifa, which was in the area of today's Bat Galim.
The memorial
In February 1950 it was decided in the Haifa municipality to build a memorial monument and a garden in the Burj area, which was inaugurated in May 1953. At the front of the garden is a monument, designed by the artist Gershon Knispel. The monument combines three elements: a relief of Mount Carmel and the port of Haifa, a soldier lying on his back and a dove kneeling and grieving by his hand. Next to the soldier is a relief with the inscription 'Liberation of Haifa 588'. Memorial stones for battles and units that fought in the War of Liberation are scattered on the lawns of the garden.
Gershon Knispel
Gershon Knispel, born in Germany (1932 – 2018) was an Israeli painter and sculptor who worked in Israel and Brazil. Throughout his 60 years of artistic activity, he created drawings, prints, paintings and sculptures that earned him international recognition. While living in Haifa, he served as an artistic consultant to the municipality (1964-89). In those years, many of Knispel's works were placed in public spaces in Haifa, including a relief on the Paz Bridge, a relief on the front of the Sports Hall and the monument to the Jewish fighter in World War II.
May we be able to rise above the political differences and unite around the holy memory of the fallen!
Haha no political disputes - there is nothing in this garden except political disputes.
And in the place there will be a respectable spacious garden with a youth center, a community center, a music center or a museum next to it
So they named the "Public Service Center" that you can't get to, and it's just a name for the "Palace of Speakers and Public Relations"...
thank you for your response. In the garden itself, the memory of the fallen is not perpetuated according to political affiliation.
Thanks, we learned, it was very interesting. The city of Haifa is full of ancient treasures. Regarding the use of the place for political use, enough. We will keep our opinions at home. The cemeteries to go and respect them. The place doesn't belong to any party, so no one came out on top of the other. They deserve only respect from us. To all those who were killed for the sake of their homeland and were killed in all hostilities.
thank you for your response. On Remembrance Day it was proven that the majority did leave politics out of the cemeteries.
Despite the call for unity and not for political disputes on the day of remembrance for the martyrs of the IDF and the victims of terrorism. In Haifa, in Horev, they think differently and continue to divide and pathetically exploit the democratic stage. Shame shame shame.
In my opinion, anyone who seeks to exclude elected officials from ceremonies allows legitimacy to disintegrate the rule of law. These ceremonies are not the property of anyone, there is almost no person here in the country who does not have a relative or friend(s) of martyrs or victims of hostilities. The protests began back in the Bennett government, and are now being renewed And in my opinion, they will not stop in the future when there is (perhaps) another government here.
In my opinion, the message is that those who pray inside a cemetery/synagogue/holy places dishonor themselves and the spaces.
This is a collective and public memorial day and when it is such there is an obligation to conduct it with respect and restraint, and it is also possible otherwise, as our relatives do by going to the cemetery every year on the Hebrew day on which the soldier died.