"Hogis" high school, currently located at 9 Leon Blum St., is a six-year elementary school in Haifa attended by about 1500 students.
Brief history
The school was founded in 1934, in Hadar HaCarmel, at the initiative of a group of German parents from the Fifth Aliyah. They wanted to establish an educational framework for teaching the Hebrew language and the values of Israeli culture and at the same time to pass on to the younger generation the cultural values of Central European Jewry. The studies were conducted in small study groups - study groups - and this is also the source of the school's name - "classes". At first, the studies were conducted on the balcony of botanist Ruth Kopel's house, at 17 Masada Street. After a short time, the school moved to "Beit Itin", at 9 Barzilai St. and then to "Beit Hakim" at 30 Herzliya St. S was Yair Katz.
After 5 years of being founded, in 1939, the school already had about 200 students and it moved again, this time to a larger place, at 3 Pevzner Street.
In 1949, during the War of Independence, all 14th graders were drafted into the IDF and fought in the battles to liberate Haifa. That same year, the construction of a new building for the school began, at XNUMX Yeshuron St., according to the plans of the architect Yohanan Ratner, later dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the Technion and designer of the building of the Faculty of Aeronautics on the Neve Shanan campus.
In light of an increase in the number of students, in 2017, construction began on a new building for the school, at 9 Leon Blum St., according to the plans of the ministry Gordon Architects Ltd.
The new building
The school's new campus covers an area of about 18 dunams. The building includes 3 wings connected by covered corridors: the wing of the upper division (named after Yair and Alan Katz), the wing of the middle school (named after Rachel Tamoki) and the management wing.
The complex includes 48 classrooms, 14 modern laboratories, a library, an auditorium, a sports hall and a canteen. In the outdoor area, there are the ceremony square and covered seating areas. About 1500 students are currently studying in the new campus.
יIr Katz (1904-1964), the first director
Yair Katz, the first director of "Hogis" was born in Vilnius and studied in Germany and the USA. In 1928 he immigrated from the USA to the head of Gerin Halutzim and was among the founders of Kibbutz Ramat Yochanan.
In 1934 he moved to live in Haifa at the request of a group of immigrants from Germany who initiated the opening of the Hogi school in Hadar HaCarmel. Alongside Yair Katz was his wife, Ellen Raya Katz (1912-1995), who served in a variety of positions at the school: pedagogical secretary, treasurer, nurse and educational consultant.
Gordon Architects Ltd., the planners of the building
Odi Gordon, born in Haifa (1941), graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Technion in 1967. In 1970 he opened his independent office. In 1977 the firm became a planning company named "Gordon Architects and Urban Planners Ltd."
In recent years, the firm has expanded by adding a number of associate architects. The staff, numbering about 75 employees, includes architects, urban planners, interior designers and engineers. Over the years, the firm has won many awards in various architectural competitions.
Among the projects planned in Haifa are, besides the "Hogis" high school buildings: the "Hafaretz" cable car station, the "Hoof HaCarmel" train station, the "Hafaretz Central" train station and the "Segol" shopping mall in Rambam Hospital.
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Among those who studied in the class of educator Baruch Kurzweil were Dalia Ravikovitz and Amos Tversky, who was Daniel Kahneman's partner but died before he could receive the Nobel Prize. (Both on the right side of the class photo)
The landscape planning of the new building was carried out by the Miller-Bloom office led by Amir Bloom who is a 1976 graduate of the classes.
Yehudit Yanai, daughter of the Hatzim
Judit Yanai
Probably the daughter of the trees
The teacher and later the principal of the classes will be the embodiment of the evil that exists on earth
She had someone to learn from. Ellen was a super witch. The Golden Broom Award at the World Witches Convention…
I totally agree, I loved Yehudit Yanai Atsila.
I am a graduate of classes, I remember the "old" building, the spaces in it, its relation to Yeshuron Street and the slope to the topography of Huadi....humble, efficient and inclusive, most of the teachers are imbued with European culture which they instilled in us. The sketches of the new building look violent, want to demonstrate "specialness", formality for its own sake, it's a shame that the management initiated and chose the same plan
Thank you for your response. Although the section deals with the story of the building, the information you bring deserves to be brought to the public's attention in any way. Shabbat Shalom
"Great school"... Not long ago there was a case that was not published because it is not convenient to publish the truth. A student rapes a female student. Most of the children smoke. A student stabs another student.
An article is missing in part..how from 1949 there is a jump to 2017....what about most of the years that the main educational activity of Bihas was at 14 Yeshuron St. which became after the death of Dr. Yair Katz St. Yair Katz (which the writer also forgot to mention..detail important), and also to mention the school teachers, some of whom were famous researchers, such as Prof. Baruch Quartzvil.
Thank you for your response. Please note that the building on Level 14 is definitely mentioned, including a planner. Yair Katz is also mentioned as the first manager. Although the section focuses on the stories of the buildings and not the individuals, I agree that it was appropriate to mention Prof. Kurzweil. The wrong will be righted.
How do you forget that the failed mayor of Haifa built the Hogis only so that his friend Gad Zeevi would loot David Yelin and build towers there. And opened the new classes for 4 years without a sports hall!!!!
The elderly in Haifa hate children
They prefer that as many schools as possible be closed
That's why they re-elected Y.Y. The failure, who will drive young people away with insane property taxes.
A third of the education in the city is private = only for the rich. And another third in schools without sports halls and without libraries and without sufficient protected spaces.
Investing a billion shekels in an infrastructure tunnel for the polluting factories and not investing in a sports hall for a new school or in public shelters in neighborhoods without shelters. This is the order of priorities in the city of Mayor Y.Y.