(live here) – Dozens of graduates of their generations, educators and other participants came to mark the festive birthday of the old school in Haifa.
On Monday 23/12/24, a celebratory event was held in the auditorium of the "Hogis" school to mark its 90th anniversary. The event was attended by dozens of school graduates, former principals, and other guests who celebrated together the glorious history of the legendary educational institution.
The school, which was established in 1934 in the Hadar Carmel neighborhood at the initiative of immigrants from Germany, has since become a significant milestone in Haifa education. He became known as a pioneer in combining the values of the Jewish-European culture with the values of the new Hebrew education. Today, the school operates in a modern campus on Leon Blum Street, where about 1,300 students study, and it continues to lead in a global educational vision that combines local and international values.
Over the years, the school's students have participated in unique educational projects in Israel and around the world, such as studying Judaism in Boston, Holocaust study trips in Poland and Germany, and an exhibition in China. Recently, the school is planning a new educational project with Taiwan, as part of its commitment to fostering global citizenship.
She spoke during the event Yehudit Yanai, The daughter of Yair Katz - the first director of the school - who told about the vision of the founding generation. Prof. Avi Avraham Ben Zvi, a graduate of the school and laureate of the Israel Prize, spoke about the institution's contribution to shaping his professional and personal identity.
Mayor of Haifa, Yona Yahav, a graduate of the school himself, also participated in the event and told about his personal connection to the institution. Yahav shared a personal memory of his math teacher, Zvi Bar Ziv, who helped him discover his skills and was a source of inspiration for him. "The 'Hogis' school is an example of quality education based not only on grades, but on identifying the talent and potential of each student."
The director of the school, Milena Maron, concluded: "Being a 'Hogist' is a great pride. Since its establishment, the school has educated values, Zionism and solidarity, and today we add to this principles of community, relevance and choice".
The Hogi school continues to innovate and create a significant educational impact in Haifa and beyond, while maintaining its glorious heritage.
The worst math teacher was Bar Ziv. Insults in students. Does not explain and demands that you understand what he is talking about. Today there would not be a minute left. We were a generation whose parents were always right.
It's a shame they didn't share with all the graduates in this important event.
I was thrown out of there in the eleventh grade. Today I am a doctor with eight books and tenure at the university. Unfortunately, I do not identify with a single word written in the article.
The decline of the school began in the days of Deborah Ezra. As we know, the more you collapse the system, the more you are promoted to the top (according to Herzi Halevi) and that's how she became the inspector of the Ministry of Education.
After her came Nitsa Tal who did her best to repair Deborah Ezra's circus but the school had already lost its assets and prestige as soon as it was owned by the municipality which neglected the school in every possible sense. infrastructures. Teachers. Enrichment programs. The school looked like one big prison.
Two blocks of buildings and a prison yard in the middle. They tried to fix it, but the roof collapsed, like everything that collapsed during the Nitza Tal era. Good teachers left and disturbed students entered who were later filtered into schools
Professionals. Those who remained graduated one of two: the new immigrants studied computers and mathematics, 5 units graduated as hi-tech and computer engineers, and the older Israeli children studied in a theoretical major and all graduated as lawyers or real estate brokers in Carmel. Such paving.
Then came Sharon Klujani and the remnants of what was left to function, which collapsed even more until there was a real fear of the complete closure of the school. Achievements dropped, the good teachers who still survived retired, entire programs that survived Ezra and Tal simply disappeared. Budgets dried up. trends have been eliminated.
Only the need to evict David Yelin, the Haifa real estate baron, caused him to invest in classes to push David Yelin and the abandoned us to classes, a new campus, and it is also full of failures without a sports hall and more.
Today it is a middle school and below.
Kudos to the "Hogi" school in Haifa for its 90th birthday. Good and blessed evening to all
In my opinion, classes have produced the most high-tech people and lawyers in the entire world per person. It's every second graduate there or some high tech entrepreneur in Israel and around the world or a lawyer or both together. Especially the cycles of the 90s with the large immigration from Russia. Every half is high tech and computers.
Yehudit Yanai was also a teacher and educator at the school and raised many generations of students
Most of the graduates were surprised that there was a conference to mark 90 years without them knowing. The previous conference in the congress hall to mark 70 years of Bihas was properly publicized and was indeed well attended by graduates
90 years too much
What fun to see my teacher from the 80's Yehudit Yanai. Looking great and clear as ever
I don't know how the school is run today, but I state with certainty that in 2018 it was run in an indecent way, to say the least. The principal of the middle school whose name I can't remember won over the bad conduct. I really hope he is not there.