(haipo) – Residents living on Sderot Hatzvi Street in Haifa were surprised to discover last night (Tuesday, 11/2/25) in the morning hours that work had begun on one of the buildings on the street, when it was determined that the building was designated for preservation. This is a building located at 27 Hatzvi Street, corner of 2 Alaniyot Street. The building, which was designed by the renowned architect Adolf Reding, is considered an architectural gem in the Bauhaus style and is on the city's list of buildings for preservation.
"Systematic destruction of buildings in Carmel"
Prof. Uzi Eliada, a resident of the area and one of the fiercest opponents of the works, expressed his frustration with what was being done: "I cannot accept the systematic destruction of buildings in Carmel. Today was truly the peak when work began on this beautiful Bauhaus building. This is one of the most impressive houses ever built in the country, and now I see that they have removed the vegetation and thrown away the doors. There is serious damage to the buildings for preservation here."
Damage to trees and infrastructure
About three weeks ago, residents reported development work on a nearby road, which resulted in damage to the old trees. According to reports, the work was carried out by the electric company and caused significant damage, and this was when the appropriate permits were not given to the nearby building at the time. Residents of the area claim that this is not unusual for damage to be done without prior warning and without being given the opportunity to object and stop the move.
"Supervisory authorities will accompany the process"
Deputy Mayor and Chairman of the Conservation Committee, Avihu Han, commented on the work at the site: "As soon as I was informed that renovations had begun in a building for conservation at a strict level, I instructed the director of the supervision department to examine the issue in depth. According to municipal policy, houses for conservation should be under constant supervision to ensure that the architectural values are preserved. Currently, the municipal supervision is monitoring the work, and will examine whether it is being done in accordance with the permits that were issued."
Deputy Mayor Sarit Golan Steinberg: "This is a supervised conservation project"
Deputy Mayor and Chairwoman of the Planning and Building Subcommittee, Sarit Golan Steinberg, explained that there is no intention to demolish the building: "This is a building for strict preservation. The permit for renovation was granted in accordance with municipal preservation guidelines, and the work is being done with the guidance of an architectural preservation consultant. Residents may believe that the building has been demolished, but in reality it is a process of strengthening and restoring the structure."
"Everything is done according to the law"
Hila and Nitai Friedman, the building's owners, addressed the residents' claims: "Our plan has been approved. We went through the entire legal process and received permits. Right now we are just making preparations in accordance with the guidelines. We understand the concerns, but this is a controlled renovation, not a demolition."
The future of conservation in Haifa – where to?
It is known that in Tel Aviv the Bauhaus is being preserved with extreme care, while in Haifa, more than once, the feeling arises that the construction processes threaten the city's architectural heritage. Will Haifa succeed in preserving its cultural assets, or, as has already happened in the past, is the city expected to lose buildings of historical value? Time will tell, and in any case, it is good to know that there are vigilant residents who care about the city's architectural heritage.
Greed is destroying the center of Carmel and the old trees. Every beautiful corner that once stood is quickly disappearing.
You are so right. All the changes to Carmel Hill are destroying the character of the unique environment.
Adolf's Bauhaus….. Hey, only people 70 and older are interested in these buildings in Haifa…
I say destroy everything!!!! and build new, modern towers in its place. Like in Chernikhovsky across from the military base, like in Neve David, like in the Yaffe Nof neighborhood, and like in Tirat Carmel.
Let's try to look a little like Tel Aviv and the modern coastal cities.
And personally, I want to sell my apartment in West Haifa for 3 million shekels.
And not for 1.6 million because they didn't build a luxury high-rise neighborhood in my neighborhood because of the 1924 Bauhaus that just happens to be there and is in the way.
Hahaha, you are crazy.
This is nothing new. I live in a house designed by S. Rozov, I had to really fight to save two facades (the other two did not). And now every floor looks different, a window here and a pipe there. All the beauty is gone. There is no preservation of the built heritage except for things like the old Technion. Not to mention the terrible burden of more and more apartment buildings on narrow 100-year-old streets, and that is a fact.
For the reporter's information:
Tonight, meaning "last night, on the evening of the previous day."
The concept of "last night in the morning" does not exist in Hebrew...
Yes indeed,
The destruction is evident at every site in the city of Haifa. The term "urban renewal" is ridiculous under these circumstances.
All the reactions are extremely angry.
A building for preservation has become a magnet
For the money-hungry and seemingly greedy
The building on Klaniot 2 is charming, Bauhaus in all its glory, and now it has been decided to "renovate" it and add patches to it.
"To the benefit" of the pockets of the building owners and the developer.
The Haifa Municipality, with its departments, is apparently giving a hand in the planned destruction of the building for preservation.
Such processes are present throughout the Carmel Range, whether in conservation structures or elsewhere.
The Carmel Range has long since lost its uniqueness,
The apartment owners purchased their apartments with the best of their money,
And now they live in a "jungle" of hundreds, no
justified in terms of their stability.
The wonderful nature has been taken away from the residents of Carmel, and for some time now
The so-called special Deer Avenue has become just another street, with massive tree removal for the benefit of the seemingly greedy.
How long will we be angry?
How long must we tolerate this?
Four more years?
The policy, if there is one, must stop immediately!!!!
Sad but every word is meaningful.
The Engineering Administration, and the developers, the contractors, and the planners, do not live in the Carmel Ridge neighborhoods. Have a lovely day and a happy Purim.
This municipality has completely destroyed the Carmel. There is nothing green. Small streets and crowded buildings that all look the same. Not even considering traffic and parking. Nothing is needed, just tall, ugly buildings.
Most of those involved in granting demolition and construction permits on the Carmel, both from within the Engineering Administration and the engineers, developers, contractors and planners, do not live in the Carmel Ridge neighborhoods.
Most of the apartment owners who enter the TAMA 38 project also do not live in apartments, but rather in the central area, and their apartments are occupied by tenants.
They don't feel the hardship firsthand and it doesn't interest them. Every morning they engage in demolition and logging on the Carmel and then go home.
Exactly, and that's the whole story.
Indeed, the destruction is felt at every site.
Haifa Municipality is a disgrace.
Sarit Golan Yona Yahav Avihu Han Put down the keys and go home.
The Conservation Department in the Haifa Municipality has not had a manager for several months (there was one before that who didn't understand her life either). And there are those who are taking advantage of this.
It is enough to read the residents' angry responses to this article to understand that the Haifa Municipality has long since transformed from a public servant into a public enemy.
Therefore, urgent, massive and intensive activity is required to remove the corrupt ruling clique that has taken over our beautiful city of Haifa and to immediately halt the criminal process that is causing the city's complete destruction.
Urgent organized activity is needed to establish a municipal action committee that will rise up with its head held high and raise the cry of the residents against the city's gang of criminals, in order to save the city or what is left of it.
The serious actions and actions being taken in the Haifa Municipality in complete violation of the law and without hindrance have long since become the domain of all citizens of the country.
Haifa has become a nationally known name in terms of normalizing urban crime, led by the guidance and full support of the failed municipal legal advice, with an emphasis on the legal advice of the Municipal Institute for Planning and Building in the Haifa Municipality, under the criminal leadership of Attorney S.W., whose place of residence is far from Haifa - she came from afar to destroy a city.
The deputy mayor and chairwoman of the Planning and Building Subcommittee who appears in the article quickly forgot her promises to stop the destructive TAMA 38 during the mayoral election campaign.
The city inspector would be kind enough to examine the construction irregularities that have allegedly been carried out over the years in the private apartment of the deputy mayor in question in the Carmelia neighborhood, and the way in which they were legalized. This is the deputy mayor who is leading the destructive, illegal construction in Haifa and who is heading towards the future mayor's chair.
Haifa. Haifa Haifa Free Kiryat Shmuel and Chaim from the strangulation you sucked, you drank, you ate, you chewed, and they are more broken than their big sister.
And the cancer, oh the cancer
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My city of the past, how good it is that I haven't lived there in years. What a gem it could have been. All I read about it and hear about it from the residents is disdain for the past, pushing as many buildings as possible in places where there is no longer room to expand and build, traffic congestion that shames the citizen who pays property taxes, and in general - he was mayor for 16 years and left because nothing was done according to the residents, only the property taxes were crazy in the sky. What did you think when you brought Yahav back, that something would suddenly change?
Extremely superficial journalistic work. The job of a journalist is not to bring opinion A and then bring opinion B and that's it. That's something even a high school student can do. A journalist should go and report on the true architectural value of this beautiful building (not in the article) and check the plans for exactly what is expected (not in the article) and when (not in the article). And what the impact will be on the environment and the neighborhood (not in the article). Quoting neighbors and saying "worried and angry" is not news - it's gossip.
Critical thinking.
Uncompromising information transfer.
integrity.
Unbiased opinions.
In-depth reporting and criticism of the matter while giving due weight to every opinion, even unpopular ones.
I recommend it to each and every one of you.
It's a commercial newspaper with advertisements... quality - it's best not to have it in it, otherwise it will be suspected of calling for rebellion.
Opinion B in the face.
Opinion C: On the contrary.
Opinion 4 to 9 – if you wish and believe there too.
Not exactly the visions (in plural – yes, yes) of the proliferation of knowledge and the cultivation of academia for the people residing in Zion.
Critical thinking.
Uncompromising information transfer.
integrity.
Unbiased opinions.
In-depth reporting and criticism of the matter while giving due weight to every opinion, even unpopular ones.
I recommend it to each and every one of you.
It's a commercial newspaper with advertisements... What do you expect? They have no budgets. A limited staff. Quality - it's best not to be in it, otherwise it will be suspected of calling for rebellion.
Opinion B in the face.
Opinion C: On the contrary.
Opinion 4 to 9 – if you wish and believe there too.
Not exactly the visions (in plural – yes, yes) of the proliferation of knowledge and the cultivation of academia for the people residing in Zion.
Critical thinking.
Uncompromising information transfer.
integrity.
Unbiased opinions.
In-depth reporting and criticism of the matter while giving due weight to every opinion, even unpopular ones.
I recommend it to each and every one of you.
It's a commercial newspaper with advertisements... What do you expect? They have no budgets. A limited staff. Quality - it's best not to be in it, otherwise they will suspect the call to March.
Opinion B in the face.
Opinion C: On the contrary.
Opinion 4 to 9 – if you wish and believe there too.
Not exactly the visions (in plural – yes, yes) of the proliferation of knowledge and the cultivation of academia for the people residing in Zion.
The contractors completely control the local committee.
If Sarit and Avihu don't align themselves with the whims of the contractors, then Y.Y. will fire them from their positions.
He is with a whip on them to be fired or replaced by the committee.
Then we have to confirm all the plans with the terrorists.
Sderot Hatzvi will be completely demolished by greedy contractors
It is already clear to everyone.
Also at Arlozorov 60, the Bauhaus building will soon be subject to building regulations. It's a shame they don't preserve the Bauhaus architecture, which is a cultural value and must be preserved.
Please develop the submitted plans and examine the connection between the existing building and the future.
And the conservation plan.
There is permission to build a modern monster,
It has nothing to do with preservation and history.
The conservation wall and the garden do not appear at all in the new plan.
They are also subject to strict conservation according to the conservation file.
So what kind of conservation?
Ms. Golan will save money.
From public funds and abolish the conservation department in the municipality, it does nothing!!! Certainly not conservation!
This is the problem: a bureaucracy of ordinary workers (some of whom are probably talented, bored, and discouraged) who are (all) more anxious about their jobs than pleasing the public.
Agenda proposal:
1. Solutions??
2. Permanent??
3. Who took our little bulletin board?
of the agenda???
Possible solution: Disconnecting the municipality
From politics and turning it into a non-profit business: employees will be rewarded while closely scrutinizing donors (grateful city residents and business people who donate their time and money).
2. Yes (confidential).
3. It's always the same Itzik and he tries to sell it at a gray stall at the flea market for free with every purchase. Shall we go? There's a pile of completely identical boards there.
The Haifa Municipality is determined to destroy the city. It is one of the most beautiful cities there is. And they are systematically uprooting gardens and demolishing beautiful and inspiring structures. For them, the profit line is everything and they have no restraints. The Haifa Municipality has turned itself into a kind of invader and a member of a gang of entrepreneurs and architects who lack basic decency and talent. Their actions border on crime. In the most fundamental sense of the word.
Clearly, the decency for above-ground parking should be to give the developer a piece of cake instead of demanding underground parking.
And demand that gardens and trees be left to shade the street.
This municipality is engaging in urban destruction, not urban renewal.
Also at 9 Hayarkon Street, work is underway on a beautiful building for preservation. The building plans were not shown to the residents of the house😡😡😡
The loyal reader well expressed the municipality's apparent helplessness over its departments.
His words are so serious and worrying, and nothing changes. On the contrary, as residents of the city, we are exposed to facts concerning the city that do not give us peace.
A pitiful inaction by a spineless municipality in the face of the central cities.
Instead of enforcing maintenance on apartment owners, they are being allowed to destroy them.
Low-level architects design concrete monsters on top of the ruins of works
An architectural masterpiece.
All that's left is to escape from here.
right
You can really trust the municipal building preservation officers.
1. The existing building "for strict preservation" at 27 Hatzvi Blvd. is left without a trace in the planned new building. The building has expanded in all directions, a lower floor has been added, and 2 upper floors have also been added. Would this be called preserving a "building for strict preservation"?!
2. Additional examples of failed urban preservation:
A. Vitkin 11 – a building for preservation that was entrusted with "architectural protection" by a preservation expert, who gave up in the face of what was happening in the building – the results of the protection for preservation: the building was completely demolished and rebuilt within the framework of TAMA 38, while performing "conservation" manipulations.
B. Vitkin 9 – a building for preservation – was recently approved by the New City Engineer for demolition and construction under TAMA 38!!
3. It is not clear how to dig under the existing building from 1938 to add a floor. It is not clear how to add 2 floors to the existing building – is the engineer in charge of the new building's skeleton well aware of the problematic constructive design?! Does the new building, consisting of the old building and the new extensive additions, meet the required earthquake standard – highly doubtful!! An urgent inspection by a skilled external constructor is required!
4. How can we trust the Municipal Engineering Administration and the engineers at its disposal, when existing buildings that were approved for a building permit and published within the framework of TAMA 38 were "calculated" to not be earthquake-resistant, when in the static calculations attached to the permit application, a "plasticine structure" was included instead of a concrete structure?!
5. Where are the levels of credibility, morality, shame, public integrity and upholding of the law of the municipal legal counsel and the local committee's attorney, Attorney S.W., who is careful to invent personal private laws and regulations, which knowingly approve defective building permits on false and fraudulent engineering infrastructure?!
6. The strenuous work of the chairman of the Planning and Building Subcommittee quoted in this article is reflected in the widespread distribution of TAMA 38 in Carmel and the complete destruction of the existing construction fabric within the ancient grove of trees, trees that are being cut down without restraint and without any urban planning and contrary to the instructions of the Ministry of Agriculture!?
7. Egregious municipal failure is evidently proven at all senior levels of the municipality in the field of urban construction!!
8. Colombia is here!!
The response of a loyal reader is important to understand what is happening.
Crazy commenters! Did you read the article?
They have a building permit. From the previous term in general…
Did you open the permit?
What towers? What evacuation and construction?
If the neighbor hadn't noticed... you were really laughing.
Now they understand the destruction, they see the destruction of the city in one term, there is no justice and no judge. All that matters is more and more towers. There is no value in beauty and uniqueness. Tourists will not come to see ugly shacks. But the main thing is to build hotels on every possible corner. Because it is easiest to destroy what brings tourists and think that they will come to Haifa. A poor joke
You're right, the beautiful, green rural Haifa is being lost, we'll be left with concrete monsters, it hurts,
Even buildings for preservation are not really preserved.
I spent a lot of time in this house during my childhood. The house belonged to a professor from the Technion, Nehemiah Aharon, and his wife Thea, who was the head midwife at Rothschild Hospital. Their daughter Hagit was my age and my best friend for many years. There were pine cones in the yard and we would crack them with great pleasure. The house itself had special corners and a lot of a Yakut atmosphere. A lovely place.
A fucking municipality! If the neighbor hadn't noticed, they would have continued to demolish. A building under strict conservation should not have been touched without the approval of the authorities responsible for the conservation, there should have been a detailed plan. What a city of incompetents that lets Hadar crumble with all the beautiful buildings there. This mayor just wants to please his guys.
And I wouldn't be surprised if construction on 27 Hatzvi Blvd. is evacuated... a prestigious and sought-after area where developers can make millions. It would be worth it for them to build without permits and pay fines. The apartment buyers will finance it and sit under their vines and fig trees in their apartment, which will be built on the building for preservation.