Ahuza is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, and it offers quiet living alongside a busy thoroughfare:
Ahuza neighborhood is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city. It was established in the 20s of the last century by the "Herbert Samuel Estate" company, which was established in Romania in 1920 in order to build a neighborhood in the city, hence its name.
The first school on the ridge is "Ahuza Zichron Yosef", established in 1927 (on Sderot Sinai Street). During the 30s, the neighborhood was developed by immigrants from Germany who, among other things, also paved Rupin Road.
| Ahuza neighborhood in Haifa - orientation map:
| Romema neighborhood boundaries:
The neighborhood stretches between Ramat Golda in the south, Carmelia in the north, and the Carmel Cliff in the west, which creates a natural border, crossed only by the Freud road. Moriah Boulevard (which turns into Horev Street and Abba Khushi Boulevard) also forms a border to the neighborhood. Underneath the ruin are the old and new Romema, which are already a neighborhood in themselves.
Next to the Ahuza neighborhood there is also the Shambor neighborhood, the Margalit streets, Netiv Ofakim, Yarakon and more, although few know about the separation between the neighborhoods.
| Air pollution in the Ahuza neighborhood:
In terms of air pollution, the neighborhood is located on Horev, and hence the streets west of the road are considered less polluted and those who live below the road (to the east) carry more and more polluted air, apparently (this theory has never been officially proven). Despite the proximity to the busy road, most of the housing units in the neighborhood are located in quiet streets and the quality of life is considered relatively high.
There are many playgrounds in the neighborhood, most of them shaded. There are several synagogues. One of them is on Horev Street 7, a Reform synagogue, where there is no separation between men and women (there is no women's help), so many residents of the neighborhood choose to have a bar mitzvah there (since the family can sit together). The old Carmel Hospital, built in 1945 at Horev Street 2, is also located in the neighborhood.
| Transportation in Romema neighborhood
The neighborhood has severe traffic jams, especially in the morning. From 7:30 there is very heavy traffic around the center of Horeb. There are traffic jams in both Pika and Gat Street every morning, and the difficulty only intensifies when you cross the intersection and continue towards Safar Square. Despite a variety of alternative solutions, which the municipality has put in place for the benefit of those whose children are in the municipal gardens at the beginning of Horev Street, most parents naturally choose to stop their car near the garden, so the right lane is permanently blocked from 7:50 a.m. Sending a spacecraft to Mars is possible, but solving this problem is impossible.
The Carmel Medical Center is also located in the neighborhood, which has a paid parking lot, and many of the patients and visitors are still looking for cheaper parking and occupy every permitted and non-permitted parking space around the hospital.
| Real Estate
Due to the size of the neighborhood, there is considerable variation between the prices of the apartments. According to the Madeleine table, a second-hand apartment will cost an average of NIS 1,466,000 (3 rooms), NIS 1,561,000 (4 rooms) and NIS 1,868,000 (5 rooms). . A new 4-room apartment will cost 2,002,000 NIS and a 5-room apartment 2,598,000 NIS.
In the estate neighborhood you can find potential for urban renewal. Many of the houses were built before 1980 and allow TMAs, and all that remains is that the tenants in the building will be interested in embarking on such a project and that there will be a contractor or entrepreneur, who will be interested in taking part in the project (meaning that the project will have economic feasibility).
| Moriah Axis
The neighborhood has a large variety of cafes, pubs and restaurants alongside shops. One of the favorite debates of the city's residents is the debate as to whether the axis is dead or alive, and as the variety of debaters, the variety of answers. In practice, there are cafes and pubs that have been around for many, many years, such as Silva, Mandarin, Cinta Bar, Sassoon Bar, and more, and there are places that open and close alternately.
It was recently announced that the old clothing store, which opened on Mapo Street 26 years ago, "Pesi", is going to close soon. The store, like many stores along the Moriah axis, has suffered from the fact that many residents have been shopping in malls in recent years and from the parking problem in the neighborhood. On Moriah Street you can find more shops and businesses that suffer from another problem - high property taxes.
| Horeb center
One of the main places in the neighborhood is the Horev center, which opened in the 80s and recently underwent a facelift. Horev Center is the second mall in Haifa (the first was Panorama in the Carmel Center) and therefore has few parking spaces, compared to the modern malls and the area of the mall itself is also not large. After the reopening it was possible to see that some of the old stores remained in the mall after the years of renovation, and new stores were also opened.
| Education
A number of schools operate in the estate neighborhood.
The old elementary school in the day is a mansion Memory of Yosef, which was founded in 1927. The school was managed for many years by Esti Shahar and about two years ago a new director arrived at the school. The number of students at the school is small this year.
Reali Ahoza: The school was established in 1937, and students in grades XNUMX-XNUMX study there. The Carmel tribe has been using this school building for its daily activities for decades. You can reach the school from Disraeli Street or from the Harel Division (the lower part of the school, the old Romema). On Friday afternoons, when parents come to pick up the children, the traffic congestion on Harel Street and the amount of jeeps, which block the traffic until the child arrives and gets into the car, is unreasonable and leads to many complaints and an expectation for an adequate transportation response from the Haifa Municipality.
Upon reaching middle school, the students continue to one of the six-two-year schools: Urban God, Alliance or Reali Beit Biram. There are shuttles from the neighborhood to the six- to two-year schools, and because of the distance between the residences and the educational institutions, some of the students even receive travel funding from the Ministry of Education.
| Challenges - an estate neighborhood in Haifa
Construction of additional roads that will serve as exits from the neighborhood (during rush hours and emergencies): Apart from the Freud road that connects the Ahuza neighborhood to the southern entrances of the city, there is no connection that can help the residents on a daily basis and in emergency situations. If anything could be learned from the fire in the city in November last year, it is that when a neighborhood has several access roads, in an emergency the chance of a quick rescue of the neighborhood's residents is high. After the fire, Mayor Yona Yahav announced his intention to ensure a double exit from the neighborhoods in the city, so that a disaster does not occur in the next emergency situation. In practice, at the current stage, funding for the construction of the roads has not yet been received.
| Lincoln Hills - a new neighborhood in planning to the west of the estate
According to plans in various stages of approval, many more residential units will be built in the slopes of the Ahuza neighborhood. Below Harofeh and Lincoln streets, a neighborhood (Lincoln Slopes) will be built within a few years. The lands have been sold, but the buyers have not been given a commitment as to when construction will begin or when the units will be occupied. Building the neighborhood will not be easy because of the sharp slope, which will greatly increase the cost of construction and development, and it is not clear how viable it is for the contractors.
Similar to Lincoln Hills, a number of similar neighborhoods planned in the city of Haifa are not built, as the economic feasibility is not clear. The problem is that these lands have owners, some of the lands have been marketed and sold in recent years. There are lands that have been owned by neighboring companies or private hands for decades. It will be interesting to see if construction will actually begin in the coming years. Especially when the number of residents in Haifa has not increased in the last decade, which means that there is no great demand for apartments which is a catalyst for construction.
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