The Haifa Municipality responded to the request of the "Yad Yad" community and announced its intention to build a school next to the Ahmadiyya school in Kabvir. Today, there is a wing at the Ahmadiyya school where students study on a bilingual track. The problem is that there is a great demand for the bilingual classes and the existing school cannot cater to all the parents who wish to enroll their children. The plan is that the construction of the school will take about two years.
On Wednesday, the Haifa Municipality informed the heads of the "Yad Yad" community that it intends to build a special building for a bilingual school, where there will also be a compulsory kindergarten. The municipality's announcement caused great joy, of course, in the members of the Yad Yad community. In the first years, the community established a garden that was run in Arabic and Hebrew. When the kindergarten started operating and attracted more and more people, the Yad Yad community began to think about the need for a school. The Yad Yad community appealed to the municipality in order to turn the garden into an urban garden and later to get a building for a growing school. In the first phase, two classrooms were opened in dilapidated buildings, which made it impossible to accommodate everyone who wanted to register for the next school year. The leaders of the community contacted the municipality and brought the data on the number of children who were registered for the next school year and will not be able to be admitted to the first grade in the bilingual track because it is not possible to open more than one first grade.
The municipality examined the data and announced that it will establish a bilingual school in the Kabvir neighborhood near the Ahmadiyya school. It should be noted that this year the school in the Samat moved to the Neve David neighborhood and the school building on Masada Street in Hadar remained vacant. Members of the Yad Yad community as well as residents in Hadar hoped to see the school building in the Samat provide a response to the bilingual school. Residents of Hadar hoped that just as the Aliyah Anthroposophical School in Beit Galim strengthened the neighborhood and became more than a school for the children and parents, so too a bilingual school in the heart of the Hadar neighborhood, where a mixed population lives, would become a neighborhood center and advance the children during school hours and after.
In the end, it was decided that a center for the enrichment of gifted students would be established on Masada Street, while the bilingual school would be built in the Kabbir neighborhood on the Carmel.
"Seven years ago we started working. The dream was even before that," she wrote Dr. Marev Ben Nun, one of the leaders of the community, "In 2012 we established and I managed the first nursery school, with 14 children, aged one and a half to two years. We began to present the idea to the Haifa Municipality...
And now, when we already have 90 children in kindergarten from 6 months to compulsory kindergarten, and another 50 children in grades XNUMX and XNUMX as a route within the school as the wonderful host, it was finally decided to establish a bilingual, urban school, from compulsory kindergarten to XNUMXth grade, with two classes per layer, which will help meet the huge demand for shared bilingual education in the city!
The recognition came after 7 years of leading the efforts of parent leaders and active community members - thinking and planning, doing and building and a lot of faith along the way - this achievement is a very special and significant moment. The excitement is enormous and the continuation of the work is still ahead of us."