Hadar HaCarmel

Coordinates: 32°48′28″N 34°59′53″E / 32.80778°N 34.99806°E / 32.80778; 34.99806
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Central Hadar with Herzl Street crossing through the right-hand corner of the image and Binyamin Garden visible to the left

Hadar HaCarmel (

Arabic) is a district of Haifa, Israel. Located on the northern slope of Mount Carmel between the upper and lower city overlooking the Port of Haifa and Haifa Bay
, it was once the commercial center of Haifa.

Etymology

The name of the neighborhood is derived from a verse in Isaiah 35:2.[1]

History

Binyamin Park in 1933

Hadar HaCarmel was founded before World War I. Shmuel Pevzner was one of the founders of the neighborhood and head of its development committee in 1922-1927.[2]

By 1944, most of Haifa's 66,000 Jewish residents lived in the district.[3] Haifa's city hall, courthouse and government buildings were located in Hadar, but relocated to the lower city (Downtown) in the turn of the 21st century.[4]

Hadar has historically been characterized as a Jewish immigrant neighbourhood with many Holocaust survivors settled in the area, and in the early 1990s when many newcomers from the former Soviet Union were first absorbed there.

Landmarks

The

Beit HaGefen, an Arab
–Jewish cultural center and AlMeidan Arab-language Theater.

Demography

Hadar HaCarmel has roughly 37,200 residents, accounting for 14% of Haifa's population. It is a neighborhood in flux with a large percentage of new

Haifa Theatre

According to the official division by the Haifa municipality,

Haredi and the latter predominantly Arab and Russian
.

References

  1. ^ Vilnai, Ze'ev (1974). "Hadar-Hacarmel". Ariel Encyclopedia (in Hebrew). Vol. 2. Tel Aviv, Israel: Am Oved. p. 1794.
  2. ^ Samuel Joseph Pevzner
  3. ^ Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel, edited by Raphael Patai, Herzl Press/McGraw Hill, New York, 1971, "Haifa," vol. 1, pp. 448–449.
  4. ^ a b Shani Shilo (18 February 2008). "Neighborhood renewal, or urban waste?". Haaretz. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  5. ^ a b Haifa Municipality website.
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See also

32°48′28″N 34°59′53″E / 32.80778°N 34.99806°E / 32.80778; 34.99806