5 ,  November 2018 Dear Friends, For the past fifteen years I have had the privilege of serving the city of Haifa both as Mayor and as Chairman of the Haifa Foundation, and I look back with pride over my years of service. I was born and raised in Haifa so the city is very […]

  The Ofakim School is a school for students with complex physical disabilities (cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy) between the ages of 13 and 21. The school has approximately 100 students from Haifa and its surroundings. The school believes that students with physical disabilities need reinforcement in all aspects of their lives in an integrated […]

Dear Friends, As the Jewish New Year approaches we would like to take this opportunity to wish you all the very best for a happy, healthy and prosperous year for you and your families. The New Year is a time for reflecting on the past year as well as being a time for embarking upon […]

Newsletter #3 – Spring 2018 Dear Friends, Our work is never done and we like it! We doubt there is a better and more encouraging way to introduce our Spring 2018 Newsletter than to admit to our delight in always having dreams and exciting plans for Haifa’s future. Spring brings renewal and liberty, which is […]

Nine kindergartens were damaged in the fires that raged through Haifa last month. But now thanks to The Iranian American Jewish Federation of New York one of those kindergartens is being renovated so that the children, who have been sent to other facilities in the meantime, can return to their home school. This is just […]

Haifa, Israel’s third largest city, suffered a tremendous blow this weekend, the third in the last decade. After the Second Lebanon War, in 2006, paralyzed the city for long days and Hezbollah’s missile which destroyed homes and after citizens finished licking their wounds from the Carmel disaster in 2010, Haifa residents will now try to […]

Last week wildfires that had been plaguing other areas of the country reached the city limits of Haifa where it burned acres of trees and destroyed apartment buildings as well as making many others uninhabitable. 60,000 residents were evacuated from their homes; 1600 remain homeless. Many have returned but more than 500 apartments are still […]

Beit Mainz is located in the heart of the cultural strip in the center of the Carmel known as the French Carmel. It is surrounded by museums, clubs, performance venues and open spaces. It is a popular place in the neighborhood serving residents of all ages. Many come to visit the library located on the entrance […]