Rehavia

Rehavia

Rehavia (also Rechavia) ( _he. רחביה) is an upscale Jerusalem neighborhood located between the city center and Talbiya.

History

Rehavia was established in the late 1920s on real estate previously owned by the Greek Orthodox Church purchased by the Israel Land Development Company in 1922. The ILDC hired architect Ricard Kaufmann, a German Jew, to design the neighborhood as a "garden neighborhood" to be modeled after the garden cities of Europe, with an emphasis on the International Style popular at the time. [http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1990_1999/1999/7/Focus+on+Israel-+Jerusalem+-+Architecture+in+the+B.htm?DisplayMode=print]

The first phase, called Rehavia A, was bordered by King George Street to the east, Ramban Street to the south, Ussishkin Street to the west, and Keren Kayemet Street to the north. To preserve the quiet character, the neighborhood association allowed commercial businesses only on the two main roads at the neighborhood's edges. The roads open to traffic were deliberately built narrow, to keep them less busy and thus quieter. The main, tree-lined boulevard which bisected the neighborhood was open to pedestrian traffic only. Later expansion was primarily to the south, in the direction of Gaza Street.

When the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie was exiled from Ethiopia in 1936, he lived on Alharizi Street. Rehavia became known as a neighborhood of upper-class Ashkenazi Jews, home to professors and intellectuals, particularly émigrés from Germany. Many of the country's early leaders lived in Rehavia: David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, who lived on Ben Maimon street; [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/968877.html ] Zionist leader Arthur Ruppin; Menachem Ussishkin, head of the Jewish National Fund; Golda Meir, Israel's fourth prime minister; Daniel Auster, the first Jewish mayor of Jerusalem, and philosophers Hugo Bergmann and Gershon Scholem. [http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1990_1999/1999/7/Focus+on+Israel-+Jerusalem+-+Architecture+in+the+B.htm?DisplayMode=print] Among the government ministers who made their home in Rehavia were Dov Joseph and Yosef Burg.

Landmarks

Landmarks buildings in Rehavia include the headquarters of the Jewish Agency for Israel, the windmill on Ramban Street, and the Ratisbonne Monastery. Gymnasia Rehavia, the country's second modern high school (after Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv) was built on Keren Kayemet Street in 1928. Yitzhak Ben Zvi, who was to become the second president of Israel, and his future wife, Rachel Yanait, were teachers there. [http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1990_1999/1999/7/Focus+on+Israel-+Jerusalem+-+Architecture+in+the+B.htm?DisplayMode=print] In the center of historic Rehavia is Yad Ben-Zvi, a research institute established by Ben-Zvi. Jason's Tomb was discovered during construction work on Alfasi Street.

treet names

Most of Rehavia's streets are named after Jewish scholars and poets from the Golden Age of Jewish culture in Spain. Among them are Abarbanel, Ben Maimon, Ibn Ezra and Ramban. [ [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/792509.html A walk across Jerusalem history - Haaretz - Israel News ] ]

References

Notable residents

*Chaim Potok
*Aron Brand
*David Flusser
*Moshe Goshen-Gottstein
*Avraham Burg
*Moshe Greenberg
*Else Lasker-Schuler
*Miriam Yalan-Shteklis
*Teddy Kollek
*Benjamin Netanyahu


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