Nave Sha'anan (, ) is a large residential neighborhood in eastern Haifa, Israel that extends from the lower inclines of Mount Carmel to midway across its slopes. The main campus of the Technion university is located in the outskirts of Nave Sha'anan.The Technion American Medical Students Program

Its name is one of the many traditional "Names of Jerusalem", and is based on a verse in the Isaiah: "Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down".

History

Nave Sha'anan was founded in 1922 Haifa: Transformation of an Arab Society 1918-1939, May Seikaly as an isolated rural neighbourhood on the Carmel mountain with typical one storey family homes, some of which can still be glimpsed here and there. During the 60s and the 70s the neighbourhood gradually transformed into its present urban form. In recent years it is undergoing a rapid process of renovation and replacement of older homes by new high rise residential blocks.

Demography

In 2021, Nave Sha'anan proper had a population of 44,100, accounting for 15% of the city's total population. However, it is common to refer to the entire area surrounding Nave Sha'anan by the same name, and in that case the population is greater than 80,000, constituting the largest Israeli "single" neighbourhood.

Economics and Transportation The significant Grand Canyon shopping mall is located in Neve Sha'anan (the name is a play on words, since means "mall" in Hebrew, and the mall is located in a canyon).

In recent years Nave Sha'anan came to house a major transportation hub in the wider Haifa area. The construction of the Carmel Tunnels, with a single exit point in Haifa just below Nave Sha'anan, and the recent opening of the Giborim road, creating another route from the Carmel neighbourhoods to downtown Haifa, brought Nave Sha'anan to the forefront of the Haifa traffic network.

Neve Sha'anan Quarters

Haifa Municipality divides Neve Sha'anan into two statistical quarters. Neve Sha'anan–Jezreeliya, the northern of the two quarters is in area, about 5% of the total jurisdictional area of Haifa. In 2008, the population of the district was 36,300 inhabitants, about 14% of the entire city. Ramot Neve Sha'anan, a cluster of neighborhoods south of the Neve Sha'anan–Jezreeliya, is in area, about 6% of the total urban area. In 2015, its population was 21,500 inhabitants, about 7.7% of the total city residents. Each of the two quarters is divided into sub-quarters, which are further divided into neighborhoods.

Neve Sha'anan district–Jezreeliya The quarter is divided into 3 sub-quarters: Neve Sha'anan, Jezreeliya and Mordot Neve Sha'anan.

Mordot Neve Sha'anan The sub-district "Mordot Neve Sha'anan" (Neve Sha'anan's slopes) includes several neighborhoods in the north of Neve Sha'anan. These neighborhoods are inhabited by immigrants from various United States. In 2007, 14,890 residents lived in the quarter, which is about 40% of the total population of Neve Sha'anan - Jezreeliya. The slopes of Neve Sha'anan include the old neighborhoods of Halisa and Tel Amal, both of which were built before the establishment of the state of Israel, east of the Gesher Hagiborim (the heros' bridge) and along the transportation artery that forms the lower city and Neve Sha'anan, through Yad Labanim, and the streets that branch off from it. The Neve Paz neighborhood sits between Yad Lebanim Road and Shemen Beach. The main street, Carmeli Division, continues east and meets Derech Yaakov Dori in Neve Sha'anan.

Neve Yosef Neve Yosef - intersection of Yad Labanim Road and Arad Street This neighborhood, named after Yosef Erdstein, the leader of Haifa workers during the Mandate period, is located in the northern foothills of Neve Sha'anan. The neighborhood was designed for the demobilized Jewish Brigade and was established in 1949 as a neighborhood for demobilized soldiers, both demobilized from the British Army and demobilized from the IDF. Its first houses were one-story houses and during the years of mass immigration, several high-rise residences with entrances were built there - many families that were immigrated from Wadi Salib as well as from other regions. Neve Yosef has a wide variety of populations, including veteran residents from North African countries, immigrants from the countries of the former Soviet Union and immigrants from Ethiopia. The boundaries of the neighborhood are: in the west the Tel-Amal neighborhood, in the north Neve Paz, and in the east Neve Ganim. There are two entrances to the neighborhood, the first from Derech Yad Labanim, and the second from Rabbi Mashasha Street to the street in the neighborhood - Arad Street; In Neve Yosef there is an active and developed community center, which holds activities for all ages and is an important anchor in the life of the neighborhood, and next to it is a religious high school for girls - Urban 6, from the AMIT studio chain, which opened in 1965. Until 2005, when it moved to Kiryat Shmuel, Sha'anan College, the religious academic college for education, also operated on the school's campus. The Neve Yosef community center hosts every summer, since 2005, the Neve Yosef Community Theater Festival in collaboration with the Department of Theater of the University of Haifa.

Neve Paz Neve Paz was established after Amal, and is located between Yad Road and Labin in Shemen Beach. To the south of it is the Neve Yosef neighborhood. The main street is Hativat Carmeli Street. Its population is relatively young, many children. Construction continued in the 1990s to house many immigrants. Until 2009, two elementary schools, "Gabrieli" and "Kishon", operated in Benue Paz, but with the decrease in the enrollment of students, it was decided to close the "Kishon" school. In the neighborhood there is also a seminar for Arab teachers and kindergarten teachers, and a large facility of the electric company.

Neve Ganim Neve Ganim is the name of a neighborhood that began in the 21st century, stretching between Neve Paz and Neve Yosef. In the neighborhood is the Yeshiva "Ohel Yehoshua" of the Belez Chassidim.

Old Neve Sha'anan

The historical Neve Sha'anan expanded from its establishment in the 1920s until the War of Independence. The neighborhood includes the eastern part of Trumpeldor Boulevard and HaGalil and Hanita streets and the lateral streets that cross them. Its first houses were built in 1922, but a consular construction boom took place in the days of the fourth revolution. It developed and established its image as a neighborhood of workers and teachers, identified with socialist Zionism. Already in the 1920s it was decided to pave a road that would connect the neighborhood to Haifa. The work was handed over to Kibbutz "Hashomer Ha'Tsa'ir B" of the Shumaria Battalion, whose members founded the Mishmar HaEmek and were out of work after the construction of the Haifa-Jeddah road was completed. In 2007, about 10,860 people lived in the old Neve Sha'anan. In the neighborhood stands the water tower, which is a heritage site, and a variety of schools and kindergartens, including the "Tel Hai" elementary school, where the Hagana built 2 selikims, and a middle school and urban high school 3 named after Zalman Aren. Four nursing homes in the neighborhood. At the disposal of the religious citizens of Neve Sha'anan are eight synagogues, a state-religious school "Rambam", a high yeshiva and the Seder Or and Yeshua yeshiva, a religious community center and branches of the youth movements Bnei Akiva and Ariel, at the disposal of Bnei Akiva and Ariel, at the disposal of ultra-Orthodox citizens "Nachlat" assembly and meeting. In the House of the Workers' Council is the cinema "Inma Cafe Ami", one of the outdoor cinemas inside a shopping mall. The "Noash Camp" of the Olim camps is one of two camps of the movement in Neve Sha'anan (the other in Ramot Remez). The boys' garden In the old neighborhood near the intersection of Havanim-Hagalil-Hatinah-Hanita-Eilat streets you can find a public garden called

Gan Habanim The garden is divided into three main parts: A monument commemorating the names of the boys who fell in the Israeli wars who lived in the neighborhood. It is present in a large part of the Great Sea where large ceremonies are held, the Holocaust and Heroic Remembrance Day ceremony, the IDF Martyrs' and Enemy Victims Memorial Day, and the Independence Day ceremony. A lawn where cultural events, attractions for children, and events initiated by the residents are held from time to time. A large playground with many facilities, swings, slides, and benches.

Jezreeliya The Jezreeliya neighborhood, where about 10,770 people lived in 2007, was built after the clearing of the crossings and has high-rises and rows of "railway buildings". Its main street is Abba Hillel Silver Street. Here are the "Dinor" and "Jezreeliya" schools, and "Beit Abba Khushi" - a large cultural center. The first residential towers in Haifa were also built on Silver Street (numbers 111 and 113), in 1969 - they are 65 meters high. On the outskirts of the neighborhood, the "Sportech" garden was inaugurated in 1980, for the purpose of which Wadi Rushmia was filled with quarry waste for 4 years. Next to it, on the wadi slope, the "Grand Canyon" was built in 1999. On the western outskirts of Jezreeliya and Neve Sha'anan there was a British military camp where the legion soldiers were stationed during the Mandate. This camp then became one of the naval bases and was finally abandoned. The name of the neighborhood as the name of the company that purchased the land.

Ramot Neve Sha'anan district The quarter is divided into 2 sub-quarters: Ziv-Ramat Alon and Ramez-Ramat Sapir.

Ziv sub-district - Ramat Alon As of 2007, this sub-district is home to approximately 9,720 people.

Ziv