RE: [Cz-L] Haifa

Although I do not know for certain the exact reason, there was a major trend
of Romanian immigrants in the late forties (end of Independence war and
early fifties) to settle in Haifa, as was a similar trend of Bulgarian
mainly but also Romanian immigrants to settle in Jaffa and the surrounding
Arab villages. I suspect that the main reason was that these were the big
waves of immigrants in those years. and housing had just been left deserted
by the Arabs, who had left in the fights for liberation Jaffa and Haifa, in
the spring of 1948. So the Sochnut simply directed these waves to the empty
houses. Thereafter it was - for the Romanian immigrants in particular - a
tendency to join family, relatives or friends. Not to forget that Haifa was
an industrial city, so plenty of work opportunities, and Tel-Aviv was a
commercial centre, so plenty of job opportunities, but no habilitation -
whereas Jaffa and its suburbs was quite near. The Polish wave of those
years, for instance, centred more on Bat-Yam and Holon, with new Shikunim
being erected there by the Sochnut, and with Tel-Aviv being so close and
Jaffa already crowded.

Shavua Tov

Mordecai

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Subject: [Cz-L] Haifa

I've noticed that several members of this list live in Haifa. My relatives
who left Czernowitz after
World War II also moved there. Was there a reason so many people who moved
to Israel from Czernowitz picked Haifa?
 
LInda Gilboord from Albany, NY
Researching IKLER, ALTMAN, MEHLER from the Czernowitz area

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