LAST NEWS

July. A closing and award giving ceremony of the third international Haifa TeenTech competition, took place at Tikotin Museum. Attending were teenagers who took part in the program, parents and representatives of the Technion, Haifa University and local high-tech companies.

On 2-6 December Haifa Municipality hosted 11 entrepreneurs, the winners of Start Haifa 2018 the International startup competition, and International press delegation. The delegation took part in a 5 days professional program in Haifa-Israel.

The program was produced in collaboration with the Israeli Foreign Office. The program is designed to expose the participants to the highly acclaimed Israeli innovation ecosystem.

The Danish Embassy held a concert commemorating the 75^th anniversary of the saving of Denmark's Jewry. The event took place on 21.10, at the Tikotin Museum, and included a performance of the Danish Girls' Choir of Fredensborg Chapel, as well as a feature film about the saving of Denmark's Jewry. Attending the event was Denmark Ambassador in Israel, Ms. Charlotte Slente.

Romanian channel TVR CLUJ filmed a performance of a Romanian Folklore Troupe of approximately 90 dancers at Haifa's Memorial Park. The channel is known for producing and filming content for the Jewish audience. The filming took place in few locations in Israel, and the resulting documentary will air in leading TV shows in Romania as well as in Israel.

A flotilla from Sweden arrived in Israel as a token of solidarity. The Elida carried approximately 45 Swedes. On 10.18, flotilla members visited Haifa, to tour the city and the Technion. A special reception attended by many distinguished guests, was held in their honor at Scandinavia House.

A delegation led by Mayor of Bremen, Dr. Carsten Sieling, visited Haifa to mark the 40^th anniversary of the Haifa Arts Foundation, and to take part in Haifa's International Film Festival, which the Foundation has supported from its very first day.

The 7th China–Israel Hi-Tech Investment Summit took place at Dan Carmel Hotel. In recent years, Haifa Municipality, Haifa Economic Cooperation (HEC) and Messila – Medical Startup Academy, organize the summit. The summit covered new trends in various cutting-edge technologies: robotics in medicine and digital health; smart transportation and smart safe city; cyber security and AI; 3D printing; biotech and new technologies for the aging; renewable energy technologies.

Ms. Valentina Kerst, State Secretary, Ministry of Thuringian Economy and Science, headed the delegation.

More music, more shows, more flavors, more scents, more tours, and more exhibits characterized 2018's Holiday of Holidays Festival. The festival is an initiative of Beit HaGefen—an Arab-Jewish cultural center—and Haifa Municipality, who founded the festival, which spans three weekends every year in December, and takes place in Beit HaGefen and Wadi Nisnas.

Seventy WJC Jewish Diplomats from more than forty countries attended a conference titled Haifa as a Model for Coexistence 

The World Jewish Congress hosted in Israel members of its flagship program—the WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps—to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the State of Israel. On the three-day mission, they visited Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa, and engaged with leaders of Israeli society in various areas.

Prodromos Papavassiliou was a friend of Israel, who fought against the Nazis and helped Holocaust refugees exiled to internment camps in Cyprus. Haifa honored his memory with a square 

Prodromos Christou Papavassiliou (1919-2006) was born in Famagusta, Cyprus. In 1943, he joined the British Army to fight the Nazi regime, and in the course of his service befriended Jewish soldiers.

Evolving Hadar neighborhood became a destination for new immigrants and boasts the most colorful population in the city

When talking about a melting pot, one usually refers to a large group of heterogeneous people who after a while become a homogenous, unified group. In this respect, with the wide variety of populations living there, Hadar is not a melting pot: the different and diverse groups that compose the neighborhood maintain their uniqueness, despite and because of the constant interaction between them.