Rehavia Bauhaus and Intellectuals

The Schocken Library is a two-story building constructed of pale limestone that stands on Balfour Street, near the edge of the Talbiyeh neighborhood. Designed by the modernist architect Erich Mendelsohn and completed in nineteen…

Beit Aghion, a striking International Style villa, stands at the corner of Balfour and Smolenskin Streets in the Rehavia neighborhood. Designed by architect Richard Kauffmann and completed in nineteen thirty-eight, the building is defined…

Villa Lea is marked by the name of the residence inscribed in Latin letters on its exterior wall. Completed in nineteen thirty-four, the building was commissioned by the Jerusalem lawyer Nasib Abkarius Bay as a private home for his wife,…

Al-Harizi Street is a quiet residential lane in the Rehavia neighborhood, named for the medieval Spanish-Jewish poet and traveler Judah al-Harizi. The street is marked by the low-rise, International Style architecture characteristic of the…

The Yad Ben-Zvi compound in the Rehavia neighborhood is anchored by a modest residential hut, a relic from the early years of this district when the area was rocky, barren land. This simple structure served as the home for Yitzhak Ben-Zvi,…

Gymnasia Rehavia stands on Keren Kayemet Street as a high school with a history that predates the modern State of Israel. Established in nineteen oh nine in the Bukharan Quarter, the school relocated to this building in nineteen…

Abarbanel Street is characterized by its tree-lined, narrow, one-lane design, a hallmark of the garden city principles applied to the Rehavia neighborhood. The structures here, typically built from Jerusalem stone, were developed starting…

Ramban Street was the first street laid out in the Rehavia neighborhood, which began its transformation from a desolate plot of land into a garden suburb in the early nineteen twenties. The neighborhood was designed by architect Richard…