Gymnasia Rehavia
Gymnasia Rehavia (Hebrew: גמנסיה רחביה) is a high school in the Rehavia neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel.
History
Gymnasia Rehavia was Jerusalem's first and the country’s second modern Jewish high school or gymnasium, after the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv. The school was first established in Jerusalem's Bukharan Quarter in 1909.[1] The building on Keren Kayemet Street in the Rehavia neighborhood was built in 1928. Among its early teachers were Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, later the second president of Israel, and his wife Rachel Yanait.[2]
In July 2009, the high school celebrated its centennial at an event attended by generations of alumni, many of whom are leading figures in Israeli society today.[3]
Notable alumni
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- Naomi Ben-Ami
- Yitzhak Danziger (1916-77), sculptor
- Trude Dothan
- Ephraim Katzir
- Dan Meridor
- Sallai Meridor
- Uzi Narkiss
- Miriam Naor, President of the Supreme Court of Israel
- Yoni Netanyahu (1946-76), commander of Sayeret Matkal; killed during Operation Entebbe
- Amos Oz (born 1939), writer, novelist and journalist
- Reuven Rivlin
- Eli Salzberger
- Nahman Shai
- Chemi Shalev
- Matan Vilnai
- Yigael Yadin (1917-84), archeologist, politician, and Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces
- A.B. Yehoshua (born 1936), novelist, essayist and playwright
- Rehavam Ze'evi
- Gideon Schocken (1919-1981), major general, former head of the Manpower Directorate
References
Coordinates: 31°46′37″N 35°12′49″E / 31.776964°N 35.21351°E