Editing Haifa (section)

==Arts and culture==
[[File:South Dado Beach - Hof HaCarmel - Haifa (1506044661).jpg|thumb|left|upright|Promenade along Dado Beach]]
[[File:Folk dancing in Dado Beach, Haifa 2015.JPG|thumb|Folk dancing on Dado Beach]]
Despite its image as a port and industrial city, Haifa is the cultural hub of northern Israel. During the 1950s, mayor [[Abba Hushi]] made a special effort to encourage authors and poets to move to the city, and founded the [[Haifa Theatre]], a [[repertory theater]], the first municipal theater founded in the country.<ref name=culture>{{cite web |url=http://www.tour-haifa.co.il/eng//modules/article/view.category.php/19 |title=Culture & Leisure |publisher=Tour-Haifa.co.il |access-date=18 February 2008 |archive-date=11 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110411140703/http://www.tour-haifa.co.il/eng/modules/article/view.category.php/19 |url-status=live}}</ref> The principal Arabic theater servicing the northern Arab population is the [[al-Midan Theater]]. Other theaters in the city include the Krieger Centre for the Performing Arts and the Rappaport Art and Culture Center.<ref name=culture/> The Congress Center hosts exhibitions, concerts and special events.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tour-haifa.co.il/eng/modules/article/view.article.php/c19/148 |title=The Congress Center |publisher=Haifa Municipality |access-date=2 April 2008 |archive-date=19 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119054714/http://www.tour-haifa.co.il/eng/modules/article/view.article.php/c19/148 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The New Haifa Symphony Orchestra, established in 1950, has more than 5,000&nbsp;subscribers. In 2004, 49,000 people attended its concerts.<ref name=leisure/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.haifasymphony.co.il/eabout.asp |title=Haifa Symphony |access-date=20 January 2008 |publisher=Haifa Symphony |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071217224625/http://www.haifasymphony.co.il/eabout.asp |archive-date=17 December 2007}}</ref> The [[Haifa Cinematheque]], founded in 1975, hosts the annual [[Haifa International Film Festival]] during the intermediate days of the [[Sukkot]] holiday. Haifa has 29 movie theaters.<ref name=leisure/> The city publishes a local newspaper, Yediot Haifa,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abyznewslinks.com/israe.htm |title=Israel Newspapers |access-date=27 January 2008 |publisher=Abyznewslinks.com |archive-date=8 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208085205/http://www.abyznewslinks.com/israe.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> and has its own radio station, Radio Haifa.[http://www.1075.fm רדיו חיפה – 107.5FM]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://radiostationworld.com/Locations/Israel/Radio.asp |title=Radio Broadcasting Stations |access-date=26 January 2008 |publisher=Radiostationworld.com |archive-date=8 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108125439/http://radiostationworld.com/locations/israel/radio.asp |url-status=live}}</ref> The Israeli Arabic-language newspapers [[Al-Ittihad (Israeli newspaper)|Al-Ittihad]] and [[Al-Madina (Israeli newspaper)|Al-Madina]] are also based in Haifa. During the 1990s, Haifa hosted the Haifa Rock & Blues Festival featuring [[Bob Dylan]], [[Nick Cave]], [[Blur (band)|Blur]] and [[PJ Harvey]]. The last festival was held in 1995 with [[Sheryl Crow]], [[Suede (band)|Suede]] and [[Faith No More]] as headliners.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}

===Museums===
[[File:P1190557 - בית הטכניון ההיסטורי - החצר.JPG|thumb|upright|National Museum of Science, Haifa]]
Haifa has over a dozen museums.<ref name=leisure/><ref name=museums>{{cite web |url=http://www.get2israel.com/Destinations/haifa.aspx |title=Haifa Museums |publisher=Get2Israel.com |access-date=18 February 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229091637/http://www.get2israel.com/Destinations/haifa.aspx |archive-date=29 February 2008}}</ref> The most popular museum is the Israel National Museum of Science, Technology, and Space, which recorded almost 150,000&nbsp;visitors in 2004. The museum is located in the historic Technion building in the Hadar neighborhood. The [[Haifa Museum|Haifa Museum of Art]] houses a collection of modern and classical art, as well as displays on the history of Haifa. The [[Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art]] is the only museum in the Middle East dedicated solely to [[Japanese art]]. Other museums in Haifa include the Museum of Prehistory, the National Maritime Museum and [[Haifa City Museum]], the Hecht Museum,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mushecht.haifa.ac.il/Default_eng.aspx |title=Hecht Museum homepage |access-date=13 October 2014 |publisher=Hecht Museum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011210953/http://mushecht.haifa.ac.il/Default_eng.aspx |archive-date=11 October 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> the Dagon Archaeological Museum of Grain Handling,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nahariya.info/blog/dagan-grain-silo-and-museum-haifa |title=Dagan Grain Silo and Museum, Haifa |access-date=13 October 2014 |publisher=Nahariya.info – Nahariya and the Western Galilee |archive-date=19 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019110720/http://www.nahariya.info/blog/dagan-grain-silo-and-museum-haifa |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.culture.org.il/directory/viewItem.asp?cat=6&subcat=6.3&idNum=8175 |title=Dagon Collection – Archaeological Museum of Grain Handling in Israel |access-date=13 October 2014 |publisher=Israel Arts Directorye |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812025851/http://www.culture.org.il/directory/viewItem.asp?cat=6&subcat=6.3&idNum=8175 |archive-date=12 August 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> the [[Israel Railway Museum|Railway Museum]], the [[Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum]], the Israeli [[Petroleum industry|Oil Industry]] Museum, and Chagall Artists' House.<ref name=leisure/> As part of his campaign to bring culture to Haifa, Mayor Abba Hushi provided the artist [[Mane-Katz]] with a building on Mount Carmel to house his collection of Judaica, which is now a museum.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tour-haifa.co.il/eng/modules/article/view.article.php/c21/123 |title=The Mane Katz Museum |access-date=25 January 2008 |publisher=Tour-Haifa.co.il |archive-date=13 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080313222222/http://www.tour-haifa.co.il/eng/modules/article/view.article.php/c21/123 |url-status=live}}</ref> The former home and studio of artist [[Hermann Struck]] is now the Hermann Struck Museum.<ref name=Struck>{{cite news |last1=Kamin |first1=Debra |title=Home of Haifa artist Hermann Struck is reborn as museum |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/home-of-haifa-artist-hermann-struck-is-reborn-as-museum/ |access-date=9 January 2019 |work=The Times of Israel |date=3 October 2013 |archive-date=16 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116134941/https://www.timesofisrael.com/home-of-haifa-artist-hermann-struck-is-reborn-as-museum/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The Haifa Educational Zoo at Gan HaEm park houses a small animal collection including Syrian brown bears, now extinct from Israel. Wןthin the zoo is the Pinhas House biology institute. In the close vicinity of Haifa, on the Carmel, the Northern "Hai-Bar" ("wild life") operated by Israel's Parks and Reserves Authority for the purpose of breeding and reintroduction of species now extinct from Israel, such as Persian Fallow Deer.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}