A view at the building in the photo taken that day
Click for a larger image The workers’ house also appears on a sign from the "History of Ramat Gan" series
Click for sign's details The buildings in the site designed by the Architect Translation of the text on the sign:
Ramat Gan city symbol
Symbol of the Ramat Gan Foundation for Education and Culture
Israel Scout logo
Workers Building [Image: Beit Hapoalim 1937, View from the North, Architect Arie Sharon / Re-inaugurated in 2013 / Source: Archive of the Ramat Gan Workers Council]
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Workers Building" was built by the Histadrut (General Organization of Workers in Israel) in 1937. The international style building was designed by architect Arieh Sharon, a graduate of the Bauhaus School and later the Israel Prize for Architecture.
The building was intended to replace the first workers’ house, which preceded it on the top of the hill. The main purpose of the workers’ house was to enable them to gather, learn and listen to lectures. In this house, the workers ’union committee also met, which took care of the workers’ rights in the city of Ramat Gan, where the industry developed at a rapid pace.
In 1957, the house was rented to the labor party, which used it as an Academics’ training school for integration into the labor market.
In the 1990s, the house was bought by the municipality of Ramat Gan, which decided to preserve and populate the Tzofi Elite tribe (Israel Scout).
In doing so, the house returned to its designation, as a public building that glorifies the urban landscape, as a high-quality and important architectural structure in the international style.
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