Beit Hadfus Street

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Beit Hadfus Street (Hebrew : רחוב בית הדפוס‎, Rehov Beit Hadfus, lit. "Street of the Printing Press"), also spelled Beit Hadefus, is an east-west street in the Givat Shaul industrial zone in western Jerusalem.

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Name

Beit Hadfus Street was constructed in the 1960s [1] and named for the printing houses that established themselves there. [2]

Two of Israel's largest book publishing houses which still maintain their headquarters on the street are Keter Publishing House, established in 1958, [3] and Feldheim Publishers, which established its Israel branch in the 1960s. [4] Laser Pages Publishing Ltd., located in the Mercaz Sapir complex, publishes scientific journals. [5] Printing establishments include Old City Press, founded in 1969, [6] and Yaakov Feldheim Ltd. [7] A string of printing shops is located at the western end of the street.

Keter Publishing House is one of the largest publishers in Israel. It was formed in 2005 through a merger of Keter Publishing and Steimatzky. Keter has a large book marketing and distribution network, as well print services and book production for the Israeli domestic and export market. Keter is the most prominent publisher of contemporary Hebrew literature in Israel. Keter also published the first edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica and is a co-publisher of the Junior Britannica.

Feldheim Publishers is an American Orthodox Jewish publisher of Torah books and literature. Its extensive catalog of titles includes books on Jewish law, Torah, Talmud, Jewish lifestyle, Shabbat and Jewish holidays, Jewish history, biography, and kosher cookbooks. It also publishes children's books. It is headquartered in New York, with publishing and sales divisions in Jerusalem, Israel. Its president is Yitzchak Feldheim.

Printer (publishing) company or manufacturing facility for printed products

In publishing, printers are both companies providing printing services and individuals who directly operate printing presses.

Bargain stores

In contrast to Kanfei Nesharim Street, the other main commercial artery in Givat Shaul, which developed into a modern shopping area with many chain stores, restaurants, and stylish office buildings, Beit Hadfus Street has remained largely industrial with discount and outlet stores that attract bargain shoppers. [8] The street has also witnessed a spate of pricing wars among supermarkets geared to Haredi shoppers, notably Rami Levy and Osher Ad discount supermarkets. [9]

Kanfei Nesharim Street

Kanfei Nesharim Street is a major east-west thoroughfare in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of western Jerusalem. Unlike most Jerusalem streets, Kanfei Nesharim is a wide thoroughfare with two traffic lanes in each direction, separated by a median, and spans 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) in a straight line. It connects the neighborhood of Kiryat Moshe on the east to Har Nof on the west, and includes the modern commercial strip of office buildings, stores and restaurants in what is termed Givat Shaul Bet.

Haredi Judaism spectrum of groups within Orthodox Judaism

Haredi Judaism is a broad spectrum of groups within Orthodox Judaism, all characterized by a rejection of modern secular culture. Its members are often referred to as strictly Orthodox or ultra-Orthodox in English, although the term "ultra-Orthodox" is considered pejorative by many of its adherents. Haredim regard themselves as the most religiously authentic group of Jews, although this claim is contested by other streams.

Rami Levy Hashikma Marketing is the third largest Israeli retail supermarket chain, behind Shufersal Ltd. and Alon Holding–Blue Square Ltd., with annual revenues of NIS 1.14 billion (US$401 million). Founded in 1976 on Rehov Hashikma in the Mahane Yehuda Market district, Rami Levy was Israel's first discount store. The chain claims to slash the price of the average basket of goods by as much as 20%. The company went public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in 2007 and has increased its sales volume and number of stores each year since.

Low-cost wedding halls

Haredi wedding at Armonot Wolf. Armonot Wolf wedding, Jerusalem.jpg
Haredi wedding at Armonot Wolf.

Low-cost wedding halls servicing the religious population of Jerusalem have also opened in office and industrial buildings on the street. Some of these are subsidized by major charity organizations to keep expenses down for low-income families. The Armonot Wolf (Wolf Palaces) [10] wedding halls are affiliated with the Yad Eliezer charity organization, which subsidizes weddings for needy couples through its Adopt-a-Wedding campaign. [11] [12] The Gutnick halls, [10] funded by Australian philanthropist Joseph Gutnick and managed by Chabad, provide subsidized weddings for 440 needy couples annually through the Colel Chabad charity fund. [13] The Lechaim halls, [10] located in the same industrial complex as Armonot Wolf (Wolf Palaces), are also cheaper than wedding halls in other parts of the city.

Yad Eliezer is a Jewish poverty-relief organization in Israel. It is best known for its monthly distribution of thousands of family food packages, baby formula and baby food packages. It also provides a range of financial and rehabilitative support services, including the mentoring of boys from single-parent families and free or low-cost weddings at its wedding complex in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem. Founded as a small, neighborhood chesed organization, it is now one of the largest poverty-relief organizations in Israel, with over 12,000 volunteers. Led by Orthodox Jewish management, it provides services for both religious and secular families in Israel.

Joseph Gutnick Australian businessman

Joseph Isaac "Diamond Joe" Gutnick is an Australian businessman and mining industry entrepreneur. He is also an ordained rabbi and is well known for his philanthropy in the Jewish world. He declared bankruptcy in July 2016.

Chabad Chasidic movement Chabad-Lubavitch

Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch, is an Orthodox Jewish, Hasidic movement. Chabad is one of the world's well-known Hasidic movements, particularly for its outreach activities. It is one of the largest Hasidic groups and Jewish religious organizations in the world.

Bakeries

View of Angel Bakeries' flour pipeline spanning Beit Hadfus Street between the flour silo (left) and bakery (right). Angel's flour pipeline 1.jpg
View of Angel Bakeries' flour pipeline spanning Beit Hadfus Street between the flour silo (left) and bakery (right).

Israel's two largest commercial bakeries are located on Beit Hadfus Street: Angel Bakeries, founded in 1958 opposite a flour mill, [14] and Berman's Bakery, established in 1965 further east. In 1965, Angel Bakeries commissioned a Texas company to construct a 750-foot (230 m) pipeline to convey flour directly from the flour mill to the silo to the bakery across the street. Today this pipeline brings 120 tons of flour to the bakery daily. The invention, initially opposed by the Jerusalem municipality for being above-ground, won the Kaplan Prize for distinction in productivity and efficiency. [15]

Angel Bakeries

Angel Bakeries, also known as Angel's Bakery, is the largest commercial bakery in Israel, producing 275,000 loaves of bread and 275,000 rolls daily and controlling 30 percent of the country's bread market. With a product line of 100 different types of bread products and 250 different types of cakes and cookies, Angel sells its goods in 32 company-owned outlets nationwide and distributes to 6,000 stores and hundreds of hotels and army bases. It also exports to the United States, United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Denmark.

Berman's Bakery is the oldest commercial bakery in Israel and the second-largest after Angel Bakeries. Founded in 1875 by Kreshe Berman as a cottage industry in Jerusalem's Old City, the family business was the first to open a Jewish store outside the Old City walls and first to build a flour mill in Israel.

Government and education

Beit Hadfus Street is also home to:

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