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6385 ORCHARD LAKE ROAD
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WEST BLOOMFIELD 48322

248.855.4488

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Travel

An Israeli Street
Named Watson

CARL ALPERT'
Special to The Jewish News

I

can understand why so many
streets in Israel's cities are
named for the great Zionist
leaders — Herzl, Ben-Gurion,
Weizmann, Ahad Ha-Am and all the
others.
I can understand the desire to
honor the memory of outstanding
Britishers who played a role at one
stage or another in the creation of the
Jewish State — Balfour, Wingate,
Wedgewood, among others.
But who, in heaven's name, was
Lionel Watson, whose name adorns
one of the very pleasant residential
streets atop Mt. Carmel?
The question was addressed to me
by a recent visitor.

He influenced
Haifa and all of
Israel.

Lionel Watson was the son of an
Australian Protestant minister. He
was born in New Zealand, became a
civil engineer and architect, and
joined the British Colonial service.
In 1934, he was sent from the
Gold Coast (now Ghana) to the
British mandatory government in
Palestine, and installed as municipal
engineer of Haifa. He saw the possi-
bilities of the Mt. Carmel city, and
drew up master plans for future
development which led to the cre-
ation of a garden city.
Nothing small escaped his atten-
tion. He barred goats from the
municipal area to preserve the vegeta-
tion, but saw to it that the Arab
shepherds were compensated. Those
who enjoy Haifa's Panorama Road
(Yefe Nof) should know that this was
his creation.
In 1944 he married an American
girl, Rivka Sonberg, who had served
as his secretary. He identified fully
with the Jewish Yishuv, Mandate gov-
ernment, and when the British with-
drew in 1948 he elected to remain in
service to the State of Israel, despite
urgent pleas from the British, and
despite the fact that by so doing he