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The Levy Family came to Israel more than 10 centuries ago. This collection of photographs, numbering 15, was given to the archives at Yad Ben Zvi as part of a joint venture of the 'Lev Hair' Community Center in Jerusalem, in which they saved and documented families that founded and built the neighborhoods in the Nachlaot area of Jerusalem. One of the families that lived in the Ohel Moshe neighborhood was the Boanus-Halevy family whose pictures are presented in this album. Mrs. Vered Boanus-Halevy, the wife of Eliezer Halevy, their son, Binyamin and Sultana Halevy, transferred the pictures to the project 'A Picture in Stone'. You can read the extended history of the family in the album YBZ0076 in the project, "Israel Reveled to the Eye" at Yad Ben Zvi. Rabbi Binyamin Halevy (1880-1953) (8 generations in Israel and the son of Rabbi Avraham Asher Halevy) married his cousin, Svetlana Halevy (1884-1975), the daughter of Yaacov Mordechai Halevy, his father's brother). As an adult he served as director of an old age home and later taught Talmud at Beit Hinuch for the Blind and Yeshivat Tiferet Yerushlayim and Porat Yosef. He was one of the founders of the Al Hamishmar Association, which propagated a national-religious approach while providing mutual assistance. He also served as the chairman of the Ohel Moshe neighborhood committee and served as chief gabai of the Great Synagogue. He later served as a member of the National Committee for the Israeli Knesset and in 1944 served as Deputy Chairman of the elections to the Chief Rabbinate Council. The couple had 9 children (only 6 of them reached adulthood). Asher, their eldest son married Shoshana Diamant. Their son Yaacov married Yehudit Meyuchas, and their son Elazar married Varda Buanos????. Their daughter Esther married Yaacov Monbaz and their daughter Yaffa married Sheferman. Their daughter Naomi married Dr. Chaim Goldman. .(בן טובים), Elazar Halevy (1913-1989) The son of Binyamin and Svetlana was a teacher in the Talmud Torah ' Beit Aharon' while he was studying law at the Law School of the Mandatory Government. The Talmud Torah was founded from the estate of Chaim Aharon Valero and served as a shelter and school for children who hung out on the streets. Elazar Halevy worked as a lawyer for two years. After the founding of the State, he was appointed as the Registrar of the Jerusalem District Court. In 1953 he was appointed as the Chief Magistrate and in 1962 he was appointed to the position of acting District Judge in Jerusalem. He served in this position until his retirement in 1983. Naomi Halevy The youngest daughter of Binyamin and Svetlana married Dr.Chaim Goldman, in 1948, in the family's house in Mekor Baruch in Jerusalem. Dr. Chaim Goldman served in the program for overseas volunteers during the War of Independence as a volunteer doctor from South Africa. At the end of the war, the couple moved to South African and lived there for a number of years. Their son Michael, the eldest of their 6 children, was born there. In 1953 the couple returned to Israel. Dr. Goldman worked in Tel Hashomer and afterwards he was one of the founders of Poriah Hospital. He was a highly respected and admired orthopedist throughout the Gallilee. Naomi Halevy Goldman worked in Education. Chaim Goldman died of a heart attack in 1972. A year later, on 7.10.1973 their eldest son, Michael Goldman, was killed when he served in the 'detachment' stronghold on the Suez Canal. He received the Medal of Valor after his death. The father and son are both buried in the cemetery of the Kinneret Group.
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