Denia, Haifa

As early as the 1930s there were attempts made to develop the then-empty area, which was rugged and wildly wooded, as a part of the Yishuv's strains of extending Haifa southwards whilst exercising environmental and landscape values - which later led to the declaration of the Carmel Park, tightly bordered by the district.

The original kernel of Denia, in official references sometimes appearing as "Hod HaCarmel", was established in the early 1960s, to the west of Road 672 which connects Haifa with Daliyat al-Karmel (later named after Mayor Aba Hushi), and the new neighborhood was actually so remote that it had no built-area continuity with any other existing community.

The failed initial prospect of attracting military officers as residents was replaced by the explicit attempt of creating a millionaire-suburbia at the forest's doorstep, giving rise to the city's wealthy families beginning to buy the exceptionally large lots on which ambitiously designed properties were built, frontaged by spectacular gardening.

Surrounded by lush wadi gorges from three directions, Denia Beth (or B) has a country club and a considerable share of its population are employees of the IT research and development hubs of southern Haifa.

Parallelly stretching on the eastern bank of the highway, the construction of Ramat Almogi was commenced in mid-1990s and has continued into the 21st century, with more multiple-tenant units and condominiums, rare to Denia's older parts.

The buildings, with large apartments overlooking the Haifa Bay, are set on a steep forest slope that has been heavily thinned out, north of the university, and those of them that reach farther east are eventually met by the identical tower blocks of the city of Nesher.