User:Eliasabsawy/Sisters of Nazareth School, Haifa

Sisters of Nazareth School (also known as the Convent of Nazareth School) is a co-educational Catholic school located in Haifa, Israel. Spanning approximately over 4.2 acres, the school educates students from kindergarten through 12th grade. It also has a dormitory, a church, and a nuns' convent.

The school is ranked as one of the top twenty outstanding high schools in Israel. The percentage of graduates eligible for a Bagrut certificate approached 97% in 2020.

Recently, the school has been took over by the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem in Israel.

History
The original school was founded in France in 1822, and a few decades later, a branch of the school was opened in Nazareth. In 1858, the Haifa branch was built on King George Street near the Haifa port of that time. At the beginning of the 20th century, the school moved to a large building (which at the time was one of the first concrete buildings in Haifa) on Abbas Street.

The school is funded by tuition payments, support from the Catholic community, and partially by the Ministry of Education. In September 2015, the Minister of Education, Naftali Bennett, decided to cut the budget provided by the Ministry of Education to church-affiliated private schools in Israel, including "Sisters of Nazareth," by approximately 50%. Additionally, he imposed restrictions on the percentage of parental funding and on the funding for teacher professional development.

In April 2019, students from the school, along with students from the Leo Baeck School, participated in an international program for understanding and dialogue in the United States.

Notable Alumni

 * Johny Srouji - Computer scientist serving as Senior Vice President of Hardware Technologies at Apple.
 * Mona Hawa - Actress and musician, recipient of the Ophir Prize.
 * Adi Adwan - Film director and screenwriter.
 * Tawfiq Mansour - Mathematician, Professor Emeritus at the University of Haifa.
 * Sihem Bensedrine - Writer and poet, winner of the Al-Multaqa Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the Arab world.
 * Grace Nehme - Artistic gymnast, former member of the Israeli national rhythmic gymnastics team.
 * Dr. Masoud Ghanayim - Scientist in the fields of microbiology and immunology, director and founder of the Elrowad Association, researcher at the Research and Development Unit of Teva.