page_title: Merkaz HaCarmel
section_title: Louis Promenade
hierarchical_section_title: Merkaz HaCarmel / Merkaz HaCarmel today / Louis Promenade
caption_attribution_description: Yefe Nof street - Louis promenade. View of the Haifa bay
context_page_description: Merkaz HaCarmel also called Carmel Merkazi or in English, Carmel Center, is a neighborhood, and cultural and recreation area on the slopes of Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel.
context_section_description: In 1992, the Louis Promenade was built along Yefe Nof Street, and runs from Hotel Nof to the Emperor's Monument, near to the entrance to the upper Terraces of the Shrine of the Báb. The promenade was donated by Paul and May Goldschmidt, Haifa residents originally from South Africa, in memory of their son Louis (Ariel) who was killed in a car accident. The promenade is about 400 metres (0.25 miles) in length and includes Gan Yefe Nof and "בריכת האיילה". (The Goldschmidt family later contributed to the renovation of Haifa Zoo including the provision of electric cars to provide accessibility for the disabled.)
  At the far end of the promenade stands a monument to the 1997 Israeli helicopter disaster, in which 73 people were killed.
caption: View of the city of Haifa from Louis Promenade in Merkaz HaCarmel
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