Art and designסעדיה מנדל

Saadia Mandel

Saadia Mandel was an Israeli architect known for preservation and restoration work and for heading architecture departments at Bezalel and Ariel University.

1931 to 2017Preservation of Old JaffaTel Aviv University railway stationHeading Bezalel's architecture department

Born: 2 July 1931, Novi Sad
Died: 26 June 2017, Herzliya
Occupation: architect
Education: Beaux-Arts de Paris, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Saadia Mandel was born in 1931 in Novi Sad

Saadia Mandel was born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, on July 2, 1931. He moved to the Land of Israel with his family as a child and grew up in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

He studied at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and at the AA in London. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Technion in Haifa.

Mandel opened a private practice in 1960, and his son Yariv joined it in 1993. His work included restoration and preservation in Old Jaffa, Yemin Moshe, Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Acre and Safed. In the 1970s he designed community and tourism buildings in southern Sinai, and he later designed the Tel Aviv University railway station, built in 2000.

He taught at the Technion and headed the architecture department at Bezalel from 1988 to 1990, and later the department at Ariel University. From 1984 he chaired the Tel Aviv district of the Council for the Preservation of Buildings and Sites. He died on June 26, 2017.

Milestones in Saadia Mandel's life

1931
Born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
1960
Opened his private architecture practice.
1965
Took part in designing the country club near Glilot junction.
1967
Won a prize for a plan to preserve Old Jaffa.
1969
Won a prize for a plan to restore the Jewish Quarter.
1977
Received a Sandberg research grant from the Israel Museum with designer Eli Gross.
1984
Became chair of the Tel Aviv district of the Council for the Preservation of Buildings and Sites.
1988
Became head of the architecture department at Bezalel.
2000
The Tel Aviv University railway station he designed was built.
2017
Died.