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National Museum of Science, Technology and Space

National Museum of Science, Technology and Space

National Museum of Science, Technology and Space in Haifa, Israel is an old Technion building located in the Balfour Street, Hadar,  It was established in 1984 and it was built with the help of architect Alexander Baerwald in 1912, a German Jewish architect immigrant who is best known for his works and designs in Haifa, […]

Railway Museum

Railway Museum in Haifa

Railway Museum in Haifa, Israel is situated in the old Haifa- East Railway Station on Hativat Golani Road near the Kikka Feisal in Haifa, perfectly on and around the beautiful Mount Carmel. It is a museum that study the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, like railway cars, railway vehicle( steam, diesel, and electric […]

Bat Galim Beach

Gat Balim Beach in Haifa

Bat Galim Beach in Haifa, Israel also known as the Rosh Carmel Beach is perfectly located in Haifa Bay area, in the Northern part of Bat Galim neighborhood near the Naval Base along Pinchas Margolin Street near at the foot of the cable car, where the wind surfing pier is situated. It is one of […]

Sail Tower

Sail Tower

Sail Tower in Haifa, Israel is one of the tallest, continuously habitable building situated in Palyam Street in the city of Haifa. It is named after Yitzhak Rabin, a general and Israeli politician, the fifth prime minister of Israel until his assassination last November 4, 1995. A skyscraper and officially the District Government Center Building B as […]

Elijah’s Cave

Elijah's Cave

Elijah’s Cave in Haifa, Israel is located at the base of Cape Carmel in Haifa, just beneath the Stella Maris Carmelite Monastery and Lighthouse, it’s stairways to the cave is at the Allenby Street in lower Haifa. An religious shrine important to many Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Druze, all of whom venerate the prophet Elijah, […]

Crusaders’ Castle of Atlit

Crusaders' Castle of Atlit

Crusaders’ Castle of Atlit in Haifa, Israel is a huge crusaders fortress located south of Haifa on a peninsula projecting the shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It is a large site that leads the scenery of the southern shore of Haifa at 400 m X 500 m. It is considered as the last Crusader outpost […]

Haifa University

haifa university

Haifa University in Israel is situated on the Southeastern side of Israel’s third largest city, sits atop Mount Carmel along with the green forests of Carmel Mountain Park. The university was founded by Haifa mayor Abba Hushi, an Israeli politician who served for eighteen years between 1951 to 1969. Haifa University is split up into six […]

Stella Maris Lighthouse and Carmelite Monastery

Stella Maris Carmelite Monastery

Stella Maris Carmelite Monastery in Haifa, Israel is beautifully situated in the Stella Maris road on the slope of Mt. Carmel that can be reach by foot or cable car. Standing across the street from the Old Light House, with an outstanding view of the sea and the ensemble of buildings like the Lighthouse called […]

Haifa Educational Zoo

Haifa Educational Zoo

Haifa Educational Zoo in Israel is perfectly located in the lower part of the northern Lotem River, and one of the most magnificent nature reserves in Mount Carmel. Founded in 1949 and named after the late Louis Ariel Goldschmidt. The contemporary, well equipped facilities of the newly renovated zoo house with a different kinds of […]

National Maritime Museum

National Maritime Museum in Haifa

National Maritime Museum in Haifa, Israel is a modern four story building situated near the entrance to Haifa South. It is founded by Arie Ben Eli, the first director of this museum in 1953. In 1972, the National Maritime Museum change their location to it’s current premises near to other tourist attractions in Haifa like the […]

Independence Hall Museum

Independence Hall Museum, Israel

Independence Hall Museum stood firm and steadfast in the historic Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, Israel. This hall symbolizes the unwavering and unbendable faith and strength of Israel under years of tyranny, persecution and sufferings. In this very hall, in May 14, 1948, Friday at exactly 4 pm, the first Israeli Prime Minister Ben-Gurion declared the […]

Nimrod Fortress

nimrod fortress

Nimrod Fortress in Kiryat Shmona, Israel also known as the “Castle of the Large Cliff” is one of the most extraordinary and one of the largest fortress in Israel. Situated inside a National park in the northern of Golan heights, on a cliff high above the ancient city of Banias with the view from the […]

Baha’i Gardens and Golden Dome

Baha'i Gardens and Golden Dome

Baha’i Gardens and Golden Dome in Haifa, Israel is one of the famous tourist spot in Haifa. Perfectly set in Zionut Avenue below Yefa Nof Street. The one that dominates Haifa is the golden dome of Baha’i Shrine. It is the  place where Bahai Faith members put up their shrine and world center because of […]

Old Tel Aviv Port Area

Old Tel Aviv Port Area

Old Tel Aviv Port Area in Tel Aviv, Israel is the first port of Israel established during the time of the British mandate over Palestine in 1936. In 1960′s, the Tel Aviv port shutdown as an active sea port. In 1980′s it became a nightlife and water sports center, its luxuriant area filled with restaurants […]

The Ancient Bath House in Nazareth

ancient Bath House

Ancient Bath House in Nazareth, Israel is an historical treasure discovered in 1990′s by a couple named Elias Shama and his Belgian wife Martina when they were having a renovation at their art and souvenir shop “Cactus” just beside the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Gabriel, next to Mary’s Well Square  in the heart of […]

Nachalat Binyamin Pedestrian Mall

Nachalat Binyamin Pedestrian Mall

Nachalat Binyamin Pedestrian Mall in Tel Aviv, Israel is situated in the Yemenite Quarter, in central Southern Tel Aviv, one of the city’s first neighborhoods in the center of Carmel market and Alenby Street. Nachalat Binyamin Pedestrian Mall is a natural and highly colored open air bazaar of special handicrafts, pantomime performing magic shows, street […]

Safari Park

Safari Park

Safari park in Ramat Gan, Israel or formally known as the Zoological Center of Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan, is a stimulating and uplifting way to experience and see some of the animals of our world. The animal park opened it’s doors to the general public in 1974 as an African animal park. Seven years after, in 1981, a zoo […]

Timna National Park

Timna National Park is one of the best landmarks and tourist destinations in Israel, situated 25 km. North of Eilat. The park covers some 60 km square of picturesque and breathtaking sight of endless sea of sand and multicolored desert views of landscapes and rock formations. This scenic valley entails primeval mining shafts and remains of copper melting […]

Coral Beach Nature Reserve

Coral Beach Nature Reserve in Eilat, Israel is a haven for one of the most heavily populated coral reefs in the world and the only one in Israel. It is an excellent billet for underwater enthusiasts and nature lovers alike. Experience the utopia and go on an adventure in a parallel and unfamiliar reality of life under the […]

Shulamit’s Eilat Diving Adventures

Shulamit’s Eilat Diving adventures is located in Eilat, Israel. Divers swarm to Eilat because of the Red Sea’s rich underwater life. A collection and assemble of marine life made up of a complex and delicate life of floras and faunas that create colorful silhouettes of underwater oasis cruised by an array of wildly-hued marine life, teeming with colorful, exotic fish […]

Ein Gedi Resort and Spa

Ein Gedi resort and spa overlooks and gives a commanding view of the magnificent waters of the Dead sea and the spectacular wildlife sanctuary. Ein Gedi is an oasis in Israel, located west of the Dead Sea, near Masada and the caves of Qumran at the lowest and saltiest sea on earth. Dear flora has apportioned […]

Underwater observatory Marine Park

Underwater observatory marine Park, Israel

Underwater observatory marine Park is situated in Eilat, Israel. Discover the reverie and take the rare opportunity to embark on a journey in one of our most exquisite and beautiful seas in the world. An amazing subsurface reality of  the Red Sea in the Underwater observatory Marine Park’s natural undersea adventure. It is considered as one of […]

Bograshov Beach

Bograshov Beach, Israel

Bograshov Beach hails in the streets of Bograshov in Tel Aviv, Israel. Situated in the center of some of the best tourist attractions and hotels, the finest that Tel Aviv in Israel has to offer. A stones throw away from tourists destinations like Dizengoff fountain, The Great synagogue, The Museum of Israeli Art, Frank Meisler, Irit and […]

Tayelet

Tayelet

Tayelet is a promenade walk along the magnificent beach front of Tel Aviv, it gives and provides a pathway between Tel Aviv and Jaffa and Tel Aviv’s sea shore. It extends most of the way down to the main strip of Tel Aviv starting the marina in the north and ends in the Jaffa. It […]

Church of the Visitation

Church of the Visitation

Church of the Visitation in Ein Kerem, Israel also known as the Church of the Magnificat. It is perfectly situated in the slopes of a rocky hill that can be accessed with a good and charming walk under the shady leaves of the cypresses from the Virgin’s Fountain in the lower village. From the top, a gallant […]

White City in Tel Aviv

white city in tel aviv

White City in Tel Aviv is the unique urban and historical constructions of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, a combination of over 4,000 Bauhaus and architectural style of buildings built in Tel Aviv from 1920′s to 1930′s. It is a blend of exceptional significance of the various styles by German Jewish architects who migrated after the eminence of Nazis […]

Azrieli Center

Azrieli Center

Azrieli Center is a coordination of a tall, continuously habitable building situated on a 34,500 square meter site in the east side of Tel Aviv right the Ayalon road, Israel which is the dumpster-truck parking garage and became a 3 building with a $ 350,000,000 budget project. The Azrieli Center Circular Tower is the most tallest among […]

The Via Dolorosa

via-dolorosa

Via Dolorosa is one of the most magnificent and popular holy sites in the city of Jerusalem, a Latin word for Way of Suffering or Way of Grief. It is a street within the Old City of Jerusalem known as the path where Jesus walked carrying his cross from the Lions Gate in the Muslim […]

Church of the Holy Sepulchre

church of the holy sepulchre

Church of the Holy Sepulchre is considered as the Church of the Resurrection to Eastern Orthodox Christians, situated in the Christian quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, nearly 2,000 feet away from Dome of the Rock and Temple Mount. Considered as one of the most holiest place in the Christian world, it is located […]

The Old Cemetery

The Old Cemetery

The Old Cemetery in Tel Aviv is also known as the Trumpeldor Cemetery situated in Trumpeldor Street, Tel Aviv. The cemetery was founded in 1903 in an open area nortwards Jaffa during  a cholera epidemic hit the city of Jaffa. The casualties of the epidemic were the first people buried in the cemetery, followed by […]