Map of Israel
Rosh HaNikra besides serving as a bustling artery for war and peace, commerce and military travel, it is the location where the armistice was signed in 1949 between Lebanon and...
Read moreAcre (called Akko in Hebrew) is a city in the Galilee, located north of Haifa on the northern shore of Haifa Bay...
Read moreKnown as Israel’s largest “mixed city,” Haifa is a bustling community of Jews, Christians and Muslims proud of their coexistence. It was a city where Arab and Jewish intellectuals alike met in cafes and for congresses...
Read moreThe crest of Mt. Arbel allows adventurous climbers, and those assisted by a back-road drive, to drench themselves in an almost unparalleled sweep of the Galilee region...
Read moreTiberias is located on Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) and has the distinction of being the lowest city in Israel – literally – some 200 meters below sea level...
Read moreOne of the four holy cities of Judaism Hebron is often in the news due to its complex and abnormal mix of populations...
Read morePetra is a historic and archaeological city in the Jordanian governorate of Ma'an that has rock cut architecture and a water conduits system...
Read moreBethlehem, known as the birthplace of Jesus and King David, is a predominately Christian Palestinian city just south of Jerusalem. It is important to all three major religions of Israel...
Read moreThe modern town of Caesarea is located mid-way between Tel Aviv and Haifa along the Mediterranean coast, on the outskirts of the ancient port city of Caesarea Maritima.
Read moreThere is nowhere else on earth where you can visit the holiest site of Judaism, one of the holiest sites of Christianity, and the third holiest site of Islam, all in the same square mile.
Read moreIsrael's beautiful lake in the northern Galilee, called "Kinneret" in Hebrew, is a wonderland of nature, history and tradition.
Read moreVisit this spectacular mountain refuge on the Dead Sea for Jews escaping from the Roman legions after the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70 of the first century.
Read moreOne visit to the desert in Israel, and you will understand why Monotheism and the Jewish People were both born in the desert.
Read moreIsrael's largest city, founded over a hundred years ago on the sand dunes of the Sharon Plain, Tel Aviv is the hub of Israeli metropolitan life.
Read moreMost road signs in Israel are written in both Hebrew and Latin lettering, and thus most tourists are able to read them.
Read moreThe Dead Sea is unlike anywhere else you have ever been! Its shore and surface are 1388 feet (423 meters) below sea level, which makes it the lowest elevation on the earth’s surface on dry land
Read moreThe Golan Heights look like mountains to most of us, but actually they are a rocky plateau with an average altitude of 3,300 feet (1000 meters).
Read moreA visit to Banias, the mother-of-all-waterfalls in Israel, is one of the magic moments most visitors take away from Israel, simply for its awesome degree of nature at play, if for nothing else...
Read moreNimrod’s fortress overlooks the Hula Valley. Referred to as “probably the most exquisite ruins in the world,” by Mark Twain, the fortress was ...
Read moreSafed (which has many alternative spellings: Tsfat, Safad, Zefat, Sefad to name but a few) is located in the mountains of the Upper Galilee, 3200 feet (900 meters) above sea level.
Read moreBeginnings Hamat Gader is located close to the junction of the borders of three countries: Israel, Jordan and Syria, in the Yarmouk River valley, near the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Read moreThe latest Nabataean inscription that has been found in Israel to date – was found in Avdat. Sketched on plaster with black ink, the inscription was of a blessing to the Nabataean god Dushara...
Read moreTimna Park spreads over more than 60 square kilometers (about 23 square miles) and is the site of pioneering in the copper mining business over 6,000 years ago...
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Jerusalem
There is nowhere else on earth where you can visit the holiest site of Judaism, one of the holiest sites of Christianity, and the third holiest site of Islam, all in the same square mile, at Moriah, where Abraham almost sacrificed his son Isaac according to Jewish tradition.
In and around the Old City of Jerusalem, which is surrounded by the protective wall built by the Ottoman Emperor Suleiman in 1536, you can visit the archaeological excavation of the original city built by King David 3,000 years ago, and remains of the magnificent city and Temple Mount, including the Western Wall, the holiest site of Judaism, built by King Herod the Great 2,000 years ago. You can even walk along the ancient Cardo, the main street of the Roman and Byzantine cities. And this is only the beginning.
In today's Old City, there is a unique blending of ancient and modern. You can walk through the homes of the priests, the Cohanim, who served in the Temple during the first century, and see the destruction by fire that took place in the year 70 by the Romans, all preserved underground. Then walk upstairs to ground-level and see the modern Jewish Quarter, rebuilt and flourishing after 1,900 years of exile.
Atop the Temple Mount stands the magnificent gilded Dome of the Rock, built by the early Muslim caliph Omar over the Rock of Foundation, considered to be the place from which the world was created, in Jewish and Muslim traditions. Nearby is the El Aksa mosque, a focus for Muslims from around the world, in addition to those living nearby in the Muslim Quarter.
A ten-minute walk from here is the Christian Quarter, with the Via Dolorosa ("The Way of the Agonies") and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which together include the important places of the last days of Jesus, from his trial in Antonia Fortress, to the crucifixion at Golgotha, and the burial and rising from the grave according to Christian tradition; it's all within the walls of the Old City. The nearby Armenian Quarter has additional churches, museums and world famous pottery artisans. Need a break? Walk through the colorful shuk, or market, of the Old City, eat lunch at a variety of informal eateries, drink Turkish coffee, and relax between sites.
