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Jerusalem 

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Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. It is a holy city to three major religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Within Jerusalem lies the Old City, including the Temple Mount, the Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. Jerusalem, although known for its religious sites, the city is also artistic and cultural with many venues such as The Israel Museum, Yad Vashem (Holocaust Museum), the Museum on the Seam, The Jerusalem Music Center in Yemin Moshe, The Shuk (Market) for almost any produce and much more.


Tel Aviv 

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Tel Aviv has a population of over 400,000 people and is the second most popular city after Jerusalem. The city is also known as the city center and is right in the middle of Israel. The whole city is situated on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline. Tel Aviv is also known as Yafo and is situated along the coast line of Tel Aviv.

Tel Aviv today is a well built up city including the stock exchange, major performing arts and business center including offices, beaches, cafes, bars, parks, restaurants, shopping. Tel Aviv is also known as “the city that never sleeps” due to a thriving nightlife open 24 hours a day. Tel Aviv has many of the world’s leading hotels, many of which are right on the sea front. Israel itself is said to have the highest amount of museums, with three of them located in Tel Aviv.

Among these includes the Palmach Museum and Batey Haosef Museum specializing in the Israel Defense Forces Military History. On November 4th, 1995, Israel’s then Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated at a rally in Tel Aviv in support of the Oslo peace accord. The place where the shooting occurred was formerly naked as Kikar Malchei Yisrael, and was then renamed Rabin Square.


Golan 

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The Golan Heights is sometimes also referred to as the Syrian Heights. The Golan has a history and has many archeological landmarks, mountains, waterfalls and scenic streams. The Golan Heights is a source of a large amount of Israel’s agricultural production and contributes significantly to the water resources. The Golan Heights is a popular tourist destination attracting about three to four million tourists a year.

There have been found 62 ancient synagogues within the Golan Heights, as well as an ancient village called Katzrin, The Golan Archaeological Museum, and The Golan Heights Winery.

There is also the Gamla Natre Reserve, Rujum el-Hiri (stone monument), a Ski Resort on the slopes of Mount Hermon, Hamat Gader (matural hot mineral springs) and Hippos and ancient Greco- Roman city.


Lower Galilee 

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The Lower Galilee is found within the North District of Israel and reaches from Jezreel Valley in the South to the Upper Galiless (Beit HaKerem Valley) in the north. On the Easetrn side border is the Jordan River and the Sea of Galilee. Its western border is the Zvulun Valley and Acre. The Lower Galiless is the southern part of the Galilee. The Lower Galilee has fewer mountains than the Upper Galilee therefore called Lower. The tallest peaks are Mount Kamun at the Northern part of the Lower Galilee and Mount Tabor in the southern part. The Lower Galilee consists of three different regions which differ in their geological structure:

  • • The western Lower Galilee – consisting of low mountain ranges which extend from east to west with valleys in between.
  • • The central Lower Galilee – with more mountains
  • • The high regions of the eastern Lower Galilee – flat basalt mountainside.

The Lower Galilee is very green, peaceful and quiet and accessible to the majority of Israeli’s with only a 2 hour drive from Tel Aviv. A lot of the produce farms of Israel originate in the Lower Galilee especially in Jezereel Valley and the Beit She’an Valley.


Upper Galilee 

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The Upper Galilee is a geographical-political term in use since the end of the Second Temple period, originally referring to a mountainous area overlapping the present northern Israel and southern Lebanon, its borders being the Litani river in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Beit HaKerem valley and Lower Galilee in the south and the Jordan river and Hula Valley in the east. In present-day Israeli terminology, the term is mainly used in reference to the part that is under Israeli sovereignty.

There are many different sites to see in the Upper Galilee. Some include; Tell Hazor, one of the largest most important biblical sites in the Canaanite and Israelite periods (see Joshua 11:10), Tell Yaaf (Qasab) located east of Rosh–Pinah on the prute of the ancient road to Syria, Montfort Crusaders Castle, ruins of a remote 13C Crusaders castle located in the heart of the nature park of Kziv creek, Tell Dan – which is a nature reserve and the source of the Dan and Jordan rivers.

It is an impressive archaeological site with unique remains of the Canaanite and Israelite cities and a Biblical High Place. Rosh Hanikra is Located on the western side of the border with Lebanon, the tourist attraction offers amazing views of the grottos and tunnels. Also in the Upper Galilee is Zebulon: north of the Shafaram on the road to Akko, is found a spring called Ain Zabulon.


Carmel 

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Also known as Mount Carmel, Carmel is situated by the coastal mountain range in Israel overlooking the Mediterranean Sea as well as Carmel an ancient Israelite town in Judea al-Karmil, a Palestinian village and modern-day successor to the Biblical Carmel and Carmel, Har Hebron, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, adjacent to the ancient site whose name it shares.

Caesarea, close to Carmel is a port city founded in the middle of the 1st century BC. Caeserea served as the capital of Israel in the Roman Period. Today the city is a national park.


Judean Desert 

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The Judean Desert is a desert in Israel that lies east of Jerusalem and descends to the Dead Sea- which is the lowest point on earth. The Judean Desert is also known as the Judean wilderness and Yeshimon.

Since it is so close the Dead Sea, there are a number of sites worth visiting including Ein Gedi – located west of the Dead Sea near Masada. Ein Gedi nature reserve and is one of the most important reserves in Israel. The park is situated on the eastern border of the Judean Desert, on the Dead Sea coast. Ein Gedi nature reserve includes two spring-fed streams with flowing water year-round.

Ein Bokek is located 1 hour and a half by road from Jerusalem and is now a modern oasis and panacea for health seekers and tourists alike, and lies in stark contrast to the barren, rugged and genesis landscape of the Judean Desert Cliffs surrounding the area.

Every Jewish settlement along the coast of the Dead Sea has a hostel. There is also a hostel at the base of Masada. High class hotels can be found in Ein-Bokek and Neve-Zohar in the southern coast of the Dead Sea. You can also camp for free in the coast of Ein-Gedi, where you also have shops, beach-showers and bathrooms.


The South 

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The Southern District, Mehoz HaDarom is one of Israel’s six administrative districts, and is the largest in terms of land area as well as the most sparsely populated. It covers most of the Negev desert, as well as the Arabah valley. The district capital is Beersheba, whilst the largest city is Ashdod. Beersheba’s towns of Omer, Meitar, and Lehavim, whilst the development towns (including Sderot, Netivot, and Ofakim) and the seven Bedouin cities.

The Negev is a vast region, mostly desert, located in Southern Israel. From the Negev desert is part of the world. Central Negev city is Beersheva is located just north. The Tamar River also in the south is a trail park. The trail begins observing the Hawara area – pretty plain, and the Moab Mountains, located near Highway Dimona – Arava junction. Other parks include, En worked – a spring in the Negev Highlands, Red Canyon is a mall on two river which is in the mountains of Eilat. Also situated in the South is Mount Solomon, one of the mountain ridges of mountains of Eilat.