Rosh HaNikra
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...
Acre
Acre (called Akko in Hebrew) is a city in the Galilee, located north of Haifa on the northern shore of Haifa Bay...
Haifa
Known 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...
Mount Arbel
The 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...
Tiberias
Tiberias 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...
Hebron
One of the four holy cities of Judaism Hebron is often in the news due to its complex and abnormal mix of populations...
Ashdod
Israel’s major port city, Ashdod is perhaps most famous for “Givat Yonah” (Jonah’s Hill) which is the traditional site where the sea-faring prophet...
Beer Sheva
Beer Sheva is the town most highly identified with the Patriarchs, being the residence of Isaac and Jacob. Abraham, in fact, named the city by...
Petra
Petra is a historic and archaeological city in the Jordanian governorate of Ma'an that has rock cut architecture and a water conduits system...
Nabi Musa
It is a site in the Judean desert that Palestinian folklore relates to Moses. Another connection between the cousin religions is found in the...
Megiddo
Megiddo is one of the most important archaeological sites in all of Israel. There is another more disturbing association: Megiddo is known as...
Bethlehem
Bethlehem, 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...
Caesarea
The 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.
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.
Kinneret
Israel's beautiful lake in the northern Galilee, called "Kinneret" in Hebrew, is a wonderland of nature, history and tradition.
Masada
Visit 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.
Negev
One visit to the desert in Israel, and you will understand why Monotheism and the Jewish People were both born in the desert.
Mitzpe Ramon
Near the Ramon Crater, a miracle of nature attracting tourists and Israelis all year round, “Mitzpe Ramon” (Ramon Lookout) is a town in Israel’s southern desert, the Negev.
Tel Aviv
Israel'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.
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean is an inter-continental sea that spans from the Atlantic Ocean (its western neighbor) to Asia on the east. It separates Europe from Africa and has been referred to as the...
Netanya
Often called “the “Riviera of Israel,” Netanya is a true resort town in every sense of the word. Many hotels dot its coastline served by charming cafes, outdoor performances in an amphitheater...
Ben Gurion International Airport
Most road signs in Israel are written in both Hebrew and Latin lettering, and thus most tourists are able to read them.
The Dead Sea
The 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...
The Golan Heights
The 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).
Banias
A 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...
Mount Hermon
Mt. Hermon is one of the ridges in what is called the Anti-Lebanon Mountain range...
Nimrod’s Fortress
Nimrod’s fortress overlooks the Hula Valley. Referred to as “probably the most exquisite ruins in the world,” by Mark Twain, the fortress was ...
Safed
Safed (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.
Hamat Gader
Beginnings 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.
Galilee
Without the stroll on the water, the word Galilee would probably not have become a household word.
Belvoir
Not to be confused with the elegant castle in England, the Belvoir Fortress, known in Hebrew as “Kohav HaYarden” (Star of the Jordan), is located on the Naphtali plateau...
Beit Shean
If the archaeology is to be trusted, and it generally is, Beit She’an was first populated more than 6000 years during the Chalcolithic Period, making it one of the oldest cities in Israel.
Avdat
The 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...
Sde Boker
A kibbutz built in the northern mountains of the Negev Desert, Sde Boker was home to Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben Gurion and his wife Paula. It was established on May 15, 1952 on the...
Timna
Timna 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...
Eilat
There are signs of habitation in Eilat more than 10,000 years ago. ...
Ashkelon
Ashkelon is a 45-minute drive south from Tel Aviv and about an hour from Jerusalem. With gorgeous beaches on the Mediterranean Sea, Ashkelon is one of the last stops on the coast before reaching the border with Gaza...
Sderot
Sderot was established in 1951 as a transit camp for Kurdish, Moroccan and Persian Jews. “Sderot,” the Hebrew word for boulevard, was recognized as a local council in 1956...
Gaza
the largest city in the Palestinian Territories, Gaza City was founded some 5000 years ago (which makes it one of the oldest cities in the world). The name is thought to be derived from the Canaanite word for “stronghold.”
Rehovot
The population in Rehovot is a mixed bag, and pluralistic in nature. Its population is an even split between religious and secular...
Gezer
Located in the “Shfelah” (lowland), and famous for its baseball field (!) Gezer is a kibbutz located between Modi’in, Ramle and Rehovot. Its land was purchased in 1945 by the philanthropic society Ancient Order of Maccabeans in England...
Jericho
Near the Jordan River in what is now the Palestinian Territories, Jericho is mentioned in the Old Testament as a city of palm trees and springs. The city was made famous by Joshua...
Kiryat Shmona
A development town on the northern tip of the Hula Valley, Kiryat Shmona is one of the last frontiers. Faced regularly with fallout from tense relations with Lebanon to the north...
Tel Chai
Associated with the Hashomer movement, Tel Chai was established in 1918 near the northern-most tip of what later became the State of Israel, with its only neighbor being the small settlement of Kfar Giladi many kilometers away...
Atlit
Located on the Mediterranean coast, about 15 miles south of Haifa, Atlit served as a detention camp for Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe who arrived on Israel’s shores during the British Mandate...
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