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Mahmoud Mosque (Ahmedi)
Serving Haifas Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, founded in India in 1889, this mosque is on the Mediterranean-facing slopes of Mt Carmel, in the Kababir neighbhourhood.
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Yad Gertrude Kraus
The house of the Vienna-born dancer and artist Gertrude Kraus (1901–77) displays works by all the founders of Ein Hod. Hosts concerts, lectures and other cultural events.
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Okashi Art Museum
Devoted to the works of Avshalom Okashi (1916–80), an influential Israeli painter who lived in Akko for the last half of his life. Also puts on exhibitions of contemporary art.
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Ein Hod Gallery
Shows works by all the colonys plastic artists. If you see something interesting, it might be possible to visit the artists studio. Situated opposite the Janco-Dada Museum.
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Rosh HaNikra Grottoes
Inside the grottoes, lit by the luminescent blue of the Mediterranean, waves crash with awesome power against the bone-white walls. The site is at its most dramatic during stormy weather.
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Universal House of Justice
A domed neoclassical structure with Corinthian columns, the Universal House of Justice is where the Baha’is’ spiritual and administrative affairs are governed. Its closed to the public.
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Metzitzim Beach
Named after a 1972 comedy film, Hof Metzitzim (Peeping Tom Beach) is a family-friendly bay with a small play area for children. It also hosts Friday afternoon beach parties during summer.
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History Museum
The quaint History Museum is housed in a collection of period buildings that lend insight into the pioneer spirit that drove the early Zionist settlers and the obstacles they faced.
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Tiberias Open Air Museum
A pedestrian park featuring creative modern sculptures. Some peoples nostalgic favourite: a blow-up of a 1950s one-lira banknote. Situated along a walkway perpendicular to the shoreline.
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Hassan Bek Mosque
Built in 1916 by Jaffa’s Ottoman governor of the same name, this white limestone mosque built on the border of Tel Aviv and Jaffa has always had symbolic significance for Jaffa’s Arab population.
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Pool of Bethesda
One of the sunken pools accessed from the rear of the St Annes Church compound is traditionally thought to be the biblical Pool of Bethesda where Jesus is said to have healed a sick man (John 5:1-18).
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National Maritime Museum
Undersea archaeological finds, models of ancient ships, coins with maritime themes, Hellenistic figurines and pre-modern navigation technology illustrate 5000 years of shipping in the Mediterranean basin.
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Bar’am National Park
Site of a well-to-do village from the 1st to the 7th centuries CE, Bar’am National Park is best known for its impressive Talmudic period synagogue, solidly built of finely hewn limestone around the year 400 CE.
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Zedekiah’s Cave
A good bit of the stone that makes Jerusalem so famous was excavated from what is today known as Zedekiah’s Cave , a rock quarry and holy site located a short walk east of Damascus Gate, along the Old City wall.
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Haifa City Museum
Near the bottom of Ben-Gurion Ave, a Templer-era structure houses exhibits that focus on history, urbanism, identity, multi-nationalism and multi-culturalism, as befits a city with as rich a cultural tapestry as Haifa.
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Japanese Garden
This lovely little Shinto-style Japanese garden with its serene koi pond was built by members of the Makoya, a Japanese Christian movement whose members have been studying Hebrew at the kibbutz since 1962. Call for a tour.
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Hammam al
Built in 1780 by Al-Jazzar and in use until the 1940s, the richly ornamented marble and tile chambers now play host to a 30-minute multimedia show entitled ‘The Story of the Last Bath Attendant’ (available in eight languages).
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Kibbutz Sdot Yam Antiquities Museum
Relics of ancient Caesarea, including some discovered offshore, are displayed in this three-room archaeological museum. Its inside Kibbutz Sdot Yam, whose main entrance is a few hundred metres east of the parks southern entrance.
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Israelite Tower
Buried beneath a modern apartment block on Shone HaLakhot St and reached by a short flight of steps, the Israelite Tower is a gate tower from the time of the Babylonian siege and destruction of the First Temple (roughly 580 BC).
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Negev Museum of Art
This small art gallery on the edge of the Old City is housed in the elegant Ottoman governor’s mansion, which was built in 1906. The building, which has been beautifully restored, comprises three galleries hosting temporary exhibitions.
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