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Yitzhak Rabin Centre
Established in 1997 to promote democratic values, narrow socio-economic gaps and address social divisiveness, this centre is also home to the Israeli Museum , which includes 150 films and 1500 photographs telling the story of modern Israel’s struggle for peace with its neighbours.
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Ben
In his will, Israels founding father asked that the modest kibbutz quarters where he lived with his wife Paula remained exactly as he left them, and that’s what you see when you visit this house museum. A short animated film about the great mans life is shown near the entrance, rec
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Abuhav Synagogue
Named after the 15th-century Spanish scholar Rabbi Yitzhak Abuhav, this synagogue was founded in the 16th century but moved to its present location after the 1759 earthquake. The ornately carved courtyard, restored in the late 20th century, is often used for weddings. Inside, the f
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Galil Nature Center
This first-rate regional museum, run by the SPNI, has two sections. In the old-fashioned but informative (and, in its own way, beautiful) natural history room, you can get a close-up look at (stuffed) butterflies, birds and mammals that you’re not likely to encounter in the wild. T
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HaMeiri Museum
Housed in a 150-year-old building that once served as the seat of Tsfat’s rabbinical court, this museum illustrates Jewish life in Tsfat during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Exhibits include unique household and Jewish ritual objects made by local tinsmiths using empty kerosen
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Mosque of the Ascension (Chapel of the Ascension)
Its easy to overlook this chapel, which is diminutive and decrepit. Thought to mark the site where Jesus ascended to heaven (Luke 24:50-51), it was built in the Byzantine era, reworked by the Crusaders and then converted to a mosque by Saladin in 1198. In its present form, it is a
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Church of All Nations
Glistening golden mosaics mark the facade of this neoclassical Franciscan church built on the site of the Garden of Gethsemene and dedicated in 1924. The mosaic depicts Jesus assuming the suffering of the world, hence one of the church’s alternative names – the Sanctuary of the Ago
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Caesarea National Park
Caesarea National Park has two entrances: the northern (Crusader gate) entrance, which takes you through the Crusader ramparts to the harbour and its restaurants; and, 600m to the south, the southern (Roman Theatre) entrance. Coach tours often drop visitors off at one and pick them
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Old Port
Originally opened in 1936, Tel Avivs port went into decline with the construction of a better, deeper harbour at Ashdod in the 1960s. In the early 2000s the Tel Aviv municipality finally overhauled the area, creating a wide wooden boardwalk, including playgrounds and bike paths, an
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Church of the Primacy of St Peter
A few hundred metres to the east, a shady, fragrant garden leads down to the water’s edge and this Franciscan chapel – lit by the vivid colours of abstract stained glass – built in 1933. The flat rock in front of the altar was known to Byzantine pilgrims as Mensa Christi (Christ’s
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Yemin Moshe
Home to the landmark Montefiore Windmill , built in 1875 to provide the basis for a Jewish flour industry, this leafy neighbourhood was part of a scheme developed by English philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore, who visited the Holy Land seven times in the mid-19th century. Hoping t
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Christ Church
This was the Holy Land’s first Protestant church, consecrated in 1849. Located opposite the Citadel, it was built by the London Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews, whose founders were inspired by the belief that the Jews would be restored to what was then Turkish Pal
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Monastery of the Cross
This fortress-like monastery in the valley below the Israel Museum was founded in the early 4th century CE by King Bagrat of Georgia to commemorate the tradition that Jesus’s cross was constructed from a tree that grew here. Bagrats monastery was destroyed by the Persians in 614, r
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‘The Situation of Man’
Atop a bluff overlooking the Dead Sea Works stands this modern sculpture, a rusty steel column with old steel railway ties striving to climb it like desperate worms. Next to the sculpture, a viewpoint looks out over a crazy juxtaposition of smoke-spewing heavy industry, electric-bl
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Rockefeller Museum
Though overlooked by many visitors to the city, this archaeological museum is well worth a visit. Exhibits date from prehistoric times through to the Middle Ages and are presented chronologically. They include carved 12th-century lintels from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, detai
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Timna Park
The colourful sands and craggy mountains of the Timna Valley, 25km north of Eilat, are full of minerals including copper, iron and manganese. This park incorporates traces from one of the worlds first copper mines, and is home to thousands of ancient mining shafts, the remains of s
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Tomb of Rabbi Meir Ba’al HaNess
A complex of religious buildings has grown around the reputed burial place of Rabbi Meir Baal HaNess, a 2nd-century sage often cited in the Mishnah (baal ha-ness means master of miracles). The tomb itself, with separate, curtained entrances for men and women, is inside a domed Seph
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Church of the Pater Noster
There has been a church on this site since the 4th century CE, when Queen Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine, organised for one to be built over a cave in which Jesus was thought to have spoken to his disciples. The Crusaders, who believed that the cave was in fact where Jesus t
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Notre Dame de France Hospice
Who knows what the Roman Catholic Assumpionist Fathers had in mind when they set about building the Notre Dame de France Hospice in 1884. Whether it’s the predominant use of stone or the result of a paranoiac defensiveness that comes from having so many different creeds and sects v
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Acre Underground Prisoners Museum
Dedicated to Jewish armed resistance during the British Mandate, this museum occupies a massive structure built by the Turks in the late 18th century on 13th-century Crusader foundations and used as a prison by both the Ottomans and the British. People jailed here included Revision
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