Masada is an ancient palaces and fortifications on top of an isolated rock plateau in southern Israel.

The Munument to the “Struma” and “Mafkura” in Ashdod commemorates the two illegal immigrant ships that the british refused to allow to enter the country.The “Struma” was sunk in the black sea in February 1942 with 770 illegal immigrants from Romania on board.Only one of the passengers survivrd.The “Mafkura” sailed from the Romanian port of […]

This monument is dedicated to 298 Honourable Turkish army soldiers whoe lost their lives while serving the Turkish State at the Be’er Sheva front between 1914-1918.

9 Ahad Ha’am Street, Tel AvivThis is the original site of the first high-school, known as Gymnasia Herzelya. The tower has an observation deck that affords a great view of the city and mosaics by Nahum Gutman and David Sharir. Nahum Gutman (1898-1978) was born in Romania and immigrated to Israel in 1905. He grew […]

also known as Tel ash-Shamam or Tel El Shamam station.The Kfar Yehoshu’a Railway Station was the largest station between Haifa and Afula.The Jezreel Valley railway was An historical railroad (ceased operating midway through the 20th century) in Ottoman and British Palestine, which was part of the larger Hejaz railway.

Abu Hurayrah, or Abu Horaira (603 – 681) was a companion of prophet Muhammad and his mausoleum is situated at Yavneh.According to tradition the Tomb of Rabban Gamliel is in the same building as the mausoleum of Abu Hurayrah.When Vespasian offered Raban Yochanan anything he wanted, besides Yavneh and its sages – he requested that […]

Hasan Salama or Hassan Salameh (حسن سلامة‎) was a commander of the Palestinian Holy War Army (جيش الجهاد المقدس) in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War along with Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni (Wikipedia).

Herzliya, Hamapilim Boat.Ma’apilim were the so-called illegal immigrants arriving in Israel by boat at the time of the British Mandate.

The Forest of the Martyrs.a large bronze monument, work of sculptor Natan Rappaport.The theme is From Shoah to Redemption, from exile to pogroms, to the horrors of World War II, and then to the rescue of the remnants and the reclaiming of Jewish sovereignty with the establishment of Israel.In the hollow of the scroll is […]

Old City of Jerusalem.This gate was known as the Flower Gate because of the floral designs engraved on its facade. The original gate was known as Bab-a-Sahairad and referred to the Moslem burial ground opposite the gate. A-sahairad means ‘those who do not sleep at night’ and alludes to the future resurrection of those buried […]

Labels: Archeology and History, Golan Heights, Kursi National Park, Map Kursi, Byzantine Christian monastery

also called Ganei Yehoshua park.Yarkon Park is a large public urban park in Tel Aviv.In the first days of the State of Israel Ben Gurion and the former mayor of Tel Aviv, Meir Diezengoff, decided that houses and buildings will not be erected in the area along the banks of the Yarkon River and that […]

The Church of St. John the Baptist belongs to the Franciscan monastery of the same name. The earliest church on the site goes back to the fifth century, over the place traditionally held to be the home of Zacharias and Elisabeth.The Crusaders took over a 11th century church, whose proportions they retained and later used […]