Remains of the Crusader fortress from the 12th century which Daher el-Amr (1694-1775) rebuilt in the local black basalt in 1738.

Labels: Nahal Poleg Nature Reserve, Nature Reserves a small stream in the Central Coastal Plain (HaSharon) south of Netanya.

Plain of Manasseh (Ramat Menashe). Named after Joop Westerweel (1899-1944) the forest was planted in 1954 with the help of the Jewish National Fund.Westerweel was a central figure in the underground movement of Jewish pioneers (Halutzim).He and his friends bound their own fate with that of the Halutzim and founded a non-violent underground group in […]

Safed (other English spellings Zefat, Safad, Tsfat etc.) is a city located in the Upper-Galilee. It is the highest city in Israel (900m) and one of the four holy cities of the Talmud, together with Jerusalem, Hebron and Tiberias. The Talmud refers to the city as Tzefiya, and in the Second Temple it was fortified […]

Labels: Jerusalem, Jewish Quarter Built in 1871 with funds provided by Baron Wolf Rothschild of Frankfurt to house poor families

The Church of St. Anne is a Roman Catholic church in the Muslim Quarter of the old city of Jerusalem.

The shrine of Sayyidna Ali. South of Arsuf-Apollonia, on the western edge of Herzliya, at the top of a limestone hill overlooking the sea, stands a rectangular fortress-like building, commonly known as Mashad Sayyidna Ali. It is the burial site of al-Hasan ibn Ali, who was a descendant of the second Muslim Caliph Umar ibn […]

At the onset of the war on independence Ramla was an Arab city with a population of 18,000 residents.The main route from Tel-Aviv and from Jaffa to Jerusalem passed through Ramla, Which was blocked for the Jewish transportation.As part of the activities launched to take control of the Jerusalem route, The IZL (Irgun Zvai Le’umi […]

Franciscan church located in Tabgha, on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee. The miracle event believed to have occurred at Tabgha is the third appearance of Jesus after his death, as related in John 21:4-17. The church, which commemorates those events, is called both St Peter and the Chapel of the Primacy. The […]

Labels: Beit Jamal Monastery, Judean Hills or Beit Jimal.A Catholic monastery located in the Judean hills next to the city of Beit Shemesh.

Labels: British War Cemetery, Jerusalem, Map, Mount Scopus British Military Cemetery

Labels: Jaffa, Tel Aviv-Yafo Coastal cannon from the Ottoman period (1515-1917) recovered in Jaffa’s port

also known as Al-Omari Mosque.In the 12th century the building served as the Crusader cathedral of Ramla.According to an inscription of Baybars it serves as a mosque from 1268.An inscription dates the present minaret to 1314.

The Old Market Quarter is between Agrippa Street, Mahane Yehuda Street and Jaffa Road, half a mile west of Zion Square. The outdoor market, where you’ll find all sorts of fish, meat, vegetables, fruit and odds and ends.  On Friday, the place is really extremely active as people stock up on supplies for Shabbat. It […]