Israel
Israel is a compact crossroads nation bridging Europe, Asia, and Africa, offering an intensely concentrated mix of ancient history, religious significance, and modern cosmopolitan life. It is best known for Jerusalem’s Old City, Tel Aviv’s Mediterranean beaches and nightlife, and the Dead Sea.
Cities & regions
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Acre, known as Akko in Hebrew and Akka in Arabic, is a walled port city on the northern end of Haifa Bay on Israel's Mediterranean coast, roughly 30 minutes…
Open guideAshdod is a modern Mediterranean port city about 32 km south of Tel Aviv, Israel's sixth-largest city with roughly 220,000 residents and the country's bigges…
Open guideAshkelon is a coastal city in Israel's Southern District, about 20 km south of Ashdod and roughly 50 km from Tel Aviv, built along some 12 km of Mediterranea…
Open guideBeersheba, Be'er Sheva in Hebrew, is the capital of the Negev and the gateway to southern Israel, a city of roughly 200,000 people about 55 miles (90 km) fro…
Open guideHaifa is Israel's third-largest city and its great northern port, built in tiers up the slope of Mount Carmel above a curving Mediterranean bay. The city rea…
Open guideJerusalem is a city of roughly a million people built across the Judean hills at about 800 m, and one of the densest concentrations of history anywhere on ea…
Open guideNazareth is the largest Arab city in Israel, a hill town of around 80,000 people in the Lower Galilee, roughly two-thirds Muslim and one-third Christian. For…
Open guideTel Aviv is Israel's coastal metropolis and its cultural and economic engine, a young, secular, restless counterweight to Jerusalem an hour inland. Founded i…
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