ISRAEL TRAVEL & ADVENTURE BLOG

Jaffa is One of the World’s Oldest Cities An Ancient City Jaffa is one of the world’s oldest cities, with a harbor that has been in use since the Bronze Age. The city’s history is connected to a series of successive conquests that rocked Israel through the millennia. In biblical times, Jaffa was ruled by the...

Capernaum fishing village Capernaum was the center of Jesus activities in the Galilee and his town during that time. Jesus taught in the local synagogue. It was also the home town of the apostles Peter, James, Andrew and John, and the tax collector Matthew. In the New Testament, it is stated that Jesus preached at the...

Turned water into wine miracle The Arab village of Kafr Cana in the Lower Galilee is known in Christian tradition as Cana of the Galilee. It was mentioned in the New Testament as a place where Jesus performed his firs miracle, when he went to a wedding of a poor couple and turned water into wine. In the 17th century Kafr...

Nazareth  Nazareth — the hometown of Jesus, now the largest Arab city in Israel. Nazareth lays in the lower Galilee and not far from the lake of the Sea of Galilee, is a small city of mainly modern appearance. Nazareth is a mix of races and religions.

Agritech Eexhibition 2015 in Israel Since Israel’s early days the country’s agriculture sector has been forced to provide its citizenry with advanced solutions. Based on its accumulated experience, Israel is poised to play a major role in supplying the world with cutting-edge agriculture solutions. For the past 30 years Agritech Israel has brought together over...

Whilst Israel is relatively new country,the land has a long and often very complex history stretching back thousands of years to the very beginnings of human civilization. It has been invaded by virtually every empire worth its salt including the Persians, Romans Ottomans and the British. It is also the birthplace of both Judaism and...

Israel is a small yet diverse Middle Eastern country with a long coastline on the eastern Mediterranean Sea and a small window on the Red Sea at the Gulf of Eilat (Aqaba). Israel is bordered by Egypt and the Gaza Strip to the southwest, by Jordan and the West Bank to the east, and by Syria...

Akko (Acre) — a fascinating historical city on the far north coast of Israel, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a pilgrimage site for the Bahá'ís. Beer Sheva — the capital of the Negev region. Eilat — the 'Goa of the Middle East', Israel's window on the Red Sea, a vibrant resort city. Haifa — Israel's third largest city,...