A short account of the Golan Heights, given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide The Golan Heights is a beautiful elevated volcanic terrain, rising between 1,200 and 3,700 feet above sea level. Lava and ash that erupted during the last three million years (the latest one, being only 4,000 years ago) covered the [...]
A short account of Mt. Hermon, given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide Mt. Hermon is the highest and the most unique mountain in the country. It stands at the southern end of the 150 km (83 mi.) long Anti-Lebanon Range and ay the north end of the Golan Heights. The part of [...]
A short account of Tzfat (Safed), given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide Tzfat is located high in the mountains of the Galilee, 2,900 ft. above sea level. This is the reason why it has very nice weather most of the year. Perhaps this is also why Tzfat has been considered a highly [...]
A short account of Tzippori (Sepphoris), given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide Tzippori sits like a bird (tzippor in Hebrew) at the top of a hill in the center of the Lower Galilee, with a 360 degree- view stretching for miles. This is the reason why in the Middle Ages the Crusaders [...]
A short account of Mt. Carmel, given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide Mt. Carmel is a 24-mile-long ridge, beginning at the mountains of Samaria, and stretching northwest all the way to the city of Haifa, where it ends in the Mediterranean. Usually, we refer only to the northern 12 miles of it, between [...]
A short account of the Carmel Market area, given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide Located in the very center of Tel Aviv and close to Jaffa, the biggest open market in the metropolitan area attracts many thousands of people every day, and especially close to the weekends. It was started in 1920 by [...]
A short account of the Ayalon Institute, given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide What is the Ayalon Institute? In 1941, while the German army was getting close to Palestine, the British agreed to let the Jewish community in the country participate in the war efforts. They opened a training base, and hundreds of [...]
A short account of the Palmach Museum, given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide What is the Palmach? In 1941, while the German army was getting close to Palestine, the British agreed to let the Jewish community in the country participate in the war efforts. They opened a training base and hundreds of [...]
A short account of Independence Hall, given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide History In 1910, Meir Dizengoff and his wife Zina built their home in the small neighborhood that was then called Tel Aviv. After Dizengoff was elected as the mayor of the city in 1921, the house was renovated a few [...]
A short account of the City of Jaffa, given by your Israel & Jerusalem private tour guide History Jaffa has been known as a port city in the central part of the country since 1800 BCE. Since then, it has been under the rule of every conqueror of this country, no fewer than 20 of [...]
