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Israel Travel Guide
Israel is located in Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea between Egypt and Lebanon and Tel Aviv is the capital city. Israel was born after UN partitioned Palestine into Arab and Jewish state when the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine.
Since 1517 to 1917 Turkey’s Ottoman Empire controlled a majority of land now in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine but during the First World War Turkey supported Germany in 1914 to 1918. When the Germans were defeated so were the Turks and the control of the southern part of their Ottoman Empire was mandated to France and Britain in 1916. Under the Sykes-Picot Agreement the Arab regions were divided into zones of influence like Lebanon and Syria were assigned to France and Palestine (present Jordan, Israel and West Bank) was assigned or mandated to Great Britain.
Because no other people had established a national homeland in Palestine and the Jews had done it 2000 years before, so Britain looked favorably upon the creation of a Jewish National Homeland throughout all of Palestine.
Attractions in Cities Jerusalem
Old City of Jerusalem, Western (Wailing) Wall, Dome of the Rock (al-Haram al-Sharif), Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, Mount of Olives, Garden Tomb, Temple Mount, Israel Museum, Tower of David Museum, Damascus (Shechem) Gate, Bible Lands Museum, Dominus Flevit, Dormition Abbey, Ophel Archaeological Garden (Yitzhak Ben Youssef Levy Garden), Mount Herzl, Fink’s, Jaffa Gate (Bab al-Khalil), Distant Mosque (Al-Aqsa), Ramparts Walk, Via Dolorosa (Way of the Cross), Ben Yahuda Street, Garden of Gethsemane, Jewish Quarter (Cardo), Church of Condemnation and Flagellation, Muslim Quarter, Western (Wailing) Wall Tunnel, Church of Nations (Basilica of the Agony), El Asa Mosque, Monastery of the Cross, Armenian Quarter, Moses Montefiore Windmill, Yemin Moshe Quarter, Ein Gedi Spa, Kidron Valley, Broad Wall, Herodian Quarter/Wohl Archaeological Museum, Room of the Last Supper, Ammunition Hill Memorial & Museum (Givat Ha-Tachmoshet), Church of St. Anne, L.A. Mayer Memorial Museum of Islamic Art, Nohon Museum of Italian Jewish Art, Museum of Taxes, Tisch Family Zoological Gardens (Biblic Zoo), Kennedy Memorial, Second Temple Period Model, Karaite Synagogue, Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue, Paternoster Church, Burnt House, Old Yishuv Court Museum, Wohl Museum of Archaeology, Kiftzova, Jerusalem International YMCA, International Cultural Center for Youth, Tayelet Hass Promenade, Rothberg Amphitheater, American Colony Cemetery, Independence Park, Mount Scopus Botanical Garden, Wohl Rose Garden, Liberty Bell Park, Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery, Protestant Cemetery, Belz Synagogue, Jerusalem Baptist Church, Four Sephardic Synagogues, St. Saviour Parish church, Church of Saint Peter in Gallicantu and Jerusalem Llamas.
Tel Aviv
Museum of the Jewish Diaspora (Bet Hatefutsoth), Nachlat Binyamin Pedestrian Mall, Eretz Israel Museum Complex (Haaretz Museum), Independence Hall Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Carmel Market (ShUK Ha’Carmel), Neve Tzedek, Old Jaffa, Eckman, Yarkon River and Park Hayarkon, Ben-Gurion House, Saint Peter Church, Bet Bailik Museum, Tel Aviv Brewhouse, Bet Rubin Museum, Jabotinsky Museum, Migdal Shalom Tower (Tower of Peace), Andromeda’s Rock, The Great Synagogue, Ramses II’s Gate Garden, Beit Gidi Etzel Museum 1947-48, Dizengoff Fountain, Water Creatures, The Jaffa Clock Tower, Irit, Nachum Gutman Museum, Jaffa Flea Market, Jerusalem, Beach, Kabbalah Learning Center, Florentine, Tayelet, Samy D., Frishman Beach, Dizengoff Street, Azrieli Observatory, Opera Tower, Azrieli Center, The Promenade, Mini Israel, Old Tel Aviv Port Area, Kikar Kedumim, Jordan River (Upper), Free Zone, Ilana Goor Residence and Museum, Mann Auditorium (Habimah Square), Palmach Museum, Clock Tower, Itzhak Rabin Monument, Israel Army Museum, Sheinkin Street, Levinski Market, Gan Meir Park, Gordon Health Club, Park Darom, Tel Aviv Marine and Sea Center, Founders Monument and Fountain, Givatayim Observatory and Garden, Habimah Square, Hagana Museum, Harry Oppenheimer Diamond Museum, Kikar Magen David, Dizengoff Center, Museum of Antiquities (Jaffa Museum), Museum of the History of Tel Aviv, Yemenite Quarter, Rokach House Museum, Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center, Shalom Aleichem House and Helena Rubinstein Pavilion (Habimah Square).
