Phasael Tower One would expect that the partially preserved massive Citadel of Jerusalem, now called the Phasael Tower, would be the popular choice as the object to represent The Tower of David and Jerusalem. ...
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Shimon Bar Kokhba Exhibit – Eretz Israel Museum
The Eretz Israel Museum Bar Kokhba Exhibit has chosen to present the controversial Shimon Bar Kokhba in all the manners in which he was perceived in Jewish tradition. The Tannaim (Rabbinic sages) were ...
Read More »The Yigal Alon Museum
Beit Yigal Alon Museum The Beit Yigal Alon Museum is located on the grounds of Kibbutz Ginnosar, by the Sea of the Galilee. The Museum is named after Yigal Alon ...
Read More »The Inn of the Good Samaritan
Museum of the Good Samaritan The Museum of the Good Samaritan, one of the world’s largest archaeological mosaic museums, features an open-air display of mosaics and archaeological findings from both Jewish ...
Read More »Museum of Philistine Culture
A visit to the Museum of Philistine Culture is a family adventure. Although I am Jewish, I must have had the luck of the Irish. Imagine a private tour with ...
Read More »Migdal Shalom Tower Tel Aviv
Migdal Shalom Tower Migdal Shalom was Israel’s first 33 story skyscraper,completed in 1965. The tower stands on the site of the Herzliya Hebrew High School. Despite the school’s architectural and historical ...
Read More »Chagall Windows
Marc Chagall Marc Chagall, born in Byelorussia to a poor Hassidic family went to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study art. From 1910 to 1914, Chagall lived in Paris and later from ...
Read More »Ghetto Fighters’ House – My Personal Museum
The Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum, better known as Beit Lohamei Hagetaot is officially named the Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum was founded in 1949. Many tourists on ...
Read More »Hatachana Compound
Today you can visit a multi-attraction culture, business and entertainment center full of cafes, galleries and designer clothing shops in what was once the end of Israel’s first railway line, built in ...
Read More »The Jerusalem Museum for Islamic Art
Islamic cultural heritage has its home in Israel at the L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem, which features ancient collections along exhibitions of modern Arab-Israeli artists. The ...
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