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Places to see in Israel

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  AcreUNESCO

  עכו

  Town · Northern District

  Acre, known in Hebrew as Akko and in Arabic as Akka, is a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern District of Israel.

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  MasadaUNESCO

  מצדה

  Ruins · Southern District

  Masada is a mountain-top fortress complex in the Judaean Desert, overlooking the western shore of the Dead Sea in southeastern Israel.

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  Tel MegiddoUNESCO

  גן לאומי תל מגידו

  Ruins · Northern District

  Tel Megiddo is the site of the ancient city of Megiddo, the remains of which form a tell or archaeological mound, situated in northern Israel at the western edge of the Jezreel Valley.

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  White CityUNESCO

  White City of Tel-Aviv

  Heritage site · Tel Aviv District

  The White City is a collection of over 4,000 buildings in Tel Aviv from the 1930s built in a unique form of the International Style, commonly known as Bauhaus, by German Jewish architects who fled to the British Mandate of Palestine from Germany after the rise to power of the Nazis.

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  Shrine of the BábUNESCO

  כיפת הבאב

  Religious · Haifa District

  The Shrine of the Báb is a structure on the slopes of Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel, where the remains of the Báb, founder of the Bábí Faith and forerunner of Baháʼu'lláh in the Baháʼí Faith, are buried; it is considered to be the second holiest place on Earth for Baháʼís, after the Shrine of…

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  Beit She'arim necropolisUNESCO

  גן לאומי בית שערים

  Ruins · Haifa District

  Beit She'arim Necropolis is an extensive rock-cut necropolis located near the ancient Jewish town of Beit She'arim, 20 km east of Haifa in the southern foothills of the Lower Galilee. Part of Beit She'arim National Park, the site includes the necropolis and remains of the town.

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  Tel Aviv

  תל אביב–יפו

  City · Tel Aviv District

  Tel Aviv, officially Tel Aviv-Yafo, and also known as Tel Aviv-Jaffa, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel.

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  Nazareth

  الناصرة

  Town · Northern District

  Nazareth is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. In 2024 its population was 75,704. Known as "the Arab capital of Israel", Nazareth serves as a cultural, political, religious, economic and commercial center for the Arab citizens of Israel.

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  Sea of Galilee

  ימת הכנרת

  Lake · Northern District

  The Sea of Galilee, also called Lake Tiberias, Genezareth Lake or Kinneret, is a freshwater lake in northeast Israel. It is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth and the second-lowest lake in the world, with its elevation fluctuating between 215 and 209 metres below sea level.

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  Capernaum

  כפר נחום

  Ruins · Northern District

  Capernaum was a fishing village established during the time of the Hasmoneans in Israel, located on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. It had a population of about 1,500 in the 1st century AD. Archaeological excavations have revealed two ancient synagogues built successively at the same spot.

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  Yad Vashem

  יד ושם

  Museum · Jerusalem District

  Yad Vashem is Israel's official memorial institution to the victims of the Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה).

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  Mount Tabor

  הר תבור

  Mountain · Northern District

  Mount Tabor, sometimes spelled Mount Thabor, is a large hill of biblical significance in the Lower Galilee, Israel, at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, 18 kilometres west of the Sea of Galilee.

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Jerusalem

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  Al-Aqsa MosqueUNESCO

  מסגד אל אקצא

  Religious · Jerusalem

  The Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque, is the main congregational mosque or prayer hall in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem.

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  Solomon's StablesUNESCO

  اسطبلات سليمان

  Religious · Jerusalem

  Al-Marwani Mosque or Marwani Musalla, prior to its renovation it was known as Al-Masjid Al-Qadim is an underground vaulted mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound in Jerusalem.

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  Walls of JerusalemUNESCO

  Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls

  Park & nature · Jerusalem

  The Walls of Jerusalem surround the Old City of Jerusalem. In 1535, when Jerusalem was part of the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ordered the ruined city walls to be rebuilt. The walls were constructed between 1537 and 1541.

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• Western WallUNESCO

  הכותל המערבי

  Ruins · Jerusalem

  The Western Wall is an ancient retaining wall of the built-up hill known to Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount of Jerusalem.

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  Jerusalem

  ירושלים | القدس

  City · Jerusalem

  Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the oldest cities in the world and is considered a holy city to the three major Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

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  Church of All Nations

  كنيسة كل الأمم

  Ruins · Jerusalem

  The Church of All Nations, also known as the Church of Gethsemane or the Basilica of the Agony, is a Catholic church located on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, next to the Garden of Gethsemane. It enshrines a section of bedrock where Jesus is said to have prayed before his arrest.

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  Church of the Holy Sepulchre

  كنيسة القيامة

  Religious · Jerusalem

  The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.

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  Gethsemane

  حديقة الجثسيماني

  Garden · Jerusalem

  Gethsemane is a garden as well as a courtyard at the foot of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion.

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  Mount of Olives

  הר הזיתים

  Mountain · Jerusalem

  The Mount of Olives or Mount Olivet is a mountain ridge in East Jerusalem, east of and adjacent to Jerusalem's Old City. It is named for the olive groves that once covered its slopes. The southern part of the mount was the Silwan necropolis, attributed to the elite of the ancient Kingdom of Judah.

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  Mount Scopus

  הר הצופים

  Mountain · Jerusalem

  Mount Scopus is a mountain located in Jerusalem with an elevation of 826 meters (2,710 ft) above sea level.

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  Tomb of the Virgin Mary

  قبر السيدة العذراء مريم

  Religious · Jerusalem

  Church of the Sepulchre of Saint Mary, also Tomb of the Virgin Mary or the Church of the Assumption, is a Christian church built around an ancient Judean rock-cut tomb in the Kidron Valley – at the foot of Mount of Olives, in East Jerusalem – believed by Christians to be the burial place of Mary,…

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