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1,186 Articles of interest in Israel

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  • Mount Carmel forest fire (2010)

    The Mount Carmel forest fire (Hebrew: אסון הכרמל Ason HaKarmel, "The Carmel Disaster") was a deadly forest fire that started on Mount Carmel in northern Israel, just south of Haifa. The fire began at about 11:00 local time on 2 December 2010, and sp…

  • Triangle (Israel)

    The Triangle (Hebrew: המשולש‎, HaMeshulash; Arabic: المثلث‎, al-Muthallath), formerly referred to as the Little Triangle, is a concentration of Israeli Arab towns and villages adjacent to the Green Line, located in the eastern Sharon plain among the…

  • Port of Haifa

    The Port of Haifa is the largest of Israel's three major international seaports, which include the Port of Ashdod, and the Port of Eilat. It has a natural deep water harbor which operates all year long, and serves both passenger and merchant ships. …

  • Mount of Beatitudes

    The Mount of Beatitudes (Hebrew: Har HaOsher הר האושר) refers to a hill in northern Israel where Jesus is believed to have delivered the Sermon on the Mount.

  • Ramat Gan Stadium

    Ramat Gan Stadium (Hebrew: איצטדיון רמת גן‎, Itztadion Ramat Gan) is a football stadium in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel, it serves as the National stadium of Israel, and until 2014 the home stadium of Israel national football team.

  • Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing

    The Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing, also called the Sbarro massacre, was a Palestinian terrorist attack on a pizzeria in downtown Jerusalem on 9 August 2001, in which 15 civilians were killed, including 7 children and a pregnant woman, and 130 wo…

  • Gezer

    Gezer (Hebrew: גֶּזֶר) was a Canaanite city-state in the foothills of the Judaean Mountains at the border of the Shfela region. Tel Gezer (also Tell el-Jezer), an archaeological site midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, is now an Israeli national …

  • The Sergeants affair

    The Sergeants affair (Hebrew: פרשת הסרג'נטים‎) was an incident that took place in Mandate Palestine in July 1947 during Jewish insurgency in Palestine, in which the Jewish underground group Irgun kidnapped two British Army Intelligence Corps NCOs, S…

  • Rosh HaAyin

    Rosh HaAyin (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הָעָיִן Hebrew pronunciation: [ˌroʃ häˈʔä.in], lit. Fountainhead) is a city in the Center District of Israel. To the west of Rosh HaAyin is the fortress of Antipatris and the source of the Yarkon River. To the southeast is…

  • Qesem Cave

    Qesem Cave is a Lower Paleolithic archeological site 12 km east of Tel Aviv in Israel. Early humans were occupying the site by 382,000 until c.

  • Mitzpe Ramon

    Mitzpe Ramon (Hebrew: מִצְפֵּה רָמוֹן, lit. Ramon Lookout) is a town in the Negev desert of southern Israel. The name Ramon comes from the Arabic "Ruman" meaning Romans. It is situated on the northern ridge at an elevation of 860 meters (2,800 feet)…

  • Ekron

    The city of Ekron (Hebrew: עֶקְרוֹן ʿeqrōn, also transliterated Accaron), was one of the five cities of the famed Philistine pentapolis, located in southwestern Canaan.

  • Rabin Square

    Rabin Square (Hebrew: כיכר רבין‎, Kikar Rabin), formerly Kings of Israel Square (Hebrew: כיכר מלכי ישראל‎, Kikar Malkhey Yisrael), is a large public city square in the center of Tel Aviv, Israel. Over the years it has been the site of numerous polit…

  • Cellcom (Israel)

    Cellcom (TASE: CEL, NYSE: CEL)(Hebrew: סלקום) is Israel's largest telecommunications company. Founded in 1994, most of the company's business is centered on wireless service. Cellcom was the first to market mobile phones with Hebrew language menus.

  • Neve Tzedek

    Neve Tzedek (Hebrew: נְוֵה צֶדֶק, lit. Abode of Justice) is a neighborhood located in southwestern Tel Aviv, Israel. It was the first Jewish neighborhood to be built outside the walls of the ancient port of Jaffa. For years, the neighborhood prosper…

  • Moshe Aviv Tower

    Moshe Aviv Tower (Hebrew: מגדל משה אביב‎), is a 235 m (771 ft) tall skyscraper located in the demarcated area of the Bursa (Israel Diamond Exchange) on Jabotinsky Road (No. 7) in northern Ramat Gan, Israel. The 68-story building is commonly known as…

  • Givatayim

    Givatayim (Hebrew: גִּבְעָתַיִם, lit. "two hills", Arabic: جفعاتايم‎) is a city in Israel east of Tel Aviv. It is part of the metropolitan area known as Gush Dan. Givatayim was established in 1922 by pioneers of the Second Aliyah.

  • Church of the Transfiguration

    The Church of the Transfiguration (Hebrew: כנסיית ההשתנות‎) is a Franciscan church located on Mount Tabor in Israel. It is traditionally believed to be the site where the Transfiguration of Christ took place, an event in the Gospels in which Jesus i…

  • Arsuf

    Arsuf (Hebrew: אַרְסוּף , ארשוף , "Arshooph", "Arsoof" ; Arabic: أرْسُوف‎, "ʾArsūf"), also known as Arsur or Apollonia (Ancient Greek Απολλωνία), was an ancient city and fortress located in Israel, about 15 kilometres north of modern Tel Aviv, on a …

  • Rothschild Boulevard

    Rothschild Boulevard (Hebrew: שְׂדֵרוֹ‏ת רוֹטשִׁילד, Sderot Rotshild) is one of the principal streets in the center of Tel Aviv, Israel, beginning in Neve Tzedek at its southwestern edge and running north to Habima Theatre. It is one of the most exp…

  • Battle of Ammunition Hill

    Ammunition Hill (Hebrew: גבעת התחמושת‎, Giv'at HaTahmoshet) was a fortified Jordanian military post in the northern part of Jordanian-occupied East Jerusalem. It was the site of one of the fiercest battles of the Six-Day War.

  • Bahá'í World Centre buildings

    The Bahá'í World Centre buildings are buildings that are part of the Bahá'í World Centre in Israel. The Bahá'í World Centre buildings include both the Bahá'í holy places used for pilgrimage and the international administrative bodies of the Bahá'í F…

  • Wadi Araba Crossing

    The Wadi Araba Border Crossing (Arabic: تقاطع وادي عربة‎, Hebrew: מעבר-גבול ערבה‎) is an international border crossing between Aqaba, Jordan and Eilat, Israel. Opened on August 8, 1994, it is currently one of three entry/exit points between the two …

  • Palmachim Airbase

    The Palmachim Air Force Base (Hebrew: בָּסִיס חֵיל-הַאֲוִויר פַּלְמַחִים‎) is an Israeli military facility and spaceport located near the cities of Rishon LeZion and Yavne on the Mediterranean Sea.

  • National Water Carrier of Israel

    The National Water Carrier of Israel (Hebrew: המוביל הארצי‎, HaMovil HaArtzi) is the largest water project in Israel. Its main task is to transfer water from the Sea of Galilee in the north of the country to the highly populated center and arid sout…

  • Belz (Hasidic dynasty)

    Belz is a Hasidic dynasty founded in the town of Belz in Western Ukraine, near the Polish border. The Hasidut was founded in the early 19th century by Rabbi Shalom Rokeach, also known as the Sar Shalom, and led by his son, Rabbi Yissachar Dov, and g…

  • Open University of Israel

    The Open University of Israel (Hebrew: האוניברסיטה הפתוחה‎, HaUniversita HaPtukha) is a distance-education university in Israel. Its administration center is located in the city of Ra'anana.

  • Mosque of Omar (Jerusalem)

    The Mosque of Omar (Arabic: مسجد عمر بن الخطاب‎) in Jerusalem is located opposite the southern courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Muristan. After the Siege of Jerusalem in 637 by the Rashidun army under the command of Abu Ubaidah i…

  • Gergesa

    Gergesa,(32.282N 35.89E) (also Gergasa or the Country of the Gergesenes) is a place on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee located near the modern city of Jerash, Jordan that is described in the New Testament Gospels of Mark, Matthew, and Luke. A…

  • Avdat

    Avdat (Hebrew: עבדת‎, from Arabic: عبدة‎, Abdah), also known as 'Abdah and Ovdat and Obodat, is a site of a ruined Nabataean city in the Negev desert in southern Israel. It was the most important city on the Incense Route after Petra, between the 1s…

  • Yarkon Park

    Yarkon Park (Hebrew: פארק הירקון‎, Park HaYarkon) is a large public urban park in Tel Aviv, Israel, with about sixteen million visitors annually.

  • Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya

    The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (Hebrew: המרכז הבינתחומי הרצליהHaMerkaz HaBein Tkhumi Herzliya; abbreviated IDC Herzliya) is a private, not-for-profit, and nonsectarian, research college in Israel founded in 1994 by Uriel Reichman. It is loc…

  • Haifa Airport

    Haifa International Airport (Hebrew: נְמַל הַתְּעוּפָה חֵיפָה, Namal HaTe'ufa Haifa, also known as U Michaeli Airport) (IATA: HFA, ICAO: LLHA) is an Israeli airport located in Haifa. It is located to the east of the city, close to Kishon Port and Is…