Safed (Hebrew: צְפַת Tzfat, Ashkenazi: Tzfas, Biblical: Ṣ'fath; Arabic: صفد, Ṣafad) is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elevation of 900 metres (2,953 ft), Safed is the highest city in the Galilee and in Israel. Due to its high elevation, Safed experiences warm summers and cold, often snowy, winters.
Population: 27,816
Latitude: 32° 57' 52.74" N
Longitude: 35° 29' 45.60" E
The Quneitra Crossing (Arabic: تقاطع القنيطرة, Hebrew: מעבר קוניטרה) is an access point through the purple ceasefire line between Syrian controlled territory and the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights. It is on the southwestern outskirt…
The Mansion of Bahjí (Arabic: delight) is a summer house in Acre, Israel where Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, died in 1892. His shrine is located next to this house.
The Golan Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית גולן, Arabic: مجلس الجولان الإقليمي) is a regional council that supervises regional services to Israeli settlements located on the Golan Heights. It is made up of 19 moshavim and 10 kibbutzim, and o…
Doha Stadium (Hebrew: איצטדיון דוחא, Etztadion Doha; Arabic: ستاد دوحة) is the current home of Bnei Sakhnin.
The Carmel Tunnels (Hebrew: מנהרות הכרמל, Minharot HaCarmel; also known as Route 23) are a set of road tunnels in Haifa, Israel. The tunnels' purpose is to reduce road congestion in the Haifa area and to provide an alternate route of reaching the e…
Yarka (Hebrew: יִרְכָּא, Arabic: يركا) is a Druze village in Israel's North District, northeast of Acre.
Yahad (Hebrew: יחד, lit. Together) is a small kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Lower Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council.
Operation Markolet (known as Night of the Bridges) was a Haganah venture on the night of the 16th to the 17th of June 1946 in the British Mandate of Palestine, as part of the Jewish insurgency in Palestine (1944-7). Its aim was to destroy eight brid…
The Ghetto Fighters' House (Hebrew: בית לוחמי הגטאות, Beit Lohamei Ha-Getaot), full name, Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum, Documentation and Study Center, was founded in 1949 by members of Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot…
Fiq (Arabic: فيق) is a former Syrian town administratively belonging to Al Quneitra Governorate, located in the Golan Heights.
The Ari Ashkenazi Synagogue, located in Safed, Israel, was built in memory of Rabbi Isaac Luria, (1534 - 1572), who was known as the "Ari". It dates from the late 16th-century, it being constructed several years after the death of Luria, a great kab…
According to Jewish tradition, the Tomb of Maimonides (Hebrew: קבר הרמב"ם translit. Kever ha-Rambam) is located in central Tiberias, on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, Israel. Maimonides died in Fustat, Egypt on 20 December 1204, where it …
Shavei Tzion (Hebrew: שָׁבֵי צִיּוֹן, lit. Returnees to Zion) is a moshav shitufi in northern Israel. Located between Acre and Nahariya and covering 2,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. In 2006 it had a popu…
Sa'ar (Hebrew: סַעַר, lit. Storm) is a kibbutz in the western Galilee in Israel. Located near Nahariya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council.
The Petroleum Road (Hebrew: כביש הנפט, Kvish HaNeft) is a privately owned north-south asphalt road in the Golan Heights. It is 47 km (29 mi) long.
This is a list of mountains in the Golan Heights.
Kiryat Haim (Hebrew: קריית חיים pronounced [kiʁˈjat ˈχa.im]) is one of the five Krayot suburbs located north of Haifa, Israel.
The Hebrew Reali School of Haifa (Hebrew: בית הספר הריאלי העברי בחיפה), (known as the Reali School, or Beit Hasefer Hareali) located in Haifa, Israel, is one of the country's oldest private schools.