Netanya (Hebrew: נְתַנְיָה, lit., "gift of God"; Arabic: نتانيا) is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is 30 km (18.64 mi) north of Tel Aviv, and 56 km (34.80 mi) south of Haifa, between the 'Poleg' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the 'Avichail' stream in the north.
Population: 171,676
Latitude: 32° 19' 58.48" N
Longitude: 34° 51' 35.71" E
Mossad (Hebrew: הַמוֹסָד, IPA: [ha moˈsad]; Arabic: الموساد, al-Mōsād; literally meaning "the Institute"), short for HaMossad leModiʿin uleTafkidim Meyuḥadim (Hebrew: המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים, meaning "Institute for Intelligence and Speci…
Caesarea Maritima (Greek: Parálios Kaisáreia, Παράλιος Καισάρεια) is a national park on the Israeli coastline, near the town of Caesarea. The ancient Caesarea Maritima (or Caesarea Palestinae) city and harbor was built by Herod the Great about 25–13…
Netanya (Hebrew: נְתַנְיָה, lit., "gift of God") is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is located 30 km (18.64 mi) north of Tel Aviv, and 56 km (34.80 mi) south of Haifa, between…
Herzliya (Hebrew: הֶרְצֵלִיָּה, Arabic: هرتسيليا) is a city in the central coast of Israel, at the Northern part of the Tel Aviv District. It has a population of more than 110,000 residents. Named after Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism,…
The Battle of Arsuf was a battle of the Third Crusade in which Richard I of England (Richard the Lionheart) defeated Saladin (Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb), founder of the Ayyubid dynasty and Sultan of Egypt and Syria, at Arsuf in Palestine. The for…
The Coastal Road massacre of 1978 was an attack involving the hijacking of a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway in which 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children, were killed, and 71 were wounded. The attack was planned by Abu Jihad and carried out …
Hod HaSharon (Hebrew: הוֹד הַשָּׁרוֹן, lit.
The Passover massacre was a suicide bombing carried out by Hamas at the Park Hotel in Netanya, Israel on 27 March 2002, during a Passover seder. Thirty civilians were killed in the attack and 140 were injured. It was the deadliest attack against Isr…
Tzahala is a residential neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel. It is located in the northeastern part of the city.
Ramat HaSharon (Hebrew: רָמַת הַשָּׁרוֹן, lit. Height of the Sharon) is a city located on Israel's central coastal strip in the south of the Sharon region, bordering Tel Aviv to the south, Hod HaSharon to the east and Herzliya and Kibbutz Glil Yam t…
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…
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…
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.
…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 …
Camp 1391 is an Israel Defense Forces prison camp for "high-risk" prisoners in northern Israel, run by Unit 504 and less than an hour's drive from Tel Aviv.
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.
The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (Hebrew: המרכז הבינתחומי הרצליה HaMerkaz 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…
The Sharon plain (Hebrew: שרון) is the northern half of the coastal plain of Israel.