Israel Travel Guide

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Israel is a country of southwest Asia on the eastern Mediterranean Sea. It was established in 1948 following the British withdrawal from Palestine, with acreage about 7,992 sq mi (20,700 sq km) (does not include the Golan Heights or the West Bank, which are occupied by Israel).

Contents 1 Understand 1.1 Holidays 2 Regions 3 Cities

[edit] Understand

It is bordered by Lebanon in the north, Syria and Jordan in the east, the Mediterranean Sea on the west, Egypt on the southwest, and the Gulf of Aqaba on the south. Jerusalem is the capital and Tel Aviv-Yafo the largest city. Population: 6,430,000. The country is a narrow, irregularly shaped strip of land with four principal regions: the plain along the Mediterranean coast, the mountains, the Negev and the portion of Israel that forms part of the Jordan Valley. The most important river in Israel is the Jordan. Other smaller rivers are the Yarkon, the Kishon, and the Yarmuk, a tributary of the Jordan. For millions of travellers around the world, this is the ‘Holy Land', spiritually sacrosanct for the three great monotheistic religions: Christianity, Judaism and Islam, eco-tourists and beach bums. There are crumbling temples, ruined cities, abandoned forts and hundreds of places associated with the Bible, with alternating scenes of sea, desert, ancient towns and verdant nature reserves. From the Dead Sea to the sea grottoes at Rosh HaNikra.

[edit] Holidays

• Jewish New Year
• Fast Day of Gedaliah
• Day of Atonement
• Feast of Tabernacles (Booths)
• Assembly of the Eighth Day
• itzhak Rabin's Remembrance Day
• Feast of Rededication (First Day)
• Fifteenth of Shvat
• Fast of Esther
• Memorial Feast for the Triumph of Esther
• Passover
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Independence Day
• 33rd day of the `Omer
• Jerusalem Day
• Pentecost
• Seventeenth of Tammuz fast
• Ninth of Av fast
• Fifteenth of Av

[edit] Regions

Galilee

Israeli North Coast

Israeli Coastal Plain

Shephelah

Negev

[edit] Cities

• Akko (Acre)
• Beer Sheva
• Eilat
• Haifa
• Jerusalem
• Nazareth
• Tel Aviv
• Tiberias
• Safed (Tzfat)