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24 ❯❯ Top 10 Israel and Petra Highlights

Haifa

Cascading down the slopes of Mount Carmel between Haifa Bay
and the Mediterranean, cosmopolitan Haifa is one of the world’s
loveliest port cities. The Baha’i Gardens offer stunning panoramas
of the German Colony’s 19th-century houses, Hadar’s Bauhaus
buildings, and the narrow lanes of the Arab neighborhood of Wadi
Nisnas. Sprinkled throughout are excellent museums, while at
the top of the hill, pine-shaded parks and
upscale neighborhoods stretch along a
boulevard lined with cafés and restaurants.
Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art
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This museum puts on first-rate exhibitions of
Japanese art, both traditional (including paintings,
prints, ceramics, swords, and masks) and contem-
porary. Founded in 1959, it has won prestigious
awards from the Japanese government.
Hecht
Shrine of
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the Bab
Museum
One of the Hidden away on
founders of the the Haifa University
Baha’i faith, the campus, the Hecht
Bab was executed Museum (left) has
in Iran in 1850 and a superb archeology
reburied in Haifa collection, art by
in 1909. His ornate Manet, Pissaro, Van
tomb, in the lower Gogh, and more,
section of the Baha’i plus a 400 BC
Gardens, is topped Mediterranean
by a golden dome. shipwreck. Haifa 6 4 0
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Beit HaGefen
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Set up in 1963 to promote Arab-Jewish
coexistence, this Arab-Jewish Cultural Center ALLENBY JAFFA
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center organizes city walking tours, art exhibits STELLA MARIS RD
grappling with intercultural dialogue, and the annual TCHERNIK H O VSKI ST
Jewish-Muslim-Christian Festival of Festivals. ALLE NBY
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German
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Colony
Established in 1868
Clandestine Immigration and
5 by German Christians
Naval Museum
known as Templers, the
Exhibits cover the dramatic period of 1934–48, when German Colony has gone
the Zionist Movement made repeated attempts to from being a prosperous
bring Jews fleeing persecution in Europe to Palestine village to Haifa’s premier
in defiance of the British blockade (above). dining district.
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