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Knesset, Jerusalem
1
MAP J4 • Givat Ram, West
Jerusalem • (02) 675 3337 • English
tours at 8:30am, noon, 2pm Sun &
Thu • www.knesset.gov.il
The debating chamber, committee
rooms, and artworks of Israel’s
120-member parliament can be
visited on an hour-long guided tour.
When the Knesset is in session,
visitors can also sit in on debates, Ma’agan Michael Ship, Hecht Museum
(Monday and Tuesday from 4pm,
Hecht Museum, Haifa
Wednesday from 11am). Dress 4
appropriately; bring your passport. One of Israel’s best archeology
collections brings alive the cultures
Supreme Court,
2 of the Levant from the time of
Jerusalem
Canaan to the Byzantine period. The
MAP J3 • Givat Ram, West Jerusalem star exhibit is the Ma’agan Michael
• (02) 675 9612 • English tours at Ship, which plied the Mediterranean
noon Sun–Thu • www.court.gov.il 2,500 years ago (see p25).
Filled with architectural references
Rosh Pina, Upper Galilee
to over two millennia of construction 5
in the land of Israel, the home of MAP B5 • HaHalutzim St, Rosh
Israel’s Supreme Court elegantly Pina
combines enclosed and open- Much as they were in the 1880s, the
air spaces. Opened in 1992, it is quiet lanes of Rosh Pina’s old town
acclaimed as one of Israel’s most are lined with stone houses. Visit the
magnificent public buildings. old synagogue, a small museum, the
Baron’s Garden, and the cemetery.
Baha’i Gardens, Haifa
3 Ramat HaNadiv, Zichron
Cascading down the slopes
Ya’akov
of Mount Carmel, the exquisitely 6
landscaped Baha’i Gardens (see MAP C3 • Zichron Ya’akov • (04) 629
pp24–5) bring together flowers, 8111 • Open 8am–4pm Sat–Thu, to
manicured grass, burbling streams, 2pm Fri • www.ramat-hanadiv.org.il
dramatic formal staircases, and Near the southern end of Mount
fabulous views of the Mediterranean. Carmel, this beautiful hilltop park
The layout was inspired in part by was built as a memorial to Baron
traditional Persian gardens. The Edmond de Rothschild. Trails lead
gold-domed Shrine of the Bab is through landscaped gardens to
surrounded by the lower gardens. fine views of the Mediterranean.
Baha’i Gardens, Haifa

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