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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. City in Israel Haifa חֵיפָה حَيْفَا City Downtown and Port of Haifa Sail Tower Baháʼí World Centre IEC Tower Madatech Bat Galim Hadar HaCarmel Stella Maris Monastery Flag Coat of arms Map of Haifa Haifa Location in Israel Show map of Northern Haifa region of Israel Haifa Haifa ...
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has its largest Israeli mosque on Mount Carmel, in the Kababir quarter of Haifa, known as the Mahmood Mosque. It is a unique structure with two minarets. [40] The mosque was once visited by the president of Israel, Shimon Peres, for an iftar dinner. [41]
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Haifa, a seaside city of nearly 300,000 people, is the cultural and economic capital of northern Israel. It has increasingly come into Hezbollah 's sights since fighting with Israel escalated this week and residents are bracing for what many fear will be the worst round of violence since a war nearly two decades ago pounded the city with rockets.
[4] [5] If East Jerusalem is considered part of Israel, Tel Aviv is the country's second most populous city with 452,000 residents after Jerusalem with 919,000; if not, Tel Aviv is the most populous city before West Jerusalem with around 350,000.
Haifa Zoo was established in the early 1950s, near to the Gan HaEm garden. The station Gan HaEm is the upper terminus of the Carmelit funicular subway system. The Carmelit was built in the late 1950s and runs down Mount Carmel from Merkaz HaCarmel to Paris Square in downtown Haifa. The Haifa Auditorium and the Haifa Cinematheque. were built in ...
View of lower city and Haifa Bay.. The history of Haifa dates back before the 3rd century BCE.Since then it has been controlled by several civilizations, including the Canaanites, Israelites, Persians, Romans, Byzantines, Muslims, Crusaders, Kurds, the Mamluks, the Ottoman Turks and the British; currently it is a major city in Israel.
A map of Galilee showing the Haifa Bay Haifa Bay as viewed from Denia. Haifa Bay. Haifa: German Colony and harbour. The Bay of Haifa or Haifa Bay (Hebrew: מפרץ חיפה, Mifratz Heifa), formerly Bay of Acre, [1] is a bay along the Mediterranean coast of Northern Israel. Haifa Bay is Israel's only natural harbor on the Mediterranean.