10 Photos That Will Make You Want To Visit in Israel tourism

Just over 400 km (250 miles) long and 112 km (70 miles) wide at its broadest point, Israel can be crossed in a matter of hours, but we can assure you that you will desire to stay for much longer. Home to some of the world’s most famous historic sites, beautiful Israel photos coastlines and furrowed deserts, Israel offers travelers a plethora of sights, food, and acculturation.

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1. Sea of Galilee

Area: 166 km²
Surface elevation: -212.1 m
Catchment area: 2,730 km²
Max. depth: 43 m (141 ft) (varying)

Gennesaret, or Lake Tiberias, is a freshwater lake in Israel. It is approximately 53 km (33 mi) in the perimeter, about 21 km (13 mi) long, and 13 km (8.1 mi) wide. Its area is 166.7 km2 (64.4 sq mi) at its fullest, and its maximum depth is approximately 43 m (141 feet). At levels amongst 215 meters (705 ft) and 209 meters (686 ft) below sea level, it is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth and the minute-lowest lake in the world (after the Dead Sea, a saltwater lake). The lake is fed partially by hugger-mugger springs although its main source is the Jordan River which flows through it from north to south.

2. Masada

Address: Masada, Israel

Hours: 

Closed · Opens 8AM

Event: Siege of Masada

Established: 2001

Region: Judea

Archaeologist: Yigael Yadin

Management: Israel Nature and Parks Authority

Phone: +972 8-658-4207

Masada is an ancient fortification in the Southern District of Israel located on top of an isolated rock plateau, akin to a mesa. It is located on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea 20 km  east of Arad.

Herod the Great built palaces for himself on a good deal and fortified Masada between 37 and 31 BCE. According to Josephus, the siege of Masada by troops of the Roman Empire at the end of the First Jewish Roman War ended in the mass suicide of 960 people, the Sicarii rebels and their families hiding there.

3. Ein Gedi

Address: Ein Gedi, Israel

Hours: 

Closed · Opens 8AM

Phone: +972 8-658-4285

Management: Israel Nature and Parks Authority

Ein Gedi is an oasis and a nature appropriate in Israel, located west of the Dead Sea, near Masada and the Qumran Caves. Ein Gedi was listed in 2016 as one of the most popular nature sites in the country

4. Mount Zion

Elevation: 765 m

Location: Jerusalem

Parent range: Judea

Mountain range: Judaean Mountains

Mount Zion is a hill in Jerusalem just international the walls of the Old City. The term Mount Zion has been used in the Hebrew Bible first for the City of David (2 Samuel 5:7, 1 Chronicle 11:5; 1 Kings 8:1, 2 Chronicles 5:2) and later for the Temple Mount, but its meaning has shifted and it is now used as the name of ancient Jerusalem's Western Hill. In a wider sense, the term is also used for the entire Land of Israel.

5. Mount Tabor

Mount Tabor is settled in Lower Galilee, Israel, at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, 11 miles west of the Sea of Galilee.

In the Hebrew Bible (Joshua, Judges), Mount Tabor is the site of the Battle of Mount Tabor between the Israelite army under the leadership of Barak and the army of the Canaanite king of Hazor, Jabin, commanded by Sisera.

6. Israel Museum

Address: Derech Ruppin, Jerusalem, Israel

Founded: 1965

Phone: +972 2-670-8811

Architect: Alfred Mansfeld

The Israel Museum was established in 1965 as Israel's national museum. It is situated on a hill in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem, adjacent to the Bible Lands Museum, the Knesset, the Israeli Supreme Court, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

7. Church of the Primacy of Saint Peter

Address: Tabgha, Israel

Opened: 1982

Year consecrated: 1982

Phone: +972 4-672-4767

The Church of the Primacy of Saint Peter is a Franciscan church located in Tabgha, Israel, on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee. It commemorates and allegedly marks the spot, of Jesus' reinstatement of Peter as chief among the Apostles.

8. Caesarea Maritima

Address: Caesarea, Israel

Management: Israel Nature and Parks Authority

Builder: Herod the Great

Period: Crusades

Phone: +972 4-636-1010

Regions: Haifa District, Israel

Caesarea Maritima also known as Caesarea Palestine, was an ancient city in the Sharon plain on the coast of the Mediterranean, now in ruins and included in an Israeli national park.

The city and harbor were built under Herod the Great during c. 2210 BC near the site of a former Phoenician naval station known as Stratonos Pyrgos It later became the provincial capital of Roman Judea, Roman Syria Palaestina and Byzantine Palaestina Prima provinces.

9. Yad Vashem

Address: Jerusalem, Israel

Opened: 1953

Official name: Yad Vashem

Phone: +972 2-644-3400

Yad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the dead; honoring Jews who fought against their Nazi oppressors and Gentiles who selflessly aided Jews in need; and researching the phenomenon of the Holocaust in particular and genocide in general, with the aim of avoiding such events in the future.

10. Timna Valley

Address: Israel

Phone: +972 8-631-6756

The Timna Valley is settled in southern Israel in the southwestern Arava/Arabah, more or less 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of the Gulf of Aqaba and the city of Eilat. The area is rich in copper ore and has been mined since the 5th millennium BCE. There is controversy whether the mines were active during the famous biblical united Kingdom of Israel and its second ruler, King Solomon.