Welcome to the Land Flowing with Milk and Honey !
1. Mount Hermon 2. The Jordan Valley 3. Sea of Galilee 4. Haifa 5. Tel Aviv - Yafo |
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Here 6. Jerusalem 7. The Dead Sea 9. Eilat |
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Jerusalem capital and largest city of Israel, is a walled city. The walls of the Old City, seen here, were originally built by the Turks in the 16th century. Within the walls are Armenian, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim sections. Jerusalem, bird's eye view |
The Dead Sea between Jordan and Israel, has grown smaller over the last 10,000 years due to evaporation, which removes water faster than precipitation can replenish it. The resulting salt deposits form an enormous salt reserve. |
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Modern development of the Negev desert began with the establishment of several kibbutzim (collective settlements) in the mid-1940s and accelerated after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Living in the Negev Desert |
The Red Sea divides the Arabian Peninsula from the continent of Africa, forming the Gulf of Aqaba just below the Israeli port of Eilat . For more than 50 million years, the earth's crust has been tearing apart all along this zone. The Red Sea formed when the Arabian Peninsula was torn from Africa, 20 million years ago. Eilat , health resort on the Red Sea |
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