{"id":1355,"date":"2018-05-07T03:30:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T01:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/new\/israel\/israelwp\/dead-sea-2-2\/"},"modified":"2020-04-29T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T12:14:10","slug":"haifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/haifa\/","title":{"rendered":"Haifa"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Haifa is Israel\u2019s third-largest city, Israel\u2019s chief port and home to 400,000.\u00a0 Draped around the slopes of biblical Mount Carmel, it is a 100-year-old city whose importance burgeoned in the 1920\u2019s and 1930\u2019s as Britain followed its League of Nations mandate over Palestine to create a Jewish homeland. The bustling lower Carmel neighborhood is the port area and where much of Haifa\u2019s daily business is conducted. The slopes of central Carmel are largely residential, and the mountaintop Upper Carmel is home to museums, many hotels and shops. Transportation from the top to the bottom of Mount Carmel is achieved by the Carmelit subway, the Bat Ganim cable car and, of course, by road.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=\"3470\" img_size=\"full\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Haifa\u2019s iconic symbol is the golden-domed Baha\u2019i Shrine of the Bab, completed in 1953, that abuts the international headquarters of the Baha\u2019i Faith, a network of giant white Greco-Roman buildings whose beauty stuns the visitor. The Shrine of the Bab was further beautified with the completion in 2001 of the \u201changing gardens\u201d (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) magnificent terraced gardens that lead from the shrine to the bottom of Mount Carmel. Here is the restored Templer Colony \u2013 where the homes and workshops of 19th<\/sup>-century German Christian \u201cTempler\u201d immigrants are now a network of chic stores, bars and restaurants.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=\"3467\" img_size=\"full\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Haifa is home to a dozen museums \u2013 including a museum of Japanese Art, Israel\u2019s Railway Museum and the Af-Al-Pi-Chen Museum of Illegal Immigration. It is also home to the Technion, Israel\u2019s version of MIT. Haifa\u2019s Wadi Nisnas neighborhood is the center of multi-holiday celebrations reflecting Haifa\u2019s identity as city that is home to Jews, Christians, Muslims and Baha\u2019is.<\/p>\n

MUST SEES:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Baha\u2019i Shrine of the Bab<\/em><\/p>\n

Baha\u2019i \u201cHanging Gardens\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Panorama of Haifa Bay from Upper Carmel<\/em><\/p>\n

Templer Colony<\/em><\/p>\n

IF YOU HAVE MORE TIME:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Af-Al-Pi-Chen Museum of Illegal Immigration<\/em><\/p>\n

Israel Railway Museum<\/em><\/p>\n

Museum of Japanese Art<\/em><\/p>\n

Technion<\/em><\/p>\n

Wadi Nisnas<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Haifa is Israel\u2019s third-largest city, Israel\u2019s chief port and home to 400,000.\u00a0 Draped around the slopes of biblical Mount Carmel, it is a 100-year-old city whose importance burgeoned in the 1920\u2019s and 1930\u2019s as Britain followed its League of Nations mandate over Palestine to create a Jewish homeland. The bustling lower Carmel neighborhood is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-places-to-go","category-north"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4589,"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/4589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israel.travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}