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Tel Aviv is a city of ”half Iran” and ”half California”; it’s something like a synagogue which meets a suchi bar. Tel Aviv has some of the cleanest and most easily accessible urban beaches in the world.
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This amazing restaurant is located in Eilat, Israel. A 15 ft. below the surface of the Red Sea’s coral reef. A breathtaking view of hundreds of various tropical sea creatures in the colorful coral garden is seen through 62 panoramic amorphous windows surrounding the observatory, located five meters below the sea level. The restaurant is a green project and the Marine life experts and divers have worked for years to reconstruct, preserve and nurture the natural surrounding coral reef.

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Whether you call it Bauhaus or International Style architecture, Tel Aviv is still the only city in the world that houses such a large collection of buildings designed in this style. It evolved in Germany in the 1920’s, came to an abrupt end (in Germany) with the Nazi’s rise to power and continued to develop in the U.S. and elsewhere. In Tel Aviv of the 1930’s, Bauhaus architecture flourished, as is evidenced by many of the wonderful buildings that line the city’s streets. Since the initial publication of this issue, the “White City of Tel Aviv” has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage site.When UNESCO added Tel Aviv’s White City to the World Heritage List of sites designated for preservation, it made white fashionable and desireable. Thanks to the White City’s historical designation, that default color of Israeli architecture is now identified with quality.

“This is a trend that began about 15 years ago as part of Tel Aviv’s branding as the White City,” says architect Sharon Rotbard, author of the books “White City, Black City” and “Avraham Yaski: Concrete Architecture.” “In the mid-1990s, Ram Carmi began to talk about white architecture at the same time that architects began whitewashing raw concrete structures in conjunction with Brutalist architecture - for example, the planned Amal School. Eldar Sharon also painted white the Coor Building - now the Beit Amot Hamishpat Building - which he planned with his father, Arieh Sharon.
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<The Holy City of Jerusalem, built in the 7th century, decorated with beautiful geometric and floral motifs, it is recognized by all three religions as the site of Abraham’s sacrifice. It consists of four ethnic and religious sections — the Armenian, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Quarters. The Old City of Jerusalem is an approximately one square kilometer area of the modern day Israel city of Jerusalem. The Old City is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is visited by tourists from around the world.
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