Country Info
- Jerusalem
- Capital
- New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
- Currency
- 5,938,093
- Population
- IL
- Country Code
Israel Slideshow
Top Hotels in Israel
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Crowne Plaza Tel Aviv City Center
232 reviews -
Hotel Eden Tiberias
9 reviews -
Lot Spa Hotel on the Dead Sea Ein Bokek
59 reviews -
Prima Galil Tiberias
93 reviews
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American Colony Jerusalem
235 reviews
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Galil Hotel Netanya
18 reviews
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Rimonim Mineral Tiberias
65 reviews -
Holiday Inn Eilat Patio
17 reviews
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Astral Seaside Hotel Eilat
8 reviews
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Ruth Rimonim Safed
105 reviews
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Cinema Hotel Tel Aviv - an Atlas Boutique Hotel
335 reviews
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Astral Eilat Marina
25 reviews
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Dan Hotels Caesaria Caesarea
75 reviews
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Inbar Arad
28 reviews -
Melody Hotel Tel Aviv - an Atlas Boutique Hotel
221 reviews
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Caesar Eilat
35 reviews
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C Hotel Spa Tiberias
12 reviews
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Center Chic Hotel Tel Aviv - an Atlas Boutique Hotel
127 reviews
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King Solomon Hotel Netanya
47 reviews
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Club Hotel Eilat
63 reviews
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Tzameret Tiberias
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Deborah Hotel Tel Aviv
68 reviews
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Maagan Holiday Village Jordan Valley
32 reviews
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Sea Net Hotel Tel Aviv
36 reviews
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Mount Carmel Hotel Haifa
17 reviews
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Hotel Siesta Eilat
15 reviews
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Holy Land Hotel Jerusalem
41 reviews
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Vital Hotel Tel Aviv
102 reviews
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Dalia Hotel Eilat
23 reviews
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Artplus Hotel Tel Aviv - an Atlas Boutique Hotel
225 reviews
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Eden Inn Zichron Yaakov
1 review
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Margoa Arad Hotel
10 reviews
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Adiv Hotel Tel Aviv
62 reviews
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Prima Tel-Aviv Tel Aviv
110 reviews
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The Savoy Tel Aviv
122 reviews
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Jerusalem Panorama Hotel
58 reviews
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Eshel Hotel Herzlia
16 reviews -
Ambassador Hotel Jerusalem
39 reviews
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Mount of Olives Hotel Jerusalem
31 reviews
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Ha'on Holiday Village Jordan Valley
3 reviews
Israel
Travel Blogs from Israel
CARING GIRL
This is a top pick! ... went downtown. Beer Sheva had a dusty center with cluttered shops that resembled a third-world country more than modern Israel. "The Capital of the Negev Region", Beer Sheva was populated with some Bedouin women who did their shopping in ...
We are finally here, but...
This is a top pick! We finally landed in Ben Gurio International airport, got through passport inspection and customs with no problems and went out to get our rented cars from Budget. A simple ordeal it seems ... but maybe not so simple. They lost my parents' ...
Yad Vashem and Mt. Herzl
This is a top pick! ... when it has seemed small), and people from drastically different backgrounds are much more alike than I had previously thought. Israel's existence is not only a necessity for Jews around the world, but a strong indication that humanity needs to come ...
JACKALS AND CACTUSFRUIT
This is a top pick! ... like a useless thing to do." Yeah, but it paid well. Again, I became unemployed. During my fourth week in Israel, I was eating lunch on a park bench, looking out at a wild valley that's supposedly full of giant boars. Moshe sat down ...
WHEN A GOOD KIBBUTZ GOES BAD
This is a top pick! ... word, "nothing", looked rich in comparison. Among other things, I needed a place to stay. Luckily, travelers in Israel have for decades enjoyed staying on "kibbutzim" (kibbutzes). (Whew! It's tough work making the transition from a ...
A fascinating insight
This is a top pick! ... great view. The hotel does not have a restaurant and the location is a bit distant from the places I want to visit. The service is also quite ordinary. Keep the brochure – there are many more tours I want to do here in ...
Jerusalem is mindblowing!
This is a top pick! Been to Rio, been to Mexico City, been to Moscow, been to New York, London, Paris, etc, Jerusalem is one of a kind and must see! This is sort of the opposite of New York - the un-melting pot of the world, where people of all religions live together and ...
Reunion
This is a top pick! We split up during the first part of the day, my parents and I went to a memorial service for members of Kibbutz HaOgen,. Afterwards we went to a late lunch at my foster brother's house in Ramat Ha-Sharon, which was a spread that included ...
A JOB AND A PLACE TO STAY, AT LAST
This is a top pick! ... . Here they are: 1. A COUNTRY FOR JEWS After enduring two country-less millenia, the Israelis love having Israel. 2. FALAFEL AND SHAWARMA 3. THE MYSTERIOUS DEPTHS OF JUDAISM 4. CURLY HAIR 5. "EVERY DELAY IS FOR THE BEST" When ...
Roman Holiday in Israel
This is a top pick! ... stopped every couple of steps to take out the send from her sandals, my cousins started laughing and told her that this is Israel, get used to having sand and dust in your sandals. Afterwards we went to see the Roman aqueduct (which brought water to ...
Walking on a Dead Sea
This is a top pick! ... a 'Baptism Site' for about 25km. We end up on the banks of the Jordan River and therefore right on the border with Israel (thought this was meant to be Palestinian?). The Baptism Site in question was none other than that of Jesus Christ, who according to ...
FROM THE RED SEA TO THE DEAD SEA
This is a top pick! ... of a rare tree. The family would go on to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, formerly an Israeli territory. I stopped in Eilat, Israel's southernmost city, on the Red Sea. Supposedly, Eilat was a beautiful place. But, unless I wanted it to be the ...
Death Mountain, Dead Sea
This is a top pick! ... 20 extra bucks to take the cable car. I silently cursed the taxi driver again. Although the tourist sites in Israel are expensive, they have much more development then almost any other place we've been. You know, they have ...
The Jesus Trail
This is a top pick! I thought it was a bad situation when we were dropped off at an unspecified location in Nazareth without a map as it was getting dark. But when we stumbled into the Sisters of Nazareth Convent and the lady cheerfully informed us that they were ...
Walking the Galilee with John the Baptist
This is a top pick! ... white stone. And then there's the sea, and you can sit and enjoy it in a little copse where the breeze floats by. As beautiful things go, it - the Galilee - was the most beautiful thing - place - I saw in all of Israel. ...
Israeli-Chinese relations take a step back
This is a top pick! ... don't like their food." He later apologized. An Israeli Cabinet minister called the Chinese ambassador Wednesday to apologize after Israel's only Beijing Olympics medalist used a curse to describe the Chinese in a newspaper interview Majadle, who ...
Miracles in Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee
This is a top pick! We decided to have an easy day and go to the Church of Annunciation (St. Gabriel) located in the downtown Nazareth, and afterwards take a drive to the Sea of Galilee. Downtown Nazareth is one of those places that one has to experience ...
Yom asal, Yom basal = 1 day honey, 1 day onions
This is a top pick! Some days I think it's a miracle that I haven't been in a bus crash. Other days I consider it no surprise since everything seems to operate by it's own design here. Perhaps that's one of the reasons why they call this the Holy Land. ...
Christmas in the Holy Land
This is a top pick! ... in Asia that I couldn't write anymore. My prayers go out to all those affected by this catastrophe. My adventures in Israel began with a flight into Tel Aviv via Tashkent. "Where's Tashkent?" I hear you thinking. Well, its the capital ...
LESSONS ON THRUMPING, FROM ISRAEL
This is a top pick! ... ve purposely misled me regarding the possibility of a job, so I'd volunteer a bit in the school where he worked. Elsewhere in Israel, kibbutzes, youth hostels, and another school offered me work deals that would've squeezed me dry. I was going to ...
Twelve Hours on a plane - wtih two kids
This is a top pick! Our flight leaves at 10:40, which means waking up at 05:00, showering, getting ready (don't forget the kids), saying goodbye and making it to the airport in time. Since it was the day before Yom-Kippur there was little traffic, and we got to the ...
The Jewish Jerusalem
This is a top pick! ... from the square. Shabbat begins at sundown on Friday and ends an hour after sunset on Saturday. During that time Israel (Jerusalem in particular) shuts down. While I was down at the wall a group of women was dancing and singing ...
The Inquisition
This is a top pick! There are stories about crossing the border into Israel. Terrible stories. Stories involving stressful sessions of rigorous questioning. Questioning that lasts for hours. We prepared ourselves for a strenuous day and hoped that our ...
YOM KIPPUR AND OTHER HOLIDAYS
This is a top pick! ... had been "Rosh Hashana", the Jewish New Year. It comes during September or October. Thinking about the years, while in Israel, inspires awe. When in America, biblical stories seem distant, and it's easy to cast them off as fables. ...
JUDAISM, ON MASTURBATION
This is a top pick! Some of Israel's most religious have been nice to me. I've especially enjoyed debating with young yeshiva students, boys in black hats with varying success at growing beards. They love knowledge. They're still open-minded enough to say, ...
Showing the kibbutz
This is a top pick! I intended to take my wife and kids and show them around where I grew up, however as we always say "men plans and G-d laughs". We woke up late, my plan was to spend an hour or two in the Kibbutz and come back for a nap, but Bella went with my dad ...
excuses
This is a top pick! ... the History of Israel and Jewish religion, but I don't feel compelled to write the primer just this moment. My relationship with Israel and being Jewish, is complicated enough, and when I try to explain certain ideologies, I wind up having these circular ...
Bella's first professional modeling gig
This is a top pick! We had a lazy morning today, and only got up around noon and watched people on the Sdot-Yam beach do some water sports . Actually we both got up quite often in the middle of the night to feed the baby, and since we're on vacation noon seems ...
Shopping Day
This is a top pick! Since we were having a short day (i.e. we were invited to go somewhere in the afternoon) we went to a nearby Druze town named Dalyat El Carmel where a huge bazaar is held everyday. We got some gifts and walked around in many shops selling junk ...
The Knight's Halls
This is a top pick! ... peninsula connecting it to the mainland is protected by a powerful wall. It is a predominately Arab enclave in Israel, and they left the old city to itself and built a new one outside the walls. We bought a combination ticket that ...