3312 ISRAEL (Jerusalem) - Via Dolorosa - part of The Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls (UNESCO WHS)

Via Dolorosa (Sorrowful Way‎) is a processional route in the Old City of Jerusalem, believed to be the path that Jesus walked on the way to his crucifixion. The winding route from the former Antonia Fortress to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre - a distance of about 600 metres - is a celebrated place of Christian pilgrimage. The current route has been established since the 18th century, replacing various earlier versions. It is today marked by nine Stations of the Cross; there have been fourteen stations since the late 15th century, with the remaining five stations being inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

3290 ISRAEL (Jerusalem) - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre - part of The Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls (UNESCO WHS)

Located in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also called the Church of the Resurrection or Church of the Anastasis by Eastern Christians, contains, according to traditions, the two holiest sites in Christianity: the site where Jesus was crucified, at a place known as Calvary or Golgotha, and Jesus's empty tomb, where he is said to have been buried and resurrected. The tomb is enclosed by a 19th-century shrine called the Aedicula. The Status Quo, an understanding between religious communities dating to 1757, applies to the site.

3268 ISRAEL (Jerusalem) - Dome of the Rock - part of The Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls (UNESCO WHS)

The Dome of the Rock is an Islamic shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It was initially completed in 691-692 CE at the order of Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik during the Second Fitna on the site of the Second Jewish Temple, destroyed during the Roman Siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE. The original dome collapsed in 1015 and was rebuilt in 1022-1023, being in its core one of the oldest extant works of Islamic architecture, even if it was patterned after nearby Byzantine churches and palaces.

ISRAEL (Jerusalem) - The Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls (UNESCO WHS)

The Old City of Jerusalem is a walled area within the modern city of Jerusalem. Until 1860, when the Jewish neighborhood Mishkenot Sha'ananim was established, this area constituted the entire city of Jerusalem. According to the Hebrew Bible, before King David's conquest of Jerusalem in the 11th century BCE the city was home to the Jebusites. It was identified southeast of the Old City walls, outside the Dung Gate. In the Bible, David's son, King Solomon, extended the city walls to include the Temple and Temple Mount.

2778 ISRAEL - Haifa

2778 Crossing Balfour-Herzl Street in Haifa

Haifa, the third-largest city in Israel, is situated on the Israeli Mediterranean Coastal Plain, the historic land bridge between Europe, Africa, and Asia, and the mouth of the Kishon River. Located on the northern slopes of Mount Carmel and around Haifa Bay, the city is split over three tiers. The lowest is the center of commerce and industry including the Port of Haifa. The middle level is on the slopes of Mount Carmel and consists of older residential neighborhoods, while the upper level consists of modern neighborhoods.

2759 ISRAEL - Akhzivland

Achziv is an ancient site on the Mediterranean coast of northern Israel, in Western Galilee, between the border with Lebanon and the city of Acre (15 kilometers north of Acre, within the municipal area of Nahariya). Remnants of ancient Achziv, now known as Tel Achziv, are located on a sandstone mound between two streams, Kziv on the north and Shaal on the south. An ancient port was located on the coast, and another secondary port is located 700 m to the south.

2671 ISRAEL - The flag of the country

The flag of Israel, which depicts a blue hexagram on a white background, between two horizontal blue stripes, was adopted on October 28, 1948, five months after the establishment of the State of Israel. It was designed for the Zionist Movement in 1891. The basic design recalls the Tallit, the Jewish prayer shawl, which is white with black or blue stripes. The symbol in the center represents the Star of David ("Magen David"), a Jewish symbol dating from late medieval Prague, which was adopted by the First Zionist Congress in 1897.

1626 ISRAEL - Negev Bedouins

The Bedouins (desert dwellers in Arabic) are an Arab ethnocultural group, descended from nomads who have historically inhabited the Arabian and Syrian Deserts. Their territory stretches from the vast deserts of North Africa to the rocky sands of the Middle East, and they are traditionally divided into tribes or clans, which share a common culture of herding camels and goats. While many of them have abandoned the nomadic traditions for urban lifestyle, they retain traditional music, poetry, dances, and many other cultural practices. Traditions like camel riding and camping in the deserts are also popular leisure activities for urbanised Bedouins who live within close proximity to deserts or other wilderness areas.

0315 ISRAEL - The map of the Holy Land

The Holy Land is the territory where took place the biblical events, as described in Tanakh or Old Testament, some of which being listed (without geographical detailing) also in Quran. For some biblical authors, the territory corresponds to the concept of the Promised Land, and for others refer to all places and events linked by the people of Israel, i.e. the regions that have religious significance for the three monotheistic Abrahamic religions:
- in Judaism - Jerusalem is the place where was the Jewish Temple, and the region is considered the Promised Land, the gift of God to his people. The Jewish holy cities are Jerusalem, Hebron, Tzfat and Tiberias.
- in Christianity - is the place of birth, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ (Savior or Messiah). The Christian holy cities are Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth.
- in Islamism - is considered sacred Tuwa, the depression located near Mount Sinai, and the city of Jerusalem.

0146 ISRAEL (Jerusalem) - Western Wall - part of The Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls (UNESCO WHS)

According to the Tanakh (the canon of the Hebrew Bible), Solomon's Temple was built atop the Temple Mount from Jerusalem in the 10th century BCE and destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. Hasn't been found it any trace of this temple, so its actual existence is doubted by many archaeologists. The Second Temple was completed in 516 BCE, and around 19 BCE Herod the Great began a massive expansion project on the Temple Mount (which seems that was finished during the reign of King Agrippa II). He expanded the platform on which the temple stood, resulting in an enlarged enclosure. Today's Western Wall formed part of the retaining perimeter wall of this platform. Herod's Temple was destroyed by the romans, along with the rest of Jerusalem, in 70 CE, during the First Jewish-Roman War.