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Welcome to & the Welcome to Palestinian Territories ... 2 Israel & the Palestinian Highlights Map ...... 4 Territories 20 Top Experiences ...... 6 Need to Know ...... 16 COUNTRY • The original If You Like ...... 18 • Comprehensive • Adventurous Month by Month ...... 20 Holy Sites tian pilgrims and tourists are welcome to 66 visit sites associated with Jesus’ birth (in The , cradle of Judaism and Bethlehem), ministry (in Nazareth and Christianity Dome ofand thesacred Rock to Muslims and around the Sea of ) and cruciÀ xion Baha’is, oՖ ers visitors the opportunity to The À rst sight of the Dome of the Rock (in ). For Sunni Muslims, only immerse themselves in the richness and (p 47 ) – its gold cap shimmering above a Mecca and Medina are holier than Jerusa- variety1 of their own religious traditions – mystical turquoise-hued octagonal base – lem’s Al-Haram ash-Sharif, known to Jews Itineraries ...... 24 and to discover the beliefs, rituals and never fails to take one’s breath away. Perhaps as the Temple Mount – perhaps the most architecture of other faiths. Ancient Jew- that’s what the architects had in mind more contested real estate on earth. ish sites, found throughout the country, than 1300 years ago when they set to work on include Jerusalem’s Western Wall, which this impossibly gorgeous building. The best Archaeology once surrounded the Second Temple, and view is from the Mount of Olives but don’t miss Byzantine-era synagogues adorned with Human beings have lived in Israel and the chance to see it up close by taking an early sumptuous mosaics. The Roman-era syna- the Palestinian Territories since long be- Crossing Borders ...... 27 morning walk up to the Temple Mount. Dome offore recorded history, and thanks to the gogues around the Sea of Galilee may have the Rock, with Mount of Olives in the background been used by Jews and Christians before painstaking work of archaeologists, you they started thinking of themselves as be- can explore and ponder what they left 20 longing to separate religions. Both Chris- behind. If the 10,000-year-old mud-brick Travel with Children ...... 31 The Dead Sea TOP You pass a sign reading ‘Sea Level’ and then 2 keep driving downhill, eventually catching EXPERIENCES 01-welcome-to-isr7.inddglimpses of the 2 Dead Sea’s (p 284 ) cobalt-blue 11/04/2012 10:39:21 AM waters, outlined by snow-white salt deposits, reddish-tan cliՖ s and tufts of dark-green vegeta- tion. At the oasis of you can hike through Regions at a Glance ...... 33 unique desert habitats to crystal-clear pools and tumbling waterfalls before climbing to the Judean Desert plateau above – or heading down to the seashore for a briny, invigorating dip. To the south around Mt Sodom, outdoor options 20 include adventure cycling along dry riverbeds. Top Events 1 HANAN ISACHAR/LONELY PLANET IMAGES © Month Passover, April by Easter, April Ramadan, July Month Hanukkah, December Christmas, December

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%1-700-705 022; www.iaa.gov. il), 60km north of . Airlines Israel’s privatised Á ag carrier, El Al (LY; %03-977 1111; www. Safe Travel ...... 422 elal.co.il) has direct Á ights to several dozen in Eu- rope and the Former Soviet Union, as well as long-haul non-stop services to New York, Newark, Toronto, Los Directory A–Z ...... 425 Angeles, Mumbai, Bang- kok, Seoul, Hong Kong and Beijing; some Á ights to Asian destinations are codeshares. Known for having the tightest Transport security in the business, the company was privatised in Transport ...... 436 2005, leading to a signiÀ cant GETTING THERE improvement in service. El Al & AWAY Air is not a member of any of the Israel has land borders and Airports three global airline alliances (Star Alliance, OneWorld and peace treaties with Egypt Israel’s main gateway is Ben- and Jordan, so it’s easy to Skyteam). Sundor (www. Gurion International Air- sundor.co.il) is El Al’s charter combine a visit to Israel and port (IATA code: TLV; %arrivals Health ...... 441 the Palestinian Territories subsidiary. & departures 03-972 3333; with a trip to Petra and/or to Some of the cheapest www.iaa.gov.il), situated 50km Á ights from North America the Red Sea coast of Sinai. northwest of Jerusalem and For information on entering to Tel Aviv are oՖ ered by 18km southeast of central Tel Air Canada (www.aircanada. and exiting Israel and the Aviv. Its ultramodern inter- Palestinian Territories by com) via Toronto, or US Air- national terminal, À nished in ways (www.usairways.com) land, see p 27 . 2004 at a cost of US$1 bil- Language ...... 444 For details on visas to via Philadelphia. A variety lion, handles about 11 million Israel, Jordan and Egypt, see of European carriers oՖ er passengers a year. For details trans-Atlantic services with p 433 . on arrivals and departures, For implications on the a stopover in their hub , go to the website and click making it easy to combine possible implications of hav- ‘Ben Gurion Airport’, then ing an Israeli entry stamp in travel to Israel with a visit ‘Passenger Services’ and to London, Paris, Frankfurt, your passport, see p 30 . À nally ‘On Line Flights’. Index ...... 453 Flights and tours can be Amsterdam or Rome. Airport security is tight, booked online at www.lonely Almost all the major Euro- so international travellers pean airlines have Á ights to planet.com/bookings. should check in at least three Map Legend ...... 462 CLIMATECHANGE&TRAVEL

34-transport-isr7.indd 436 11/04/2012 10:46:25 AM THIS EDITION WRITTEN AND RESEARCHED BY Daniel Robinson Michael Kohn, Savery Raz, Jessica Lee, Jenny Walker Every listing is recommended by our authors, and their favourite places are listed first.

Look out for these icons: Our author’s top A green or No payment o recommendation S sustainable option F required See the Index for a full list of destinations covered in this book.

On the Road

JERUSALEM ...... 38 Tzipori ...... 201 THE DEAD SEA . . . . .284 AROUND JERUSALEM . . . . 105 Mt Tabor Area ...... 201 Ein Gedi ...... 289 Abu Ghosh ...... 105 Jezreel & Beit She’an North of Ein Gedi ...... 294 Valleys ...... 203 Sorek Caves ...... 106 ...... 296 Tiberias ...... 206 HaElla Valley ...... 106 Ein Bokek ...... 298 Sea of Galilee ...... 212 Beit Guvrin & Tel . .106 Sodom ...... 300 ...... 223 Latrun ...... 107 Neot HaKikar ...... 301

TEL AVIV ...... 108 UPPER GALILEE & THE NEGEV ...... 303 GOLAN ...... 224 AROUND TEL AVIV ...... 146 Arad ...... 305 THE UPPER GALILEE . . . . . 226 Jaffa ...... 146 Be’er Sheva ...... 305 Tsfat (Safed) ...... 226 Herzliyya ...... 151 Around Be’er Sheva ...... 311 Mt Meron Area ...... 235 Netanya ...... 152 ...... 312 Rosh Pina ...... 238 Ramla ...... 153 Mitzpe Ramon...... 316 Around Rosh Pina ...... 240 The Arava ...... 321 HAIFA & THE NORTH ...... 240 Eilat ...... 323 COAST ...... 156 Kiryat Shmona & Around Eilat ...... 332 Tel Hai ...... 241 Haifa ...... 158 Metula ...... 241 Daliyat al-Karmel ...... 173 THE GAZA STRIP . . .333 East of Kiryat Carmelite Monastery Shmona ...... 243 Gaza City ...... 336 of St Elijah ...... 174 Elsewhere in the Atlit ...... 174 THE . . . . 244 Gaza Strip ...... 338 Ein Hod...... 174 Katzrin ...... 244 Zichron Ya’acov...... 175 South of Katzrin ...... 247 PETRA ...... 339 Mey Kedem ...... 176 North of Katzrin ...... 249 The Ancient City ...... 341 Caesarea ...... 176 Northern Golan ...... 251 Musa ...... 345 Megiddo () . .180 Siq al-Barid (Little Petra) 352 WEST BANK ...... 254 Akko (Acre) ...... 181 Bethlehem ...... 259 SINAI (EGYPT) . . . . .353 Around Akko ...... 186 Around Bethlehem ...... 266 Taba ...... 356 Nahariya ...... 187 & Al-Bireh . . . . 268 Nuweiba ...... 357 North of Nahariya ...... 187 Around Ramallah ...... 274 Ras Abu Gallum Protectorate ...... 359 LOWER GALILEE & SEA Jericho & Around ...... 274 OF GALILEE ...... 189 ...... 278 Dahab ...... 359 Nablus ...... 280 St Katherine’s Monastery Nazareth ...... 191 & Mt Sinai ...... 364 Kafr Kana ...... 200 Jenin ...... 282 Israel & the Palestinian Territories Top Experiences ›

Tyre Nature Reserve Banias Nature Reserve Kiryat Shmona Golan Heights Gushing water and L E B A N O N Wildflowers, canyons, lush vegetation (p251) Quneitra Rosh River volcanoes and snow (p244) HaNikra Montfort Rosh Nahariya Pina The Golan Sea of Galilee Tsfat Peqi'in Jordan Cerulean backdrop to Ancient centre of Akko Daliyat Tsfat Jesus's ministry (p212) Jewish mysticism (p226) al-Karmel Sea of S Y R I A The Galilee Haifa Tiberias Galilee Nazareth Akko Nazareth Holy sites and fusion Atlit cuisine (p191) Crusader ruins, Ottoman Afula walled city (p181) Deraa Megiddo Irbid Caesarea M E D I T E R R A N E A N Beit She'an Hadera Jenin S E A River Mafraq Netanya Caesarea Mt Ebal Ancient Roman theatre (940m)

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Mt Gerizim rda Jerusalem (881m) Jo Tel Aviv TEL AVIV Historic, holy, sublime – Turquoise water and Jaffa and contested (p38) bronze bodies (p108) West Bank Rishon Ramla LeZion Ramallah AMMAN Rehovot Jaffa Abu Dead Sea Ghosh Jericho Seafront promenade, galleries, Lowest, saltiest place flea market (p146) JERUSALEM Nebi on earth (p284) Musa Bethlehem Ashkelon Kiryat Gat Beit Bethlehem Guvrin Herodian The original Nativity Dead scene (p259) Hebron Sea Gaza City Gaza Strip Ein Gedi Masada Khan Younis Masada Jewish stronghold against Rafah Arad the Romans (p296) Be'er Sheva Kerak Al-Arish Dimona

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Eilat E G Y P T 0 40 km (Sinai) Red Aqaba 0 20 miles Taba Sea OUR STORY A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their fi rst travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies. Lonely Planet was born. Today, Lonely Planet has offi ces in Melbourne, London and Oakland, with more than 600 staff and writers. We share Tony’s belief that ‘a great guidebook should do three things: inform, educate and amuse’. OUR WRITERS Daniel Robinson Coordinating Author, Lower Galilee & Sea of Galilee, Upper Galilee & Golan, The Dead Sea Brought up near San Francisco and Chicago, Daniel spent part of his childhood in Jerusalem, a bit of his youth at Kibbutz Lotan and many years in Tel Aviv, where he worked on a PhD in late Ottoman history, covered suicide bomb- ings for the AP, and helped lead the local Critical Mass campaign for bike paths. A Lonely Planet author since 1989, he holds a BA in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton and an MA in Jewish History from . His favourite activities include cycling Tel Aviv’s historic avenues, hiking around Ein Gedi, and birdwatching in the Hula and Arava Valleys. Read more about Daniel at: lonelyplanet.com/members/daniel_robinson Michael Kohn Jerusalem, Haifa & the North Coast, West Bank After studying journalism at the Uni- versity of California, Michael hopped an overseas fl ight and launched a career as a foreign correspondent, reporting for media outlets including the BBC World Service and Reuters. His fi rst trip to Israel was in 1987 when at age 15 he embarked on a six- week student tour. He returned years later to update Lonely Planet’s Middle East guide and a reconnection with Israel commenced. He has since worked on three editions of Israel & the Palestinian Territories. When not travelling for LP he lives northern California.

Dan Savery Raz Tel Aviv, The Negev, The Gaza Strip Dan travelled around Europe and North America for Channel 4’s A Place in the Sun magazine before moving from leafy London to sandy Tel Aviv with his wife in 2008. Now a real ‘Tel Avivi’, he can often be found walking his dog, Boots, or dipping into a plate of hummus. A contributor to Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel, Happy and Street Food, he has also written articles for Haaretz. Dan occasionally dabbles in fi ction and published The Last Stanza – a poetry anthology that fundraised for African refugees in Tel Aviv; for details see www.danscribe.com. Read more about Dan at: Jenny Walker lonelyplanet.com/members/Dansaveryraz Petra Jenny Walker’s fi rst involvement with Arabia was as a student, collecting but- terfl ies for her father’s book on entomology. Convinced she and her mum were the fi rst Western women to brew tea in the desolate interior, she returned to university to see if that were true. Her studies resulted in a dissertation on Doughty and Law- rence (BA Hons) and a thesis on the Arabic Orient (MPhil, University of Oxford). Jenny has travelled in more than 100 countries from Panama to Mongolia. She is Associate Dean (Professional Development) at Caledonian University College of Engineering, Oman.

OVER MORE PAGE WRITERS Published by Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd ABN 36 005 607 983 Although the authors and Lonely Planet have taken all reason- 7th edition – July 2012 able care in preparing this book, we make no warranty about ISBN 978 1 74179 936 1 the accuracy or completeness of its content and, to the maxi- © Lonely Planet 2012 Photographs © as indicated 2012 mum extent permitted, disclaim all liability arising from its use. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in China All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be copied, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, except brief extracts for the purpose of review, and no part of this publication may be sold or hired, without the written permission of the publisher. Lonely Planet and the Lonely Planet logo are trademarks of Lonely Planet and are registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. Lonely Planet does not allow its name or logo to be appropriated by commercial establishments, such as retailers, restaurants or hotels. Please let us know of any misuses: lonelyplanet.com/ip. Jessica Lee Sinai Jessica escaped small-town New Zealand and high-tailed it for the road at the age of 18, spending much of her twenties traipsing extensively through Asia, Africa and Latin America. She washed up in Egypt in 2004 where she fell in love with the Arabic language and the incredible hospitality of the people. Since 2007 she has lived in the Middle East full-time, mostly based in Cairo, and has authored several guidebooks to the region. She tweets about things Middle Eastern @jessofarabia. Read more about Jess at: lonelyplanet.com/members/jessicalee1 Contributing Author Professor Alon Tal co-wrote the Environment chapter. He founded the Israel Union for Environ- mental Defense and the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, and has served as chair of Life and Environment, Israel’s umbrella group for green organisations. He is a professor of the Desert Ecology Department at Ben-Gurion University, and heads the Jewish National Fund’s sustainable development committee.

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Nazareth Welcome Footsteps inspires people of all faiths. Doomsdayers might want to visit known as Armageddon, mentioned in the as the venue of the last great Testament New the northeast, there are on earth. To battle inspirational views from atop centre of Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism). centre of Kabbalah (Jewish and the Jerusalem Talmud was redacted, Talmud and the Jerusalem and to spiritual in ilee Jesus. Continue northeast to the Jesus.

Footsteps of Prophets Two Weeks Two burial place of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and Jacob burial place of Abraham, Isaac and their wives (except for Rachel, who’s the north, back in Bethlehem). the for- In of the mal beauty try’s crown jewel, and you could spend daystry’s Christianity visiting sites sacred to Judaism, – and, in some cases, to all three. and Islam trip below sea level to a day Take where the Essenes hid the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Roman legions. Then head south of Je- rusalem to friendly of and the troubled city of Jesus,

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