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Israel , officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, located on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea. It has land borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan on the east, the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively, and Egypt to the southwest. The country contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel's economic and technological center is Tel Aviv, while its seat of government and proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, although the state's sovereignty over Jerusalem has only partial...
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Art Museum Attractions In Israel

  • 1. Ilana Goor Museum Jaffa
    Ilana Goor Museum or Ilana Goor Residence and Museum is an Israeli museum situated in the historical part of Jaffa, the Mediterranean port town south of Tel Aviv. The museum was founded in 1995 by Ilana Goor, an artist, designer and sculptor. Its eclectic collection has been called an artistic jungle, but Goor considers it to have been her own university.
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  • 2. Tel Aviv Museum of Art Tel Aviv
    The White City refers to a collection of over 4,000 buildings built in a unique form of the Bauhaus or International Style in Tel Aviv from the 1930s by German Jewish architects who immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine after the rise of the Nazis. Tel Aviv has the largest number of buildings in the Bauhaus/International Style of any city in the world. Preservation, documentation, and exhibitions have brought attention to Tel Aviv's collection of 1930s architecture. In 2003, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization proclaimed Tel Aviv's White City a World Cultural Heritage site, as an outstanding example of new town planning and architecture in the early 20th century. The citation recognized the unique adaptation of modern international architectural tr...
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  • 3. Negev Museum of Art Beersheba
    The Negev Museum of Art is an art museum in Negev, Israel. It is located in the Old City of Be'er Sheva. The building is the former Governor's Mansion, built in 1906 by the Ottomans as part of government edifices that include the Seraya and the local mosque.
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  • 4. Tzfat Gallery of Mystical Art Safed
    Safed is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elevation of 900 metres , Safed is the highest city in the Galilee and in Israel. Due to its high elevation, Safed experiences warm summers and cold, often snowy, winters.Safed has been identified with Sepph, a fortified town in the Upper Galilee mentioned in the writings of the Roman-Jewish historian Josephus. The Jerusalem Talmud mentions it as one of five elevated spots where fires were lit to announce the New Moon and festivals during the Second Temple period. In the 12th century CE Safed was a fortified city in the Crusaders' Kingdom of Jerusalem, known to them as Saphet. The Mamluk Sultan Baibars captured the city in 1266 and appointed a governor to take charge of the fortress. The city also became the administrative c...
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  • 5. Ashdod Museum of Art - Monart Centre Ashdod
    Ashdod is the sixth-largest city and the largest port in Israel accounting for 60% of the country's imported goods. Ashdod is located in the Southern District of the country, on the Mediterranean coast where it is situated between Tel Aviv to the North and Ashkelon to the South . Jerusalem is 53 km to the east. The city is also an important regional industrial center. Modern Ashdod covers the territory of two ancient twin towns, one inland and one on the coast, which were for most of their history two separate entities, connected by close ties with each other. This article deals with these historic towns, including other ancient nearby sites, and modern Ashdod. The first documented urban settlement at Ashdod dates to the Canaanite culture of the 17th century BCE, making the city one of the...
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  • 6. Israeli Art Museum Ramat Gan
    The Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art is an art museum that displays Israeli art, located on Abba Hillel Street, Ramat Gan, Israel. The museum was opened on 4 April 1987. The museum has been showcasing eclectical exhibitions since the day of its opening. For numerous reasons, directors have come and gone, and the current director is the curator Meir Aharonson. Of the museum's most popular and prominent exhibitions, we can find photographer Simha Shimran's photography exhibition, curator Yehudit Mezkel's motherhood themed group exhibition, and more. The building was built in the 1930s with the initial purpose of serving as an industrial plant. Prior to the opening of the museum, the building was converted into a museum space by architect Danny Schwarz, in order to serve its new purpose.
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  • 7. L. A. Mayer Memorial Museum of Islamic Art Jerusalem
    Louis Isadore Kahn was an American architect, based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935. While continuing his private practice, he served as a design critic and professor of architecture at Yale School of Architecture from 1947 to 1957. From 1957 until his death, he was a professor of architecture at the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Kahn created a style that was monumental and monolithic; his heavy buildings for the most part do not hide their weight, their materials, or the way they are assembled. Famous for his meticulously-built works, his provocative proposals that remained unbuilt, and his teaching, Kahn was one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. He w...
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  • 10. Petach Tikva Museum Of Art Petah Tiqwa
    Petah Tikva , also known as Em HaMoshavot , is a city in the Central District of Israel, 10.6 km east of Tel Aviv. It was founded in 1878, mainly by Orthodox Jews of the Old Yishuv, and became a permanent settlement in 1883 with the financial help of Baron Edmond de Rothschild. In 2017 the city had a population of 240,357. Its population density is approximately 6,277 inhabitants per square kilometre . Its jurisdiction covers 35,868 dunams . Petah Tikva is part of the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area.
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  • 11. Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art Haifa
    The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art is a museum on the crest of Mount Carmel, in Haifa, Israel, dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of Japanese art. It is the only such museum in the Middle East. It was established in 1959 on the initiative of Felix Tikotin of the Netherlands, and Abba Hushi, then mayor of Haifa.
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  • 12. Mane Katz Museum Haifa
    Emmanuel Mané-Katz , born Mane Leyzerovich Kats , was a Litvak painter born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, best known for his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe.
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  • 14. Haifa Museum of Art Haifa
    Haifa is the third-largest city in Israel – after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv– with a population of 281,087 in 2017. The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the second- or third-most populous metropolitan area in Israel. It is home to the Bahá'í World Centre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a destination for Bahá'í pilgrims.Built on the slopes of Mount Carmel, the settlement has a history spanning more than 3,000 years. The earliest known settlement in the vicinity was Tell Abu Hawam, a small port city established in the Late Bronze Age . In the 3rd century CE, Haifa was known as a dye-making center. Over the millennia, the city has changed hands: being conquered and ruled by the Canaanites, Israelites, Phoenicians, Persians, Hasmoneans, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, ...
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  • 15. Jewish Yemenite Culture & Art Museum Jaffa
    Yemenite Jews or Yemeni Jews or Teimanim are those Jews who live, or once lived, in Yemen. The term may also refer to the descendants of the Yemenite Jewish community. Between June 1949 and September 1950, the overwhelming majority of Yemen's Jewish population was transported to Israel in Operation Magic Carpet. After several waves of persecution throughout Yemen, most Yemenite Jews now live in Israel, while small communities are found in the United States and elsewhere. Only a handful remain in Yemen. The few remaining Jews experience intense, and at times violent, anti-Semitism on a daily basis although in an interview with a Yemenite rabbi, he claimed that they were definitely treated very well before the recent war in Yemen which has effected all sort of communities in Yemen. He has al...
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