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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 06/06/2026 13:18:00

Built on the slopes of Mount Carmel above one of the eastern Mediterranean's finest natural harbours, Haifa is Israel's third city and its great port — a place with a proudly different character from both Jerusalem's religious intensity and Tel Aviv's secular hedonism. It is known throughout Israel as a model of Jewish-Arab coexistence, a working port city of pragmatic tolerance, and the world centre of the Baháʼí Faith, whose extraordinary terraced gardens cascade down the mountainside in one o...