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Haifa's development owed much to British plans to make it a central port and hub for Middle-East crude oil. The British Government of Palestine developed the port and built refineries, thereby facilitating the rapid development of the city as a center for the country's heavy industries. Haifa was also among the first towns to be fully electrified.
It is regarded as one of the must-visit tour sites in the area of Haifa. [32] (See below under "Carmelites (12th c.–present): El-Muhraqa site" for more). Although archaeological clues are absent, the site is favoured because it has a spring, from which water could have been drawn to wet Elijah's offering.
View of lower city and Haifa Bay.. The history of Haifa dates back before the 3rd century BCE.Since then it has been controlled by several civilizations, including the Canaanites, Israelites, Persians, Romans, Byzantines, Muslims, Crusaders, Kurds, the Mamluks, the Ottoman Turks and the British; currently it is a major city in Israel.
The architect was Fariborz Sahba from Iran, [citation needed] and the structural engineers were Karban and Co. from Haifa. The terraces are part of a complex of Baháʼí holy places in Haifa, Acre, and western Galilee that were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2008. [2] [3]
German Colony, Haifa. The German Colony (Hebrew: המושבה הגרמנית, romanized: HaMoshava HaGermanit; Arabic: الحي الألمانية; German: Deutsche Kolonie) is an area of Haifa established in 1868 during Ottoman rule as a Christian German Templer Colony in Palestine.
A map of Galilee showing the Haifa Bay Haifa Bay as viewed from Denia. Haifa Bay. Haifa: German Colony and harbour. The Bay of Haifa or Haifa Bay (Hebrew: מפרץ חיפה, Mifratz Heifa), formerly Bay of Acre, [1] is a bay along the Mediterranean coast of Northern Israel. Haifa Bay is Israel's only natural harbor on the Mediterranean.
The site of Kilometre Zero, at the plaza in front of Jaffa Gate. After the destruction of Jerusalem and the killing or enslavement of its Jewish population by the Roman Empire in 132 CE, Emperor Hadrian had the city rebuilt as a Roman city called Aelia Capitolina , and a tall pillar in the plaza inside the Damascus Gate was the starting point ...
Tell, or Ruin, of the Tower), is an archaeological site located on the Israeli coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea next to modern moshav Dor, about 30 kilometers (19 mi) south of Haifa, and 2.5 kilometers (1.6 mi) west of Hadera. Lying on a small headland at the north side of a protected inlet, it is identified with D-jr of Egyptian sources ...