The Jerusalem Bird Observatory has just opened a new visitor center, and its Israel’s first ‘living’ building. Another green lung in Jerusalem awaits…

The Pope came to Israel in early 2009, and Nazareth was one of the areas given big government grants to improve its tourism infrastructure for this. As a result, Nazareth has been given a push back onto Israel’s tourism map – and with its importance as the childhood home of Jesus, as the largest Arab city in Israel, and its stunning location right in the middle of the Lower Galilee (about 15 miles west of the Sea of Galilee), that push shouldn’t really have been neccessary.

Tel Aviv has a unique style of architecture ranging from the Modernist, International-style White City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site for having the highest concentration of this architectural style in the world, to more oriental and Middle Eastern architecture.