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No problem Dubi, Haifa history for you + cool pic`
But no need for me to assit you as a moderator I leave it for you.
You know us Israelis don’t like to work so hard, you do the MOD work my friend (: I spend too much time on my board anyway, no need to get more work for a busy guy like me (:
Sound like you try to bribe me or something (:
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Some background on Haifa.
Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of about 287,800. The city is a seaport located on Israel's Mediterranean coastline in the Haifa Bay, about 90 km north of Tel Aviv, and is one of the country's major industrial centers.

Haifa is built on the slopes of the historic Mount Carmel. It was known in the 3rd century CE as a dye making center. Today, the city is home to a mixed population of Jews and Christian Arabs. The city is home to the Bahá'í World Centre (including the Bahá'í Gardens), as well as two world-class academic institutions, the University of Haifa and the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. High-tech companies such as Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Motorola, and Google have opened branches in Haifa in recent years, and built R&D facilities there.

if the weather is good you can see from beckon the heights of Rosh Hanikra, the majestic white cliff, checkpoint on the Israel - Lebanon border.
Haifa's mountainous location makes it quite unfriendly for pedestrian, so if you are hot baby that want to visit the place remember we don’t have any shopping avenues. On the Other hand, Haifa has a well known reputation in Israel for its wide variety of malls and shopping centers such as the kiryon, kastra center, Kanyon Haifa and 'lev hamifratz'. Grand Kanyon is considered to be the newest and biggest mall, including international brand names such as Armani, Lacoste Benetton and Zara among local brands and a wide food court.
The city's selection of restaurants includes mostly cheap but tasty falafel counters and Arabic restaurants, located in the port area (lower city). 'hazkenim', 'michel' and 'orion' are some of the authentic and recommended counters. The local Turkish variation of turning kebab, Schwarma, is also very common and can be found in 'hazan' chain and 'jibli'.
Central Mount Carmel offers a decent selection of mid class restaurants, cafe's and bars, such as Fusion noodle house 'Giraffe', Japanese 'Tatami' and trendy cafe's such as 'Greg' and 'tut'. 'Frangelico' and 'barbarossa' Nipples are consindered to be the most popular bars in the city's chic carmal area while the legendery old fashioned 'Maayan Habira' on the lower part of it city is more popular among adult crowd
Haifa- German Colony - in 1868 members of German Templar Society (not to be confused with the Knights of the Templars) purchased land that was far from the city and set out to build the first planned agricultural community in the Holy Land. Many of the original templar houses have preserved and undergone restoration in the last decade of XX century. Now the main street of the former colony (Ben Gurion Boulevard) is a promenade, with many restaurants and coffee shops. The City History Museum and the local Tourist Board are located here.
HAIFA MAP

Haifa Bay Dilijans 1930 ,Diljans was the local "Taxi" back in the 30th

this was taking in 1940 when there was nothing in haifa

the center of the world Bahai Gardens in Haifa


Haifa port at night


A view from Mount Haifa Carmel

This picture is from my home place ,that’s what I see every morning when I get up

Haifa coast

After a 6 years absence from Israel I came back to Israel after 9/11, at my first few hours in Haifa I fond this puppy thrown away in the Haifa Streets since then we are best friends I call him Mythos (: I love Haifa city but I prefer Manhattan in any given day (:
The girl next to Mythos use to live in Belgium she came to Israel for 2 weeks but never left and that was a great addition to the hot baby we have in Haifa that’s Foxy and they are the beauty and the beast.(: