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The City of David.
The history of the City of David began more than 3,000 years ago when King David left the city of Hebron in order to move to a small town on the top of the hill, now known as Jerusalem, and turn it into the united capital of all the tribes of Israel. After years, the son of David, Solomon, built near the City of David The first temple on the top of Mount Moria - in the place where Abraham at his time was going to sacrifice his Isaac son to the Lord. So the summit of the hill became one of the most important places in the world.

The history of the City of David continues today. In the thickness of the land of the City of David, some of the most exciting finds of the ancient world are revealed. On the surface of the same city is full of life - the Tourist Center invites numerous visitors to an unforgettable tour of the places where many of the biblical legends were written.

The tour of the City of David begins with a spectacular panorama that returns the visitor to 3.800 years ago, at the time of the forefather Abraham, when the foundations of the city were laid. Soon after, the path leads to the ground, where the most recent archaeological excavations are conducted. Here, with the knowledge of the recently excavated fortresses and passages, the siege and capture by David of the ancient city of the Jebusites come to life in the imagination of visitors, as described in the Bible, in the 2nd Book of Samuel (2 Kings). The underground excursion ends at the Gihon Key, which was the most important water source of Jerusalem for more than a thousand years - here, according to the description in the Book of Kings, Solomon was anointed for the kingdom. Visitors from among more adventurous people can arm themselves with lanterns and travel along the source through a tunnel dug 2,700 years ago under King Hezekiah (Hezekiah) - one of the wonders of the engineering art of antiquity.

On a tour of the City of David, the visitor meets face to face with Biblical characters and places. Thus, it becomes the only place on the planet where the only required guidebook is the Bible itself.

Jerusalem Temple (Wikipedia)

The goal is to bring the light of the Torah to the Jews, to give readers the opportunity to study the Torah, even at work at lunchtime, on the road or on vacation.
The site is created and maintained by the Toldot Yeshurun organization.
The editors are professionals in their field.

The site is updated at the beginning of each hour.
Audio and video tutorials on Judaism listen and watch tens of thousands of Russian-speaking Jews around the world.
Daily live TV allows users to ask questions to the lecturer online,
“Ask” section - consult with a rabbi,
and Family — with a religious family counselor — on any subject.

The library will help to find the necessary book on Judaism in Russian.
There is an illustrated Jewish encyclopedia.
The online store offers hundreds of books of Judaism in Russian and Hebrew, audio and video CDs with music, films and lessons, attributes of Judaism from bales to tefillin, souvenirs from Jerusalem’s shops.
On the site you can even find a mate for building a Jewish family.

One-time mail with many addresses.
One of the advantages of this one-time mail is that you can create mail on one of 10 domains.
Login, of course, any.
Let's say we register somewhere and we need mail, we gave it up, we opened it and we wait for the answer. The answer will appear without overloading the page.

The site itself is simple and understandable, does not require registration.

Created on the basis of the Short Jewish Encyclopedia, published in Jerusalem in 1976-2005. Society for the Study of Jewish Communities in collaboration with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The site is owned by World ORT; Sponsors: the Avi Hai Foundation and the European Rothschild Foundation (Ha-Nadiv).

Very simple and conveniently constructed, using original Hebrew terms. Recently, the site interface has been updated to look good on modern devices.
The site has been completely redesigned, corrected, supplemented, redesigned navigation.

Flexible representation of the texts of the encyclopedia, facilitates integration with external mechanisms of the information space, including the logical markup of content for processing by search engines, and also increases the availability of materials for users of social networks.

The editors continue to work on the refinement and active testing of our site.

Jewish cultural and religious center.
Center for Jewish Education in Russian.

Materials: articles, books, audio and video materials on Judaism and Jewish culture.

Education: courses, lectures, seminars, Shiuri, excursions, online lessons.

Projects: Ulpan of Jewish heritage, training courses for the giyur, community centers, book publishing.

About Mahanaim: the history of creation, activity today, social networks.

Christian tours to the Holy Land.
One of the leading travel agencies in Israel, collaborates with Christian communities around the world. Making up the program of the tour, takes into account individual wishes and requests of each group.

To tell the truth, it seemed to us that the guide knows everything: the history of Israel, the political situation inside Israel and its neighbors, the Bible, Hebrew, Russian, English (probably Aramaic and something Yet), the culture of the Jews, Christian and Russian, explain everything from the migration of birds, the depth of the lakes, the height of the mountains, the annual precipitation, the temperature, who where, when ... believe me, learn a lot of interesting things.
The guide accompanies the group from the airport, Will help you stay and learn how to shop.

Purpose

• Israel is a country where the Bible, faith and history form a single whole, and prophecy and promise continue to be fulfilled.
• Sarel employees want to be not just a travel agency, but to build a bridge between the Holy Land and Christian communities.

A wide range of local contacts will allow you to organize interesting meetings for the group with local politicians, representatives of Christian communities; Listen to the lectures of professionals in any area of interest to you: in agriculture, the media, etc.

Tour "All Peoples"

Pilgrim tour

Youth tour

Ministry of Tourism of Israel.
The main goal of the Ministry of Tourism is to attract foreign guests to the country. To this end, the Ministry established the State Tourism Company, which deals with marketing, professional training of personnel, control of hotels, advertising, etc.

The ministry's second most important task is the development of domestic tourism, i.e. Encouraging Israelis to rest within the country.

The Institute of the Temple ('Mahon ha-Mykdash' מןון המשדש.)
This institute is engaged in studying the description of the temple and prepares everything necessary for the construction of the third temple.
When the victorious emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was in Rome during the 9th Av, he was very surprised by the sight of the grieving Jews. With natural curiosity, he sent an adjutant to find out what they were crying about.

- They mourn the destruction of the Temple, Your Majesty.
- Who destroyed it and when?
- Emperor of Rome Vespasian, 1800 years ago, - puffed out the puffed adjutant.
- If people can remember their past, such people have a future. If the people are able to remember their Temple and cry for it for two thousand years, it will be able to build it, "the emperor said for the chronograph following him. Today the state of Israel is restored, which was unthinkable in the days of Napoleon. The temple will be built tomorrow.

The main exhibits are scrolls of the dead sea. As can be seen in the photo below, the design of the building of the museum itself is made in the form of a clay vessel cover in which the scrolls were kept.

With the assistance of Google, 5 online scrolls, including the most extant - the prophet Isaiah, became available. Very conveniently done, in the form of a scroll, which you can scroll, zoom in and see on the scale in which place of the scroll you are. We'll move the mouse over the scroll, the verse will be highlighted, and in the clue there is a place in the Bible, with a click on the translation into English.

Thanks to the skillful work of photographer Ardon Bar-Hama, even the smallest details are visible on them. The resolution of the photos is 1200 megapixels, which is 200 times higher than the quality of a normal picture.
With this resolution, you will see how thin the animal skin on which it is written is just one tenth of a millimeter.

This is a digital scroll.

Museum building

The territory of the museum

Dead Sea Scrolls

Booking hotels and tours online.
There is a choice of cheap hotels. Easily found the hotel for $30 per night - usually more than $80.
Choose a city, look at the map where it is.

Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Calvary.

The Jewish Encyclopedia in Russia on the web.

Based on The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia published in Jerusalem in the years 1976-2005 in cooperation with The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

History of the Jewish people, the Jews of Russia, the Jews in world civilization, Jewish literature and journalism, Zionism, the Land of Israel, the Talmud, Judaism, ...