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Haifa ( / ˈhaɪfə / HY-fə; Hebrew: חֵיפָה, romanized : Ḥēyfā, IPA: [ˈχajfa]; Arabic: حَيْفَا, romanized : Ḥayfā) [2] is the third-largest city in Israel —after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv —with a population of 290,306 in 2022.
The Baháʼí World Centre is the name given to the spiritual and administrative centre of the Baháʼí Faith, [1] representing sites in or near the cities of Acre and Haifa, Israel . Much of the international governance and coordination of the Baháʼí Faith occurs at the Baháʼí World Centre, including global teaching plans and study and ...
Terraces (Baháʼí) The Baháʼí Terraces, or the Hanging Gardens of Haifa, are garden terraces on Mount Carmel in Haifa, and one of the most popular tourist destinations in Israel. Completed in 2001, there are 19 terraces and more than 1,500 steps ascending the mountain. [1] The central terrace has the Shrine of the Báb, one of the main ...
The University of Haifa is home to the Hecht Museum of archaeology and art, several research centers and institutes, including the Evolution Institute, Center for the Study of the Information Society, Center for the Study of National Security, Tourism Research Center, and more. The university also hosts a large IBM research center on its campus.
Returning to Haifa (Arabic: عائد إلى حيفا, lit. 'Returning to Haifa') is a novella by Palestinian author and journalist Ghassan Kanafani depicting the Israeli occupation of formerly British-controlled Palestinian land during and after the 1948 Battle of Haifa .
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, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Crusaders, Kurds, the Mamluks, the Ottoman Turks and the British; currently it is a major city in Israel.It is a mixed city of Jews and Arab citizens of Israel.
The Battle of Haifa, called by the Jewish forces Operation Bi'ur Hametz ( Hebrew: מבצע ביעור חמץ "Passover Cleaning"), [2] was a Haganah operation carried out on 21–22 April 1948 and a major event in the final stages of the civil war in Palestine, leading up to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The objective of the operation was the ...
Haifa Pilgrim Reception Centre. The Pilgrim Reception Centre or the "Haifa Pilgrim Reception Centre" was the old Pilgrim Reception Centre for pilgrimage to sites near the Baháʼí World Centre. It comprised two conjoined buildings of a historic medical clinic, that had been remodeled and opened in October 2000.