Travel guide to Israel and Palestine

Discover Israel and Palestine with this up-to-date handbook: Israel and Palestine attract numerous visitors with their cultural treasures, their eventful, rich history and the vital way of life of today's inhabitants. It would take months to visit all the major and minor sights - historical legacies from millennia, Christian, Jewish and Islamic sites. And finally, there must be time to bathe, relax and experience the flair of a sometimes exotic, multicultural society. The travel guide presents the country and its autonomous regions in detail yet compactly. All points of interest are listed at the beginning of each chapter and divided into four categories. Detailed descriptions can then be found in the running text. This ensures quick orientation and allows you to set priorities. Whether you want to swim and surf on the endless beaches of the Mediterranean, gain impressions of the fantastic underwater world in the Red Sea or trek through the desert, the guide will show you how to get there and what to do is. Maps corresponding to the text at all important places make it easy to find your way. When hunger finally strikes, the book points the way to the restaurant and offers plenty of alternatives for the night, where you can rest your weary head. The book also provides a basis for discussing the German past and the Israeli present. Because as a German in Israel - that is German history, which catches up with you again and again. Memorials such as Yad VaShem in Jerusalem evoke horror at the actions of the recent past. Visitors should not be less critical of today, of the Palestinian issue. Here too, it is important not to close our eyes, but to visit the Palestinian areas and get an idea of ​​the situation on the ground. Roads and possibilities are pointed out and the necessary background information is provided, so that the guest can form his own judgment, influenced as little as possible by Israeli propaganda. The 600-page book contains all the sights, as well as precise descriptions of the route and places, numerous accommodation options and restaurant recommendations, and much more information. The country is covered in great detail, so that the reader can easily find his way without outside help.