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Mediterranean port cities and towns in Israel

  • Acre, IsraelThe earliest discovered settlement at Acre dates to around 3000 BC during the Early Bronze Age. This initial community appears to have been abandoned after a…
  • HaifaTell Abu Hawam emerged as a small port city during the Late Bronze Age, around the 14th century BCE. Archaeologists have uncovered jars and remains from Iron…
  • JaffaThe city of Jaffa sits atop a naturally elevated outcrop on the Mediterranean coastline, where excavations indicate settlement as early as the Early Bronze…
  • Tel AvivOn the 11th of April 1909, sixty-six Jewish families gathered on a desolate sand dune north of Jaffa to parcel out land by lottery using seashells.