Tel Aviv, with its celebrated Pride Parade and welcoming atmosphere, has become a tourist mecca for gay travelers.

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Jaffa Road, the dowdy, congested and polluted main street of Jerusalem, will be transformed into a “string of pearls studded with gems”—a series of piazzas

Nahariya’s streets ring with the clip-clop of horses pulling Amish-style buggies filled with vacationers. This relaxed seaside resort, originally a farming community, is the capital

Corfu, one of the greenest and prettiest of the Greek islands, is also the best fortified. The two massive stone fortresses overlooking Corfu town succeeded

Ringed by mountains, Santa Fe is indeed “the city different,” as it has billed itself for nearly a century. This 400-year-old city is the oldest

When the city of Lod decided to widen a road in 1996, archaeologist Miriam Avissar was called in. The construction was to take place near

It was a summer evening at the Dead Sea. The wind breathed fire, but with every passing hour the air grew calmer and the temperature