PUBLIC MARKS from msgbeepa with tags history & pictures

Amazing and Beautiful photos from Tel Aviv and Jaffa, that you can t find in other place! Israel Tourism never was so popular before. Thousands of years of history comer together in Jaffa, one of world’s oldest cities and the birthplace of Tel Aviv. This Tel Aviv Pictures Show A center of tourism, food and fun, with an exotic Levantine ambiance. Driving to Jaffa is like going through a time tunnel – skyscrapers soar on the left, while ahead lays a city with thousands of years behind it.

Caesarea area has had a long and checkered history. It was initially settled during the Hellenistic period (third century B.C.E.), when the Phoenicians built a small port city that they named Straton’s Tower. In 90 B.C.E., Alexander Jannaeus captured Straton’s Tower as part of his policy of developing the shipbuilding industry and enlarging the Hasmonean kingdom. Straton’s Tower remained a Jewish city for two generations, until the Roman conquest of 63 B.C.E. when the Romans declared Straton’s Tower an autonomous city.