Jaffa & Akko Israel by Uri Chartarifsky
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uri8855
Latin America's Famous Photographer Uri Chartarifsky, Is traveling this 2011 Summer through the beautiful and sometimes controversial country of Israel, This video, is a small sample of his work focus of Israel's 2 famous sea side villages Jaffa and Akko. The first set is of Jaffa, an ancient port city believed to be one of the oldest in the world. Jaffa has been incorporated with Tel Aviv creating the city of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel. And then there is Akko, a city in the Western Galilee region of northern Israel at the northern extremity of Haifa Bay. Acre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the country. Historically, it was a strategic coastal link to the Levant. Acre is the holiest city of the Bahá'í Faith.[3] In 2009, the population was 46300.[1] Acre is a mixed city, 72 percent Jewish and 28 percent Arab. Also Please check out the other videos featured on You Tube of Mr Chartarifsky's travels from this beautiful Country
http://wn.com/Jaffa_Akko_Israel_by_Uri_Chartarifsky
![Downtown Haifa and port. Haifa is Israel's third-largest city, consisting of 103,000 households,[3] or a population of 266,300.](http://web.archive.org./web/20120820085700/http://cdn2.wn.com/pd/10/40/5744ec9b3d62624761ae54ddc197_medium.jpg "Downtown Haifa and port. Haifa is Israel's third-largest city, consisting of 103,000 households,[3] or a population of 266,300.")
