United States
- Traveler's advisories for Israel (14-Sep-1999 and 29-Sep-1999) and Jordan (14-Sep-1999 and 16-Dec-1999)
- The American Embassy in Tel Aviv (If I ever forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget how to sign the check for my income tax payment!) The Consular section of the US Consulate in Jerusalem is http://www.usis-jerusalem.org/visas.htm.
- The American Embassy in Jordan
- The Centers for Disease Control
- If there was ever any question about washing your hands before eating, go read http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol3no2/shimshon.htm!
Governmental Organizations
The United States Department of State
Israel
- The Jewish Agency for Israel
- The WZO Hagshama Department
- Organization for rehabilitation through Traning (ORT) (a.k.a. the World ORT Union (WOU) a.k.a the Women's American ORT (WAORT))
- National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW)
- Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC)
- World Union of Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) and the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism. Check out http://rj.org/wupj/isr.html for lots of links!
- Women and Feminism
- Neve Yerushalayim, an Orthodox yeshiva for women in Jerusalem.
- The are political organizations, such as IRAC and WUPJ, which might be considered religious by the easily confused, such as me! That are filed under NonGovernmental Organizations.
- BEIT DANIEL The Center for Progressive Judaism in Tel Aviv. Check out http://www.beit-daniel.org.il/links.html
- Israeli Government Websites
- The Embassy of Israel (to the United States)
- The Office of The Prime Minister - Contact List
- This page has the E-mail address of the prime minister of Israel. If you have comments about Israeli policy, this is the page to go to to send them.
- Welcome to the Office of The Prime Minister
- Iguide - your guide to Israeli internet
- Virtual Jerusalem
- NetVision
- The NetVision link is a link to their customer list, which in turn is a lot of the movers and shakers in Israel.
- Hebrew on the Net
- Information Technology in Israel
- Science & Tecnology
- Hadassah Patents available for License
- Note: Electric current The electric current used in Israel is 220 Volts Ac, single phase, 50 Hertz. Three-pin sockets are commonly used, but some use two-pin plugs as well.
- Bird Watching
- My wife is an artist and so I am naturally biased in favor of art studios and schools.
- Tel Aviv Museum of Art (This link is broken, which is odd because they are running on a Sun with Solaris 2.x operating system and apache 1.3.9) www.bezalel.ac.il/lin.html
- JOE ALON CENTER The Museum of Bedouin Culture
- The Eretz Israel Museum
- The Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv ("Haaretz Museum"), is a multidisciplinary museum which exhibits opulent collections in the fields of Archaeology, Judaica, Ethnography, Material Culture and the Applied Arts of the Land of Israel.
- The Leon Azoulay gallery and the Moshe Dadon gallery in Safed
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
Feminist NGOs
Israel Women's Network is a non-partisan organization of women who, while representing a wide range of political opinions and religious outlooks, are nonetheless united in their desire to improve the status of women in Israel..
Women of the Wall The International Committee for Women of the Kotel, Inc. (ICWK) E-mail: Gail Labovitz at galabovitz@JTSA.EDU. or Haviva Ner-David.
News, Sports and Weather
Religion
Religious
freedom from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Jewish Society
Ascent in Safed, a school of Kabbalah (or Qabbalah or Cabbalah)
Jewish Society
Ascent in Safed, a school of Kabbalah (or Qabbalah or Cabbalah)
The Israeli Government
Science and Technology
Internet (ISPs, Browser information)
Places to go and things to do
A list of Museums
Tel Aviv
Beth Hatefutsoth - the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora,. Includes a virtual exhibition. http://www.bh.org.il/links.htm
A page of Art Museums and activities in Tel Aviv.
Jaffa
Safed
- Bazalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem. Bazalel is an craftsman (see Exodus 31 & 35)
- The Temple Mount in Jerusalem
- The Marc Chagall Windows at Hadassah
- Yad Vashem
- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- A page of Art Museums and Activities in Jerusalem
- The Israeli Air Force Museum
- The Museum offers guided tours in a number of languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Amharic, German, Swedish and Turkish.
Jerusalem
Amman
Petra
Elsewhere
- Current Exchange rates for many foriegn currencies and recent history of exchange rates with the U.S. dollar
- This shows two things: 1) The New Israel Shekel (NIS) is worth a little less than a quarter and 2) The shekel is doing well against the dollar. Inflation is actually lower in Israel than it is in the United States.
- Israeli money - current banknotes, first series. Current banknotes, second series. Obsolete banknotes, which are no longer legal currency but which are beautiful in their own way.
- Bank Leumi
- Bank Hapoalim
- Israel Discount Bank - Economic trends
- Updated biweekly, this is dated 4-January-2000
- Israel's Economic Background
- The Israel Port and Railroad Authority.
- This is listed here instead of under transportation because this web site is basic marketing information - we have ships, we have trains, we're investing in infrastructure and we're easy to do business with. Fascinating stuff, I am sure, to somebody but not to me, and I like trains! Useless.
- Infrastructure planning - Israel is building a tollway, of roughly the same dimensions as I-90 from Seattle to Ritzville!
- Israel's railroad. This is a useful site.
- Israel is not much larger than the State of Washington. They have recognized that rail transportation is cheap and efficient and safe if you make the capital improvements required to make it so. The State of Washington, by of contrast, is investing in Sports Stadia.
- Also, IDF soldiers get to ride for free - nice touch.
- The Egged Bus cooperative.
- Egged is a Kibbutz on wheels. Unfortunately, their website is almost entirely in hebrew.
- Where is our airplane? Use TheTrip to find out (uses real time flow control data from the FAA)
- The history of Safed/Tsfat
- Ya'ar Yerushalayim
- Transportation map of Israel (but not surrounding areas)
- Map of Israel 286x756 pixels .62 Km/pixel
- Israel: Geography, Maps and Information - Geography
- Historical Maps from the Israeli Government
- The Railroad of Israel
- Geology and tectonics concerning the dead sea/rift Israel
- Al Mashriq - Geology
- The Israel Virtual Bookstore -- Books : Geology
- BGU Dept. of Geology and Mineralogy Home Page...
- BGU is the Ben Gurion University of the Negev
- Welcome to Geophysical Institute of Israel
- Institute Earth Sciences
- Sepphoris Home Page
- The Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences of Tel-Aviy University
- The Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences of Tel-Aviy University
- IALC: Soils of Arid Regions of the U.S. and Israel: Israel soils: Soil Map
- Includes satellite photography and a detailed soils map
Economics
Transportation
- A list
of some bus routes from the Christian Information Centre
History
Recent History
Ancient History
Archeology
Resources in Israel
- The Ministry of
Foreign Affairs archeology page
Educational Tourism at Kibbutz Malkiya
Resources outside of Israel
- The United
States Library of Congress exhibition: Scrolls from the Dead Sea