Answer: Netanya must visit Independence Square with the monument "Memory and Glory", the Palace of Culture "Geihal ha-Tarbut" in the style of the Bauhaus and the promenade with a 14-kilometer promenade. The architectural dominant of the city is the 1936 Clock Tower, the only surviving of the four towers of the British Mandate era. For a history visit the Beit Haagdudot Museum, dedicated to the Jewish underground of the 1940s.
Answer: Netanya's central quarters reflect three key styles: international (Schneerson's house by architect Joseph Berlin), Bauhaus (residential complexes of the 1930s) and modernism (municipality building). Of particular value are the “white cities” – neighborhoods of the 1930s and 50s, included in the preliminary list of UNESCO. Alumni of the Bauhaus School, including Arie Sharon, participated in the design.
Answer: Children will be interested in the Utopia Orchid Park with tropical greenhouses, the interactive museum “Sand Center” with a mineralogical collection and the ostriches farm “Yamin Orde”. In the archaeological park Umm Khaled you can see the ruins of the XII century Crusaders and Byzantine mosaics. For teenagers there is an exhibition complex "Auditorium" with technological exhibits.
Answer: The best shots are obtained at the Wings Fountain in Kikar HaAtzmaut Square, against the background of the orange plantations of the Beit Jehoshua Moshav and in the old town with its characteristic two-storey houses of the 1930s. A unique angle opens from the observation deck at the lighthouse - against the background of the Mediterranean sunset and the rocks of Pardis HaGalim.
Answer: In 1948, the building of the current Palmach Museum housed a secret factory for the production of ammunition. Under the city are preserved the catacombs of the Second Temple period, where the rebels of Bar Kokhba hid. A unique artifact is a marble slab of the IV century with an inscription in Greek, discovered during the construction of a shopping center.
Answer: In the 1950s, the Nobel laureate Shmuel Agnon lived in Netanya, who wrote part of the novel Very Recently here. Albert Einstein stayed at the house on Herzl Street during a visit in 1923. The modern history of the city is associated with the name of the mayor Miriam Fireberg, who led Netanya for 29 years - from 1983 to 2012.
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