13 June 2026 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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The National Library of Israel building at Givat Ram campus © Amitay Katz
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) is an
Israeli public research university based in
Jerusalem . Co-founded by
Albert Einstein and
Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, it is the second-oldest institution of higher learning in Israel, having been founded 30 years before the
establishment of the State of Israel but six years after the older
Technion university. Its location on
Mount Scopus —as an Israeli exclave within
Palestine —means that the campus is situated in
East Jerusalem yet is considered part of Israel.
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25 April 2026 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut (
Hebrew : Mōdīʿīn-Makkabbīm-Rēʿūt), usually referred to as just Modi’in, is a city in the
Central District of
Israel , about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of
Tel Aviv and 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of
Jerusalem , and is connected to those two cities via
Highway 443 . In 2024 the population was 100,052. The population density in that year was 1,794 people per square kilometer.
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20 April 2026 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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Great Synagogue, Founders Square and Village Bell © MathKnight/cc-by-2.5
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Rishon LeZion (lit.: “First to
Zion “) is a city in
Israel , located along the central
Israeli coastal plain eight kilometres (5 mi) south of
Tel Aviv . It is part of the
Gush Dan metropolitan area . With a population of 259,275 as of 2024, Rishon LeZion is the
fifth-largest city in Israel.
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6 April 2026 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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The Resurrection Church (
Latin : Ecclesia Resurrectionis Domini Nostri Iesu), or the
Church of the Crusaders in Abu Gosh , is the name given to a Catholic religious building consisting of a structure of the time of
the Crusaders who belonged to the
Knights Hospitaller , and today is a part of the
Benedictine monastery in Abu Ghosh , in central
Israel .
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19 March 2026 | Author/Destination: Around the World / Rund um die Welt | Category: General
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Abyan Beach in Aden in Yemen at the Gulf of Aden © Ahmedxalkatheri/cc-by-sa-4.0
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The Red Sea is a
sea inlet of the
Indian Ocean , lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the
Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the
Gulf of Aden . To the north of the Red Sea lies the
Sinai Peninsula , the
Gulf of Aqaba , and the
Gulf of Suez , which leads to the
Suez Canal . It is underlain by the
Red Sea Rift , which is part of the
Great Rift Valley .
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13 March 2026 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Opera Houses, Theaters, Libraries , Union for the Mediterranean
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The Habima Theatre (
Hebrew : Te’atron HaBima, lit. “The Stage Theatre”) is the
national theatre of
Israel and one of the first
Hebrew language theatres. It is located in
Habima Square in the center of
Tel Aviv .
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23 February 2026 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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The Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, located in
Jaffa ,
Israel , is an independent
non-profit ,
non-governmental , and
non-political organization founded in 1996 by
Nobel Peace Laureate and former
President of Israel Shimon Peres . Its aim is to further Peres’ vision of people in the
Middle East working together to build peace through socio-economic cooperation and development and people-to-people interaction.
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13 February 2026 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Union for the Mediterranean
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The Nova Festival Victims Memorial is a monument commemorating the victims of the
Nova music festival massacre during the
October 7 attacks . It is located in the Re’im parking lot near
Re’im in the
Southern District of
Israel , where the festival took place on October 6–7, 2023.
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28 January 2026 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Category: Portrait
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Theodor Meron,
CMG (born 28 April 1930) is an American lawyer and judge. He served as a judge of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY),
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and the
International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism). He served as President of the ICTY four times (2002-2005 and 2011–2015) and inaugural President of the Mechanism for three terms (2012–2019).
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