ancient ruins
Akko (Acre)
A UNESCO-listed Crusader city with remarkably preserved underground knights' halls, Ottoman bazaars, and fortifications on the Mediterranean coast.
19 km · about 20 min drive
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Rekhasim
Haifa, Israel · Asia
About Rekhasim
Rekhasim is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Nofit, 38km from Rosh HaNikra Grottoes.
Rekhasim is in Haifa, Israel, with about 13,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Nofit, about 5 km away.
Rekhasim (Hebrew: רכסים, lit. 'Mountain Ridges') is a Haredi town in the Haifa District of Israel. It is located between Kiryat Tiv'on, Kiryat Ata, and Nesher, next to roads 70, 75, and 762.
With a jurisdiction of 2,859 dunams (~2.9 km2), it had a population of 15,086 in 2024. It is ranked low (2 out of 10) on theRead more
Israeli socio-economic scale.
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What is there to see near Rekhasim?
Within an hour or so of Rekhasim: Akko (Acre) (19 km), Caesarea Maritima (34 km), Rosh HaNikra Grottoes (38 km), Mount Arbel (38 km).
Where is Rekhasim?
Rekhasim is in Haifa, Israel, about 5 km from Nofit.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 12,668
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Israel
- Region
- Haifa
- Timezone
- Asia/Jerusalem
- Coordinates
- 32.7496, 35.1006
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Worth the detour from Rekhasim
6 notable places within an hour's drive.
ancient ruins
Caesarea Maritima
A spectacular Roman-era port city with a grand amphitheater, aqueducts, and crusader fortifications on the Mediterranean coast.
34 km · about 40 min drive
natural wonder
Rosh HaNikra Grottoes
Sea-carved tunnels running 200m through white chalk cliffs on the Lebanese border, reached by a cable car advertised as the world's steepest at a 60-degree gradient. The water inside glows electric blue.
38 km · about 45 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Mount Arbel
A cliff dropping 380m to the Sea of Galilee, with fortified caves cut into its face by Jewish rebels and a lookout taking in the whole lake to the Golan. Israel's only base-jumping mountain.
38 km · about 45 min drive
natural wonder
Sea of Galilee
The largest freshwater lake in Israel, central to Christian scripture and surrounded by important biblical sites including Capernaum and the Mount of Beatitudes.
46 km · about 55 min drive
ancient ruins
Tyre (Sour)
A UNESCO-listed ancient Phoenician port city with one of the best-preserved Roman hippodromes in the world and extensive archaeological remains.
59 km · about 70 min drive
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- 38 kmMount ArbelA cliff dropping 380m to the Sea of Galilee, with fortified caves cut into its face by Jewish rebels and a lookout taking in the whole lake to the Golan. Israel's only base-jumping mountain.
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