The City of Haifa

The Technions campus is located in Haifa, on Mount Carmel. The city extends between the Carmel mountains and the Mediterranean sea and offers a wide range of leisure entertainment and sports possibilities. It is a short drive from Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and the Galilee.

Located on Mount Carmel overlooking the Mediterranean, the City of Haifa, Israels major port, is a center of advanced industry and higher-education, and an attractive tourist site. Haifa is home to 250,000 inhabitants (500,000 in the larger metropolitan area), with members of five different religions - Jews, Christians, Moslems, Bahai and Druze, living side by side in harmony and mutual respect.

Haifa is known for its scenic landscape. It offers beautiful mountain walks in a natural Mediterranean-type forest and sandy Mediterranean beaches. Nearby are the historic port cities of Acre and Caesarea, along with the green pastoral hills of the Lower and Upper Galilee. Haifa is only an hour's drive from cosmopolitan Tel-Aviv or from the sea of Galilee, and a two-hour drive from Jerusalem. Among the citys cultural features are The Haifa Symphony Orchestra, The Municipal Theater and a variety of museums, among them museums of art and archeology, history, music, Japanese art and culture, and science and technology. Haifa supports a full range of sports activity on land and sea - from sailing through wind-surfing to diving, as well as gymnastics, fencing, etc.

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