Haifa

Bahá'í gardens in Haifa

Haifa (/ˈhaɪfə/ HY-fə; Hebrew: חֵיפָה, romanized: Ḥēyfā, IPA: [ˈχajfa]; Arabic: حَيْفَا, romanized: Ḥayfā) is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of 290,306 in 2022. The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area in Israel. It is home to the Baháʼí Faith's Baháʼí World Centre, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a destination for Baháʼí pilgrimage.

Quotes

• Haifa lies on the seashore, and there are here palm-gardens and trees in numbers. There are in this town shipbuilders, who build very large craft
  • w:Nasir-i-Khusrau according to The library of the Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society (1047)

• The Commanding Officer of the Home Front Command visited the Haifa rocket impact site and said, "The resilience and steadfast strength of the Home Front enables the IDF to continue operating, striking, and hitting our targets— we will persist and continue to do so."
  • Six wounded after Hezbollah rocket causes fire in Petah Tikva, direct hit on building in Haifa (By Yonah Jeremy Bob, Danielle Greyman-Kennard Jerusalem Post November 24, 2024)