Everett Potter's Travel Report

Bab Shrine and the Baha'i Gardens, Haifa

by Ed Wetschler

When last we stood on the slopes of Mount Carmel, which rises from the blue sea to give Haifa a humpback, Ziv Cohen and I were bantering about the slim odds of finding much kosher dining in this Israeli city. (See Part I.)
    Does that make you think of Tel Aviv? Think again. Whereas Tel Aviv rocks with all-night clubs and twentysomething beachgoers flaunting washboard abs, Haifa is subtler, more mature in its pleasures.

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By Ed Wetschler

“Haifa is the most beautiful city in Israel,” says guide Ziv Cohen as we gaze at the Mediterranean from a high terrace. And he’s right. Looking around, I’m reminded not of Jerusalem, with its ancient golden stones, nor Tel Aviv, where town meets beach, but of San Francisco. Except that here, the water is warmer and calmer, the sky is bluer, and there are more Jews. Well, sort of.

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