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Tennis Center Headquarters: The Israel Tennis Center (ITC), a non–profit organization, has worked for 35 years to enhance the social, psychological, and physical development of Israeli youth through the medium of sport. We provide a healthy and structured environment for children from all walks of life, teach values of cooperation, self reliance and persistence, and provide opportunities for every child to reach his or her own level of excellence. The Israel Tennis Center has also received the coveted Israel Prize in 1989 and the Prime Minister's Award in the framework of the 60th Anniversary Celebrations of Israel in 2008 for extraordinary work with children throughout the country.

Akko: The city’s fascinating historical heritage, a rare blend of East and West, authentic sights from the past, a unique meeting place of art and religion alongside the remains of various cultures – all these have made Acre one of the most important cities of the ancient world.

The walls of the city, its fortresses and citadels, its churches and mosques and the other buildings within its boundaries, tell the history of the many rulers who governed it and fought for it, who built the city and glorified it.

Rosh Hanikra: Legend relates that when our forefather Abraham left Mesopotamia (Aram Naharaim) heading for the Promised Land (Eretz Israel): "Upon reaching Sulma at Tzur, he saw the people busying themselves with weeding, when this was necessary, with tilling when the proper time for this arrived, and then he proclaimed: Would that my portion shall be in this land! Then the Lord said to him: To your seed will I give this land."
From here we learn that this was a fertile land with happy people. Many generations later, in the time of the Romans, the Talmudic sages said of this area "Why, there is no Land of Life other than Tzur and its surroundings … Over there things are cheap and plentiful …"

Rosh Hanikra is on a high mountain known as the "Ladder Range" (the ladder of Tzur – Tyre). This whole mountain range has been declared a nature reserve and consists of about 5000 dunams.

The Yad Vashem (Holocaust Museum): As the Jewish people’s living memorial to the Holocaust, Yad Vashem safeguards the memory of the past and imparts its meaning for future generations. Established in 1953, as the world center for documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem is today a dynamic and vital place of intergenerational and international encounter.

For over half a century, Yad Vashem has been committed to four pillars of remembrance:

Commemoration
Documentation
Research
Education