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Ramla Tourism Site

  
There are many important sites in Ramla, some of which have great historical value.Here is a summary of the city's
historical sites and their opening hours
 
 

The White Tower 

The white tower had been the city's center in its glory days, and in the 10th century it was said that "None is more beautiful than the White Tower in all of the Islamic world". Today, in fact, there aren't any visible remains of the original structure, built in the 8th century. The current remains are from the end of the 12th century, when the structure had been renovated at the order of the Sultan Salah el Dean. The complex's courtyard holds three subterranean water pools. On the north side of the complex there is a tower, standing 30 meters high, probably used as an observation post, due to the extensive view seen from its' top. Some researchers believe that the Muezzin made the Muslim call for prayer from the tower

Address: Danny Mas St

Open Sunday-Thursday at 08:00-14:30, Fridays and holiday eves at 08:00-14:00

Saturdays and holidays 08:30-16:00

Please call to make reservations for groups

Tel: 08-9207586, 052-8510533, City service center - 08-9771780/79 08-9216873 . 0528510715
 

 The Pool of the Arches 

The rare subterranean water pool, built in 789 AD, during the rule of the famous last Halif of El Rashid. The pool probably fed of a small spring in its depths, rainwater and an aqueduct providing it with water from the direction of the white tower. The Christians call it "Saint Helen's Pool', based on a tradition claiming that Helena, mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I is the one who initiated its excavation. Earlier the pool was known as 'The pool of El Anzia" (the pool of the goats), and it used to hold water troughs for the watering of cattle. The pool, with an area of 400 sq. m, is the only remaining intact structure in Israel from the days of the Abasi Halifs (750-940 AD). The pool's ceiling is supported by gigantic stone pillars with arches between them, typical to the style of the era when they were built. The arches from the time of the crusades which copied the Abassi arch were perhaps the model from which the gothic architecture was born centuries later.

Address: Ha'Hagana St.

Open

sun ,mon, tue, fri , sat -   08.00-15.30
wed , thu 0830-21:30

Please call to make reservations for groups

Tel: 08-9207586, 052-8510715, City service center - 08-9771780/79
08-9216873  

 


The city museum – Ramla Museum
The Ramla museum was opened in 2001, in a historical building (1922), used by the Ramla municipality in the days of
 the British mandate. The museum records and presents the history of the city from its founding in the 8th century AD and to this day. The permanent exposition is made of six rooms containing exhibits presenting the everyday life, trade, art and ethnic multi-cultural fabric of the local populace. A special exhibition is dedicated to the coins of Ramla city and the buried treasures discovered in and around the city. Particularly worthy of note is the buried gold treasure from the Abassi period, which includes 376 gold coins and six golden ingots.
Other exhibits include: the history of the 1948 War of Liberation in and around the city, the Ma'abarot (refugee camps) tent representing the accelerated settlement rate in the city during the 50s and future development programs for the city.
The museum also includes a new wing for changing exhibitions of the museum's collection and works of the city's artists. The museum's education wing holds educational activities for all ages. Also located in the Museum is the "Museum-Theatre", a theatre that conveys the knowledge and findings in the museum for small children through dramatizing

Address: 112 Herzel St

Open Sunday-Thursday at 10:00-16:00, Fridays and holiday eves at 10:00-13:00

Please call to make reservations for groups

Tel: 08-9292650  ,Fax: 08-9292450, City service center - 08-9771780/79
 
 

Yad Labanim -military memorial room  

The city museum also holds Beit Yad Labanim, a memorial room to perpetuate the fallen soldiers of Israel's wars, Ramla citizens. The newly renovated memorial room includes photo albums of the fallen and a presentation memorializing Ramla's unknown soldiers. The adjacent courtyard holds a monument in their memory

Address: 112 Herzel St

Open Sunday-Thursday at 10:00-16:00, Fridays and holiday eves at 10:00-13:00

Please call to make reservations for groups

Tel: 08-9292650  ,Fax: 08-9292450, City service center - 08-9771780/79
 

  
  The City Market
The Ramla market is one of the most colorful, successful and beautiful marketplaces in Israel. The market was founded at the end of the Ottoman period and is over 100 years old. Every week, especially on Wednesdays, thousands of people visit the market, to enjoy a special shopping experience and ample parking. Ramla has many busy marketplaces and a variety of restaurants which together constitute a small scale reflection of the warm human mosaic existing in the cityJabotinsky St., which extends between Herzel St. and Ha'Maapilim St., is served as the City Market, and sells fruit and vegetables, spices, pastry, shoes etc. this is a colorful and dynamic market, and its prices are the cheapest in Israel. There are also great food stands in the market and its surroundings  
Address: Jabotinsky St

Open Sunday-Friday at 07:00-17:00

Wednesday market at 07:00-16:00

City service center - 08-9771780/79
 
 

  Karaite Center  

Ramla, the center of Karaite Jews in Israel, is home to the Karaite Rabbinical council, as well as the central Synagogue of the Karaite community. The Karaites are an important movement of the Israeli people, founded during the 8th century. The Karaites are Jews with unique views that set them apart from the central rabbinical movement of Judaism. The Karaites see the Mishna and Talmud as words of the wise men rather than oral traditions. A visit to the Karaite synagogue in Ralma teaches of the unique characteristics of this community

Address: Klauzner St

Visit only by reservations

Tel: 052-9249104, City service center - 08-9771780/79
 
 

  The Great mosque -Jama el Amri
The Great mosque was originally built as a magnificent crusaders' chapel, founded in the first half on the 12th century. In the end of the 13th century, after the Mamlochs conquered Ramla from the hands of the Christians, the place was converted into amosque. However, only few changes were made, except breaking the entrance door in the north wall and the inclusion of the Mahrab (an alcove in the wall to which the praying turn). The mosque is located in the old town and is easily recognizable thanks to the round tower that stands out from afar. It is the biggest and most preserved structure of a crusader's chapel in Israel

Address: Shlomo Ha'Melech St

Visit only by reservations

Tel: 08-9225081, City service center - 08-9771780/79
 
 
 

The mosque of Huziffa El Yemini 
A small mosque on Shafik el Ads street, overlooking the Monastery of Joseph of Arimathea was founded in the 14th century, and its original minaret still stands to this day. It is said that when Napoleon Bonaparte stayed in Ramla (on the night of March 1st,1799) at the hostel in the adjacent Franciscan monastery of Joseph of Arimathea, the voice of the Muezzin from the tower of Huzifa El Yemini mosque, and in his anger Napoleon shot the Muezzin and killed him. When napoleon retreated from Israel, the Muslims in the city rose and burnt down both churches in it. Today the mosque is
still active

Address: Shafik el Ads St

Visit only by reservations

Tel: 08-9225081, City service center - 08-9771780/79
 

 
The Franciscan Hospice of St. Nicodemus and St. Joseph of Arimathea and the Franciscan  Church
 

In the 15th century a hostel was built for catholic pilgrims from Europe, by monks belonging to a Franciscan order. From the 16th century and onwards the place has been considered the home of Josef of Arimathea mentioned in the New Testament, who had been one of Jesus disciples and the one who approached Pontius Pilate and asked for his permission to take the body of Jesus down from the cross and bury it before Shabbat begins. Following the discovery that this was the location of Joseph's house, the site was pronounced sacred to catholic Christians and a monastery was built adjacent to the church. At the end of the 19th century a new church was founded in it, with beautiful paintings, sculptures and stained glass windows, among them also an original painting of The Descent from the Cross" by the Italian renaissance painter Titian, donated by the city of Madrid in the year 1846. In the end of the 19th century the "Terra Santa" school was opened in the site, where Muslim and Christian children study together. On the second floor of the church one can see the room of Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France

Address: Bialik St

Visit only by reservations

Tel: 08-9127200, City service center - 08-9771780/79
 

Monastery of St. George and the Orthodox Church
This monastery, its foundations dated back to the 2nd century, is the religious center for residents of the orthodox Greek group. The monastery contains a beautiful church dedicated to St. George, traditionally born in the nearby city of Lod and was known as one who killed a terrible dragon threatening the city. In the monastery one can see a relief on the church's lintel and in it Saint George is riding a horse while stabs his spear in the dragon's throat. The current church was built in the 19th century

Address: Kehilat Detroit St

Visit only by reservations

Tel: 08-9221174, City service center - 08-9771780/79
 
 

The British military cemetery  

The large military cemetery is located in the industrial zone on the road from Ramla; in it lie British soldiers who fell in Israel during the two world wars and the period between them. The cemetery was built after World War I when Ramla was under the control of the Australian brigade of light cavalry. Located in the eastern part of the city, the cemetery is a well cared for area full of green grassy spaces. One can also see headstones decorated with the Magen David (the six pointed star) which testifies of the burial of Jewish soldiers. In a tour of the paths between the headstones one can see the grave of the grandson of the Baron Edmond de Rothschild as well as the grave of a soldier with the surprising name of Harry Potter

Address: Duchifat St., on the corner of Ha'Tikva St

Open 24/7

Tel: 08-9221220, City service center - 08-9771780/79

Open: Sunday – Thursday at 08.00 - 15.30

Friday at 08.00 -13.00
 

IZL Monument
When the Liberation war broke out the IZL fought and attacked, at the request of the Hagana (Jewish underground in British mandatory Palestine) headquarters, in order to break through the road to besieged Jerusalem. The IZL forces attacked Ramla several times, and among the operations were the explosion of the Lod railway station, retaliation acts and attacks of central transportation axis. During the battles at the Ramla front, 51 of IZLs fighters fell in battle. Some of them were declared as missing persons in the heat of battle, and only four years later an operation to locate the bodies and bring them to proper burial. The IZL monument, located to the north of Ramla can be found when driving from Tel Aviv beyond the railway tracks, at the sector where the battles occurred. It was built in memory of those heroes who fell in the battles of Ramla in the year 1948, their families and friends. The monument was designed by the architects Oscar and Avi Fisher, and was inaugurated on the holiday of Lag Ba'omer, on the 21st of May, 1992. The monument is designed as a three dimensional Star of David with the walls on both sides built at varying heights, creating a complex pointing towards Jerusalem

Address: Herzel St. at the entrance to Ramla coming from Tel-Aviv

Visit only by reservations

Tel: 08-9292650, City service center - 08-9771780/79
 

The Tabaja Center
The Tabaja center in Ramla for the preservation of the legacy of the Jewish community of Ethiopia was founded in the Vilna-Shabazi neighborhood in 1998, with the help of the donation from the Reicher family of the New York federation. In the year 2000 it had been decided by the Ramla municipality and the family who donated for the founding of the center to name the place after an officer of the border patrol, Commander Yossi Tabaja of blessed memory, who was shot and killed by a Palestinian policeman during a tour with Israeli soldiers. The center contains a memorial room for the preservation of the legacy of the Ethiopian Jewish community, with various exhibits reflecting the community life in Ethiopia, and preserving the memory of those who did not survive the journey to Israel. The center offers services to the residents in the field of culture and recreation, sports and enrichment for all ages, such as classes, daycare, a club for the elderly, woman art etc

Address: Vilna St

Open Sunday-Thursday at 09:00-20:00

Visit only by reservations

Tel: 08-9201962

City service center - 08-9771780/79