‘Christmas’ Articles at The ESSENTIAL guide to Israel

Celebrating Christmas 2018 in Israel? Here’s EVERYTHING you need to know…

Christmas in Israel is probably the ULTIMATE place to spend your Christmas, and we know from the traffic we get and your emails that Christmas in the Holy Lan... Read More...

Christmas in Israel: Top 10 things to see and do to feel festive in the Holy Land!

Bethlehem Christmas Tour

If you're looking for the ULTIMATE Christmas experience while in Israel, you're going to have to head to Bethlehem! We're BIG fans of Christmas (check out our c... Read More...

Get festive at the Holiday of Holidays in Haifa!

The annual Holiday of Holidays in Haifa is a very special festival of holidays, designed to cater for everybody! This year (2017) it celebrates its 24th ... Read More...

Bethlehem Tours

If a visit to Bethlehem is on your bucket list, then do we have a Bethlehem tour for you! Experience the delights of the city where Jesus was born, enter one o... Read More...

Christmas Eve in the Holy Land

Ahh, Christmas Eve is here. The chestnuts are roasting on the open fire (barbecue style with hummus on the side) and Jack Frost is nipping at my nether regions ... Read More...

The kind of Christmas adverts we love – the Bar Refaeli dressed up as Santa kind!

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli dressed up as Santa? Oh yes...now this is the kind of Christmas advert we like to see! She may have taken some flack by some I... Read More...

The ultimate Christian pitstop in the Holy Land – the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem

If you're heading for Bethlehem, you're undoubtedly going to stop at the Church of the Nativity, perhaps the ultimate destination on any Christmas visit to Isra... Read More...

The Christmas Market in Nazareth: an awesome slice of Christmas in Israel!

The now annual Christmas Market in Nazareth is a great place for those of you in need of some real Christmas spirit! We've mentioned it before (read here), but... Read More...

How and where to celebrate Christmas 2016 in Israel

Old City, Jerusalem: a Christmas Eve video

As the new year breezes in (freezin' cold that wind is - but Happy New Year!), I thought I'd create a new video of some of the pictures I took last week in the ... Read More...

The complete guide to celebrating Christmas 2015 in the Holy Land!

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