Jaffa Port

All the information about Jaffa Port 🎧 There's also a great podcast about the historic Jaffa Port! Listen >> The old historical buildings of the Jaffa Port were renovated and renewed, and today they serve as businesses from the fields of culinary arts, commerce, and entertainment. At the site there are cultural and music shows, fashion events, outdoor events, activities for children, and exhibitions. Alongside all of these, fishing activity continues to take place at the site as well—you can see the fishermen in action, the fishing boats, the fishing poles, and the nets while strolling around the port. A sea voyage can sound like a magical vacation—unless you are the first and last immigrant ship that managed to leave Russia for Israel. Join us for a fun trip with a view of the sea to the Jaffa Port, where a refugee ship's story will be told—one ship that shaped the face of the culture world of young Israel, to the point that some call it "the Israeli Mayflower." Listen to an exciting episode about the immigrant ship 'Ruslan', which docked off the coasts of Jaffa in 1919 and effectively opened the period of the Third Aliyah! Waze point: Jaffa Port Parking Lot (and from there an easy walk south (left) toward Mdrone Park | Route: 2 km easy | Estimated time: two to three hours, or more if you stay for a picnic or playground | Fee: none (only Pango) | Recommended season: spring, summer—at sunset, autumn