World Wednesday: Israel
Where are we traveling too this time? Israel! So pack your bags because we are going to visit this beautiful yet unique home dubbed as the Beehive located in the beautiful neighborhood of Ramot Polin, Jerusalem. But first, we are going to go through some fast facts about Israel.
Fast Facts about Israel:
Israel is the only country today that has more trees today then it had 50 years ago
Israel has more museums then any other country
Voicemail technology was developed in Israel
Life expectancy is the highest in the world at 82 year old
Cherry tomatoes were created in Israel
Israel developed the technology for the first ever cell phone
This home was built by and envisioned by Israel Prize Winning architect Zvi Hecker. He designed the neighborhood of Ramot Polin as several pentagonal units. These were completed in the year of 1975 and he has since expanded. In total there are 175 apartments in this unit. This was supposed to look similar to the palm of an open hand with the 5 fingers being retaining walls supporting the entire slope of the hill. A similar look to these can be seen in his Synagogue in Negev.
