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Tel Aviv - white town

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                                                    @prognosemaker Tel Aviv was founded by Jewish community in 1909. It is one of the main cities in the country located in the western part. Sometimes it is called as Tel Aviv – Jaffa. Town consist of two parts : a few thousand years of history dating Old town called Jaffa and new town – Tel Aviv. It is claimed that Tel Aviv is Israels luxurious city, financial, commercial and entertainments capital. As I mentioned before hotel prices are high. For the budget travelers I would advise to stay in the apartments hotel. As one of them I would recommend 130 Rock apartments http://www.booking.com/hotel/il/rockapartments.lt.html Hotel is located in Dizenhoff street. It is planty of tourist attraction in Tel Aviv. For exemple : antique oriental Carmel market, there are 18 visual arts centers. Visites ...

Israel - the country that does not celebrate Christmas

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                                  Tel Aviv @prognosemaker January 11 was reported that Ariel Sharon is dead. For some time I wanted to write an article about Israel ; the death of this man pushed me to do so. At the end of last year two people have traveled to Israel . The trip was impromptus, just once again occurred good offer from Wizzair (please not get the false impression; we are not a travel maniacs or going mad). The company operates direct flights from Vilnius . They are flying to Israel from other European cities too. Of course we had to find an accommodation. And it was not so easy. First of all, I was surprised by hotels rates. They are comparable to the prices in Norway ! As the plane landing in the largest Israeli airport, Ben Gurion, it was necessary to decide where we should live: in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem . The airport is located between these two cities, but Tel Av...

The first Lithuanian satellites were lunched into the space

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                                                                                                 @technologijos After several times takeoff was delayed, today rocket Antares rosed to the sky. „Orbital Sciences“ Corporation has begun its first commercial re – supply mission to the International Space Station. The spacecraft “Cygnus” will carry 1,2 tons of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS). Weighing 400 kg loads consist of scientific equipment and experiments. Among them – live ants, various bacteria and another 2 kilograms – the first Lithuanian satellites “Lit Sat – 1” and “Lituanica Sat – 1” . Their authors are from Kaunas University of technology and Vilnius University . The next part of the load consists of...