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Chasing Lenscapes
Let’s start from one of the most well-known luxury hotels in Israel – The Efendi Hotel. This is another project of Uri Jeremias from Uri Buri restaurant. Uri bought two old decaying buildings in 2001 and decided to renovate them and turn them into one of the best boutique hotels in Israel.

SUITCASE Magazine
I defy even the most hardened of hearts not to burst with wonderment as Akko spills into view from the train ferrying arrivals along the coastline. Turquoise domes and copper minarets rise from behind the storied walls of the Old City, while orderly rows of palms line up against the cerulean horizon.

Departures
Set in the ancient northern town of Acre, an hour's drive from Tel Aviv, and crafted from a pair of Ottoman-era palaces, the 12-suite Efendi (owned by chef Uri Jeremias) is layered in history and nobility - it's among the most complex private restoiration projects ever overseen by Israel's ultra-strict Antiquities Authority.

Time Out Israel
Sometimes, what you really need is to escape the daily grind, get out of town, lay low for a day or two, ans soak in some extra special couple time. .Luckily, Israel has romantic places to stay in spades. Here are .five spots to make you feel extra lovey dovey,one of them is Boutique hotel efendi akko

The Media Line
The Galilee is a locavore’s paradise, a lush, green region flanked by the Mediterranean Sea and basalt hills in which, according to Abbie Rosner, the author of Breaking Bread in Galilee, until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the local population “farmed pretty much exactly the way it was described in the Bible.”

הארץ
עד לא מזמן לוו נסיעות לעכו בתהייה "מה איבדתם שם"? ובהמלצה לאכול חומוס אצל סעיד. עכו היתה בירת הממלכה הצלבנית ויעד אטרקטיבי לאורך ההיסטוריה, נכבשה, ננטשה ושוב אוכלסה, אבל עם הקמת המדינה היא הפכה ללא יותר מעיירת פיתוח עם עיר עתיקה חצי אטרקטיבית ופסטיבל לתיאטרון אחר שמביא קהל חוץ פעם בשנה. כך עברו שנים ועכו עמדה בצד, מביטה איך חיפה מתרוממת ומתפתחת בעוד היא נשארת הגרסה הצפונית והחיוורת של יפו.

Condé Nast Traveler
The specs: A pair of nineteenth-century homes in the middle of an Arab village—and ancient port town—on the Mediterranean, a two-hour drive from Tel Aviv. Along with 12 guest rooms, the hotel has a hammam (built by the original Turkish owners), a wine cellar and occasional restaurant, and a rooftop sundeck.

N' A Perfect World
Israel is a new nation, built on very ancient land that so many people in this world lay claim to as their own, their history. There are some newer cities like Tel Aviv, where the architecture dates to the 20th century and others like it’s neighbor Jaffa, an ancient port city that leaves your mind reeling when you think of the people that have walked these streets for centuries. An intrinsic part of visiting Israel is seeing this duality.

ARTE
Voyage savoureux en Israël, formidable creuset de cultures gastronomiques. À Akko, l’ancien Saint-Jean-d’Acre, Uri Buri excelle dans la préparation des poissons. Quarante kilomètres plus au nord, Erez Komarovsky, père de la "nouvelle cuisine" en Israël, a su intégrer des saveurs venues de France, du Japon et de Californie. On découvre aussi le secret d’une bonne pita.

Bon Appétit
One pomegranate-braised lamb shoulder at a time, Zahav chef Michael Solomonov is putting modern Israeli cooking on the map in Philadelphia (and America). So when he travels to Israel a couple times a year, he does so with food squarely on the mind. This takes him to Acre, a coastal city 90 minutes north of Tel Aviv, where he pays his respects to Uri Jeremias: a legendary fisherman, bon vivant, and owner of the decidedly non-kosher seafood restaurant Uri Buri.

HuffPost
"There is no such thing as Israeli cuisine," said Chef Roy Sofer at the hip Italian Bindela Restaurant in Tel Aviv. Over the next ten days, every person I spoke to in Israel gave me a similar answer. Just like the U.S., Israel is a melting pot of cultures and cuisines. Everyone here is from someplace else, and they have brought along traditional ingredients, spices and cooking methods that have become part of the new Israeli gastronomy.