02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Rafat Asad’s Haifa, with Footnotes, #62

Haifa is the third-largest city in Israel — after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv — with a population of 285,316 in 2019. The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area in Israel.

Over the millennia, the Haifa area has changed hands: being conquered and ruled by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Israelites, Phoenicians, Persians, Hasmoneans, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Crusaders, Ottomans, and the British. More on Haifa…

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