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Rosh Hanikra: The station to take the cable car down to view the sea grottoes - at the Lebanese border.

Rosh Hanikra - beautiful underground grottoes carved out by the sea and coastal views, with chalk cliffs next to the sea.

During the Second World War, the British dug a tunnel and built a bridge here in order to establish a continuous rail route from Europe to the Middle East. In the summer of 1944, Jewish refugees from the concentration camps were brought to the land that was to become Israel by trains that passed through the tunnel at Rosh Hanikra. They were exchanged for German citizens who were living on that land, whose sons served in the Nazi army. During the Israeli War of Independence in March, 1948, the Haganah blew up the bridge here in order to prevent Arab forces from using the railway route to bring volunteers and arms from Lebanon to aid their forces in Haifa. We saw the tunnel and remnants of the railway track.


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