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The Israeli Bible Museum is located in the center of Safed on the north side of a hill; it is housed in a building that has been built at the second half of the nineteenth century to be used as the residence of a Turkish Pasha. The Israeli Bible Museum also has works of the world famous artist Phillip Ratner and in the beginning of the eighties it was he who had set the museum with a large collection of works. The bible museum also has a large number of paintings and sculpture from the renowned painter and sculptor Enrico Glicenstein. The entire project was funded by a person known as Dennis Ratner who presently serves as the President of the museum. In today’s date the Israeli Bible Museum in Safed has more than three hundred visual scenes of the Holy Bible and there is a working studio of the artist that is attracting visitors from far and wide and it has slowly but surely graduated into a major tourist attractions. The museum has an open door policy and they have thrown open the doors of the museum to the non Jewish people as well. The Israeli Bible Museum in Safed enjoys a large support from the local populace and that support has prompted them to keep the museum open for eleven months in a year. The Israeli Bible Museum in Safed is a heaven for people who have a deep interest in art, culture, mysticism, Bible, religion and the heritage of the Jewish people. The best part of the Israeli Bible Museum in Safed is that there are no entrance fees and this move has gone a long way to encourage students, families and immigrants to come in huge numbers. So if you have a profound love for your religion then the Israeli Bible Museum is the place in Israel to go.
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