(Jerusalem Post) Rachel Bernstein - While Israel left the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on January 1 over its anti-Israel bias, it remains a cosignatory to the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage of 1972. UNESCO has approved World Heritage status for sites in Israel including Masada, the Old City of Acre, Tel Aviv, the biblical tels of Megiddo, Hatzor and Beersheba, the Incense Route of the Negev's desert cities, the Baha'i Holy Places in Haifa and in the Western Galilee, Nahal Me'arot and Wadi el-Mughara caves, the caves of Maresha and Beit Guvrin in the Judean lowlands, and the necropolis at Beit She'arim. Israel still has a long wish list of sites it hopes would gain UNESCO approval. They include the triple-arch gate at Dan, the early synagogues of the Galilee, Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee) and its flanking ancient sites, Khirbat al-Minya, Arbel, Deganya and Nahalal, Beit She'an, Caesarea, the White Mosque in Ramle, the craters in the Negev Desert, Mount Karkom, Timna Valley, Crusader fortresses, the Great Rift Valley including the Hula area, Lifta and Ein Kerem.
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