Israel aquarium, Jerusalem, Israel

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Standing: High
Rank: Rank 300 of 2,073

Reviewed by Elena Voss · Roavina Travel Editor

About Israel aquarium

The Gottesman Family Israel Aquarium is a public aquarium in Jerusalem that opened on 19 June 2017. It focuses on Israel's marine environments: the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea. The aquarium was built by the Tisch Family Zoological Gardens, the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, and stands next to it on the zoo's expansion land. It was designed by architect Lenny Raviv of Raviv Tal Architects together with zoo staff and international experts, and cost about 100 million shekels, funded by the Gottesman Family of New York, other donors, the Jerusalem Municipality and the Ministry of Tourism. The building covers 6,500 square metres.

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What's inside

The visit starts in an entrance hall with a schooling display of hundreds of fish. The Four Seas of Israel gallery presents the Sea of Galilee, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, followed by an exhibit of the rocky and sandy Mediterranean shore. In the Discovery Gallery visitors can feed common stingrays in an open pool surrounded by seahorses, stonefish, frogfish and ribbon eels. The Mediterranean Sea Gallery has a large tank with an underwater viewing tunnel. A short film on the Suez Canal explains species migration between the seas, and the Red Sea galleries show hundreds of clownfish, living corals, jellyfish and an Eilat coral reef with zebra sharks. A large shell collection closes the route.

Checked 2026-11-05 · Source