Tefen - An Industrial park that surprises!

Tefen is an unusual style of "industrial park", one that is a showcase for high technology, it blends a combination of modern art, museum and working businesses. Some very high tech items are made here, as well as more traditional ones.

Our main interest was to find the glass manufacturer and see if we could afford any of the pieces on sale - fortunately they had a "seconds" section with beautiful work and we bought some of a special reminder of our stay in Israel

For example, Gamila producessoaps and candles and lovely perfumes from olives - and employs many Arab women as a result.
There are 3 museums - ironically a vintage car museum featuring the only Israeli sports car, a lithograph museum and one dedicated to machine tool production. There is an amazing museum highlighting the contribution of German Jews to the world - including many Nobel Peace Prize winners, and men and women who made contributions in science, the arts, politics, literature and so on.

We start by featuring some of the more than 40 original art pieces that are found throughout the estate. This one is a tower that is not just for kids.


Not sure how to describe this piece - but you can spend a long time looking at it.
No doubt meaningful, I cannot recall the name.

This one is very clever.
See, I really was there.

The lithographer Hermann Struck was a local Haifa boy and his house still stands. He was a master calligrpher and here are just two pieces.


Muna loved the car museum and especialy loved the use of colour on these cars - she is death on white and silver, the two most common colours.
The 1964 Sabra was not such a big hit overseas!


A walk around a few more pieces of artwork
and then off to find a French restaurant in a little village, quite literally in the middle of nowhere - but lots of other patrons also found it.