It takes only one look at the lovely seashore that adjoins the city of Haifa to appreciate what the Torah scholar Rabbi Ishtori Haparchi suggested might be the source for its name. “HofYafeh” is Hebrew for "beautiful coast" and Haifa may well be a combination of those two words.

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