FREEMASONRY IN ISRAEL
Freemasonry in Israel
The Grand Lodge of the State of Israel was consecrated on October 20, 1953 at the Y.M.C.A. Hall in Jerusalem.
The first Masonic Lodge in the Holy Land was the Royal Solomon Mother Lodge No. 293, under the Grand Lodge of Canada in Ontario, whose first meeting was held in the King Solomon’s Quarries of Jerusalem on May 7, 1873.
Before that, an occasional assembly of Masons performed a Secret Monitor ceremony in the same location on May 13, 1868.
The Jubilee celebration took place on October 20, 2003 in Tel Aviv.
The Grand Lodge of the State of Israel:
Freemasonry-israel.org.il – English
Freemasonry.org.il – Hebrew
English speaking Craft Masonry in Israel:
Holy City Lodge № 4, Jerusalem
Sharon Star of Israel Lodge № 7, Raanana
Har HaCarmel (Mount Carmel) Lodge No. 44, Haifa – MountCarmel44.org
Ha’aretz Hakdosha – Lodge of the Holy Land #50, Tel Aviv – International Membership
Ganei-Netanya (Gardens of Netanya) Lodge No 67, Netanya
Raanana Lodge № 70, Raanana
Montefiore Lodge #78, an Installed Masters Lodge of the Grand Lodge of The State of Israel
Houdini Lodge, No 83, Tel Aviv – Houdini83.com
Full list of Lodges in Israel.
The Royal Arch Chapter in Israel:
The Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the State of Israel (rac-israel.org.il)
The Scottish Rite in Israel:
Other:
Freemasonry in Israel – Mastermason.com/fmisrael
Jewish and Arab Masons in the Holy Land: www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/zeldis12.html
History is made as we Twin with Lodge Bilu 33 – Rosslyn St Clair 606 (rosslynmasonic606.co.uk)
Books:
Jews And Freemasons In Europe 1723-1939, by Jacob Katz. Harvard University Press 1970.
The Jews and Masonry in the United States before 1810, by Samuel Oppenheim. 1910.
The evidences of Freemasonry from ancient Hebrew records, in three lectures on the three degrees, and a brief introduction on the history and traditions of masonry, by Rabbi Bro. Joseph Hayyim Mendes Chumaceiro
Freemasonry in the Holy Land; or, Handmarks of Hiram’s builders; embracing notes made during a series of masonic researches, in 1868, in Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Europe, and the results of much correspondence with freemasons in those countries, by Bro. Robert Morris