Red Sea resort city famous for coral reefs and for year-round sunshine, attracting divers and sun-seekers from all over the world.

Eilat stone is only found in the King Solomon's copper mines on the Red Sea, Israel. It is an opaque green mineral composed of azurite, malachite, turquoise and chrysocolla

Eilat (Hebrew , Standard Hebrew Elat, Eylat), pop. 46,000, is Israel's southernmost city (located at ), in the Southern District of Israel. Adjacent to the Egyptian city of Taba and Jordanian port city of Aqaba, Eilat is located at the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba, which is the eastern sleeve of the Red Sea (the western leading to the Suez Canal). Eilat is named after the Biblical Elath, which now corresponds to modern neighboring Aqaba.