June 2018 Israel Tour. Safed is a small town/city in the Northern District of Israel, 2952 feet above sea level in the mountains of the Upper Galilee, it commands magnificent views east to the Glan, north to the Hermon and Lebanon, west to Mt. Meron and the Amud Valley, and south to Tiberias and Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). The City has remained a center of Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism.