On Wednesday we drove in a north-easterly direction which climbed east of the Carmel range and across the Armageddon Plain. Armageddon is mentioned in the Book of Revelation and has an apocalyptic connotation but the Hebrew words mean simply Strong Mountain. Being at a strategic point on many ancient trade routes, this area has seen …
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Israel, Days 6 and &7: Tel Aviv and the Coast
On Monday (April 28) we left Jerusalem by taxi and in a little over an hour we were in our hotel on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Tel Aviv. We did little more that day than take in our new surroundings which, it soon became obvious, were quite different from those we had left in …
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Israel Day 5; The Old City revisited
Today (Sunday) we had no tour commitments today left for our walking tour of the Old City about 10am. Our first stop was at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher where we hoped to get into the chapel built over the site of Jesus’ tomb. The crowds had thwarted us a few days ago and …
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Israel, Days 3 and 4; Bethlehem and Jericho
On our third day we took a half day trip to nearby Bethlehem. For this we had to cross into the Palestinian controlled sector of the West Bank and our Israeli driver had to be supplemented by a Palestinian guide once we crossed the checkpoint. Our driver told us that he is issued a special …
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Israel, Day 2: Massada and the Dead Sea
On our second day in Israel we took a full day tour to Massada, a Roman fortress of immense importance to the Jews on a mountain overlooking the Dead Sea. Jerusalem is at an elevation of about 2500 feet above (Mediterranean) sea level but our initial destination today was the lowest place on earth – …
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Israel Day 1; The Church of the Holy Sepulcher and Stations of the Cross
On our first full day in Jerusalem we walked the 15 minutes or so from our hotel to the Jaffa Gate, one of several entrances to the Old City. Old Jerusalem (walled in the Middle Ages – at least in this form) is divided into several Quarters and we entered at the edge of the …
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