Touring Israel Blog

Church of St. Anne

More often than not, while wandering around the Old City of Jerusalem, eavesdropping on some of the tour guides, you can observe that some guides pronounce certain sites and places as being the place where "so and so" did…Read More

Mt. Gilboa

"Thy beauty, O Israel, upon thy high places is slain! How are the mighty fallen!" II Samuel 1:19.

There are a few passages in the Bible that can be quoted (and misquoted) by almost everyone because…Read More

Battle for the Golan Heights

Between 1948 and 1967 the Syrian military sat atop the Golan Heights and on the shores of the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), looking down at Israel in the valley below. In 1964, the Syrians…Read More

Hiking the Negev Desert

Hiking in Israel isn’t just for nature lovers. I actually got into hiking during my first visit to Israel, but when I went back, however briefly, to the United States and hiked there, it just wasn’t the same. Don’t…Read More

The Royal Tombs of Jerusalem

There is no other place in the world like Jerusalem. A tourist I was guiding once told me that while he was touring Jerusalem and Israel, his brother toured Rome and Italy. When they got together after their respective…Read More

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