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Along the Gaza Border

"Is it safe to come to Israel right now?"

This is the eternal question. Almost every tourist who has ever inquired about an Israel tour with me over the last 15 years or so has asked…Read More

Wildflowers in David’s Path

As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof knoweth it no more.
But the…Read More

The Land of Wildflowers

Most tourists who have never been to Israel before think of this land as a vast desert, which was the setting of the biblical stories and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Images of the Bible and wars are what they think…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

A Walk through an Old-New Land Part II

I admit it mom, as a boy I used to ride my bike to the train station in Ridgewood, New Jersey with friends and take the train into the city and hang out in Greenwich Village and Soho in…Read More

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