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Lag b’ Omer

Lag b’ Omer can be a confusing holiday to those Jews and gentiles who live abroad and come to visit Israel during this time. A walk through any neighborhood will see children piling high stacks of wood scavenged from…Read More

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

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

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