04-05-2011 Jerusalem, one of the holiest places in the world, is a city located in Israel. Human settlements were found here in Bronze Age—somewhere around 3500 B.C. Evidence found that three largest religions: Judaism, Islam and Christianity here and both Israel and Palestine have claimed Jerusalem as a capital city, …
05-05-2011 Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, Memorial to the Holocaust and the Israel Museum. Shrine of the Book where the Dead Sea Scrolls are housed and the miniature model of Jerusalem as it was during the Second Temple period, Israel’s Parliament, and Hebrew University. Tel Aviv is Israel’s second …
06-05-2011 The year was 68 CE and the Romans were coming, tearing through Judea and destroying everything and everyone in their path. An isolated community of 200 Jewish, wrapping hundreds of fragile Dead Sea Scrolls or the Qumran Caves Scrolls, an ancient Jewish religious manuscript they placed them gently inside clay jars …
07-05-2011 Nazareth is renowned as the childhood home of Jesus and an important pilgrimage site of Christianity and tourists, coming to visit the Basilica of the Annunciation and also bustling mini-metropolis. Nazareth is a stone-paved street with Ottoman-era mansions, and in recent years, has been reinventing itself as a sophisticated …
Capernaum Capernaum is located on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, the Church of the Beatitudes and the Church of the Primacy of St. Peter. At the entrance to Capernaum there is a sign which reads ‘Capharnaum the town of Jesus’. Jesus was born in Bethlehem and grew …
08-05-2011 Caesarea is believed to be the site of initial religious tensions that sparked riots that eventually led to the First Jewish–Roman War (AD 66 to 70), in which the Jews rose up against – and were crushed by – the Romans (and expelled from Jerusalem). Thousands of captives were …
Haifa is a northern Israeli port city built in tiers extending from the Mediterranean up the north slope of Mount Carmel. The city’s most iconic sites are the immaculately landscaped terraces of the Bahai Gardens and, at their heart, the gold-domed Shrine of the Bab. At the foot of the …
At a place called Beit Alpha, we saw the remains of the mosaic floor of an ancient synagogue depicting the Zodiac on the way to Tel Aviv. The three mosaic panels depict traditional Jewish symbols such as a Torah ark, two menorahs (seven-branched candelabras) and a shofar (ram’s horn) alongside …
