Man walking towards Ha Kotel

The Golan Heights, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv

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June 7th 2008
I've spent the last week doing plenty of sightseeing in Israel. On Sunday, Ortal (a friend of Yuda's) took us to the Golan Heights. ...you may have heard of it because it is an area (orignially of Syria) that has been occupied by Israel since the Six Day War in 1967. It is a plateau in the northeast of Israel, bordering of Lebanon, Jordan and Syria (and from a distance I saw each of these cou ... read more

Middle East » Israel

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Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs. Subsequently, the Israelis defeated the Arabs in a series of wars without... ... read more