Temple Beth El at Masada

Day 8-The Dead Sea

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February 19th 2009
We were back at full strength today for an exciting and active outdoors day. It looks like we stayed one day ahead of the weather with a strom front expected on Friday. We got lucky, because if there are heavy rains on Friday, there could be a chance of fast floods in the Dead Sea area we went to today. We left Jerusalem in the morning and headed into the desert. This was a new environment f ... read more

Middle East » Israel » South District » Masada

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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