Checkpoint on the way to Ramallah

Long holidays and a lot of traveling and sightseeing - part 1

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October 22nd 2010
Time is flying… I haven’t written for a long time and therefore I’ll write about my traveling in two separate entries (otherwise you’ll fall asleep or get bored 😊). The ulpan (language course) ended towards the end of September and was followed by a three week long very nice break. Compared to the beginning of the ulpan, when basically every word that came to me was in Hungarian (a ... read more

Middle East » Israel » Jerusalem District » Jerusalem

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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