YOU CAN CLICK ON ANY PHOTO TO ENLARGE IT, THEN GO BACK TO THE JOURNAL OR GO THROUGH THE PHOTOS (CLICK ON THE NUMBERS AT THE TOP) IN THAT ENLARGED FORMAT. YOU CAN CLICK ON "PREVIOUS ENTRIES" AT THE TOP LEFT OF THIS BLOG PAGE AND SEE OTHER BLOG ENTRIES. Israel & Jordan, December 2009 We spent our Christmas holiday in Israel visiting friends, Ofer & Tamar Shamir, and then traveling into Jordan for some touring. The holiday was a mixture of seeing fantastic sights and being worried and sad over the health of our friends’ youngest son, 17 year-old Chen. Three years ago Chen was diagnosed with liver cancer which has metastasized, and while mostly conducting his life as a normal teenager (going to school, studying for his driver’s license, etc.), he had a set-back
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