Our tour guide Dalia, who grew up in a kabutz, began our tour on top of the Mount of Olives. What a sight! The whole city of Jerusalem faced us. Closest to us were huge cemeteries completely covered with graves of Jews going back many generations. We could see many significant landmarks including the Dome of the Rock (the 3rd holiest site of the Islam faith), built on top of King Herod's Temple. The walls of the old city we see now were built by the Ottoman Empire. Other sites pointed out, but which we did not visit, included the high priest Caiphas' house (where Peter denied Jesus 3 times), a church located where Jesus celebrated the Last Supper in the upper room with his disciples, the general location of Pontius Pilate's headquarters and the Mercy
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