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Sunset at the Dead Sea and dinner in Jerusalem

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December 1st 2007
If we were to use the GPS route to get to the Dead Sea we'd have reached long past sunset. So how did we get there? 😊 By road of course. No alien intervention We arrived just before sundown. The strip was quite empty. I guess most of the tourists had long gone. The stretch was totally ours! It was a major thrill to float on the Dead sea. It's just remarkable how such a place could exis ... read more

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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