Green hills and fields of Lower Galilee

'And Then Jordan Went Up into the Galilee...'

August 12th 2010
Apologies to everyone for the radio silence the last little while! Things have been crazy during the week, and I've been out of town the last two weekends. The weekend before last I visited hilariously tenuously linked "family friends" in Ashdod for the Shabbat, and had a wonderful, wonderful time. The Seters live on a moshav (self-contained farming community, formerly collectivized) just outsi ... read more

Middle East » Israel » North District » Tiberias

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

12th August 2010

Devon
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Incredible pictures but what heat
Those pictures are gorgeous! I particularly like the ones of the Sea of Galilee through the palm trees. It looks like a very beautiful area, and the old city of Tiberias looks lovely. It must have been very neat to walk through the ruins at Capernaum and to see where things described in the gospels happened.

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