The Promised Land. Tel Aviv beach with the Mediterranean Sea. Posted on 03/13/2007 11:59:16 AM PDT by drzz
The Promised Land. Tel Aviv beach with the Mediterranean Sea.
The Golden city of God : Jerusalem. View from the Mount of Olives.
The sound of the shofar is raising from the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
The legendary Dead Sea. Tradition claims Sodom and Gomorrah, the two cities of the Sin, laid behind. Gen Pace next favourite place !! Mine also !
Israeli chicks dressed like FBI agents for Purim (Carnival)
Fish, israeli bread and israeli salad at the Old port of Jaffa, near Tel Aviv.
Israeli main port of Haifa, in the north. You can see the coast of Lebanon on the upper left of the photo. Haifa received Katioucha rockets last summer.
IDF soldiers in Tel Aviv
Another photograph of the Dead Sea area near Qumran, where the Qumran Scrolls were found. Jordan is on the opposite.
Stay, more to come...
Lovely. Thanks.
thanks for the photos
I meant Sodom and Ghommora are under the Dead Sea... Yep you understood, yep I'm not English speaking, yep I just returned from a country where I couldn't understand one word nor read any sign.
God's language is pretty hard.
Except : "barura yaffa" which means "beautiful girl !!" in Hebrew
Wonderful Pictures! Some place I would love to visit. Who's the bathing beauty? ;-)
Thank you for sharing! I look forward to seeing more!
Beautiful pictures- thanks for sharing!
Just beautiful. All of the Mediterranean is paradise. The pictures remind me of my year in Crete. Thank you for posting those wonderful images.
Nazareth. The church of the Annunciation, when the Angel came to Mary. 
The stone on which Jesus laid when he was brought down from the cross. Hispanic pilgrims were especially moved by the holy stone and many cried. Pretty moving for Christians. I'm touching the stone on the photo. 
King George V Monastery in the Juda desert. In an amazingly biblical landscape. 
Jerusalem, the "via dolorosa", the way of the cross when Jesus went through the city to face death. The guy on the photo with the cross was preparing the holy demonstration, each Friday, led by the Franciscan.
More to come...
Nice job!
If you want the descriptions to come out underneath then add 'br' enclosed in left and right brackets "<" and ">" under or after each photo.
I should add that you need to use 'br' after each line you type also.
Thanx, but I find the line on the right good.
We are right-whingers bro !!!
"We are right-whingers bro !!!"
LOL!
ping
The Dom of the Rocks. According to the muslims, it is the area where Muhammad raise to Heaven. According to historians, Muhammad was dead before the muslim armies entered Jerusalem. But muslims need a pretext to steal the Mount of the Temple from the Jews. 
Fruits market in Jericho (Palestinian territories) 
The Western Wall, the Holiest site for the Jews and, frankly, the most moving place in Israel, even for non-jews (as me). 
Holy Mary's tomb in Jerusalem. 
Souks (markets) in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem Old City 
The place where Jesus was born, in the Nativity Church (Palestinian territories). This *çç%*%*%* terrorists-cowards hid in the church and fought the IDF in 2002. Fortunately, it is still a great place to visit. 
The Juda desert Heights, and the way to King George V Monastery 
Nazareth fields, where Jesus grew up. A british buisness man decided to create the "Nazareth village" in the middle of the city. This reenactment of the Jesus times is great. A lot of Americans were visiting at the time I was.
More to come...
Thank you very much for sharing!
ping
My pleasure !
If you want to see/learn more about the Holy Land, check this site: http://www.followtherabbi.com/Brix?pageID=1474
My Bible study group has done many of the videos they offer, and in addition to outstanding teachings from the Bible, they have some of the best on site filming in the area that I've seen. Not just Israel, but they got on location in many arab nations to do their videos.
If anyone knows a similar or superior series, please share!
Beautiful. Wish I could visit. BTW, re those IDF soldiers, I'll take one of each, thank you. (LOL!)
Jericho (Palestinian territories). To the Monastery of the Temptation (in the moutains, on the center) where Jesus stayed 40 days resisting to the devil's influence. You are not dreaming. Arab investisors gave millions to this tourists attractions where neighbours are extremly poor. Hypocrisy at it best. 
Burning candles in the Holy Sepulchre (Jesus tomb) in Jerusalem in support of America and the War on Terror 
The wall of the city of David, in Jerusalem Old City 
The photographs is bad, but I kept it for three reasons : 1) it is in Nazareth, and the seller is an Arab-Israeli citizen. 2) Debates rages in Israel about the loyalty of the muslims-faithful followers and Israeli Arabs 3) the seller, who strangely looks like the hamas leader (!!!) was selling books gloryfying Cheikh Yassin and calling for the murders of Jews and Americans
Tsahal soldiers. In Israel, girls have to go to the army 2 years, and then one month every year in reserve. 
Qumran (where the scrolls were found) landscape. View of the Dead Sea 
Barmistva (Jewish baptem) at the Western Wall (also named Wall of Tears) 
Gethsemane Garden, where Jesus was arrested. The Olive trees are there for thousands of years and have witnessed Jesus arrival and arrest.
I will open a second thread for my photographs of the Palestinian territories.
I was able to get into Ramallah, one of the epicenter of modern terrorism. Photos are coming.
Bookmark. Great photos! Glad you figured out how to get them online.
Beautiful people, beautiful pictures...thank you
Thanks to all.
Less enjoying are the present photos I'm posting about the Palestinian territories and the crazy city of Ramallah, one of the epicenter of modern terrorism.
"barura yaffa" which means "beautiful girl !!" in Hebrew
It's "bakhura". Sorry. Very strong "kh" may be mistaken for "rrrrr".
I just know the prunonciation !! It is phonetic. I don't know a clue about Hebew.
Thanks bro.
Your pictures are unbelievably beautiful.
Thanks for sharing.
"The stone on which Jesus laid when he was brought down from the cross. "
I have two of these at the house.
To my taste, Hebrew sounds very yummie, while Arabic is yukkie. But this is IMHO. Other people may think otherwise. Thanks again for the pictures and your kind words of Israel.
That monastery is fabulous!! Where exactly is it?
Wha???
You were in jericho? Were you afraid? There was an uprising when we were in Israel and couldn't go there...glad.
Wonderful Pictures! Some place I would love to visit at some point of my life.
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It is in the desert of Juda, near Jericho but on Israeli side.
It is gorgeous. And to get there you have to walk down the rocky hills. Biblical experience.
You can even made your way to the monastery by dunkeys, as you can see on the photo.
You can find it in all the guides about Israel. What is funny while driving there is to meet beduins, who live with camels and continue to fight their enemies with the sword (!!!) in the XXIst century. It seems the Industrial Revolution never reached them !!
Beautiful, my mother has visited Israel, I haven't.
Bump to later show my wife.
Great pictures. Thanks for posting.
Just remember this important phrase:
Pa-a'mayim birra, b'vakasha! ("two beers, please!").
Mm; don't think we learned that one in seminary (-- and I don't recall reading it in Torah).
(c;
BTTT
I was not afraid because Jericho is more touristic. I have seen Americans returning from the Golan Heights and visiting the Temptation Monastery.
The place is safe. However, many bus tours don't stop in the city. I did. A palestinian policeman arrested my palestinian driver to impress me. He wanted to see the papers of my driver.
Actually, as my driver told me, Palestinians have no right to stop an israeli car (my driver was Palestinian working in East Jerusalem), and the palestinian policeman couldn't even read the papers because it was in Hebrew !!!
I was not afraid in Jericho. In Ramallah a little bit more. In Israel, I have never been, even when children exploded fireworks in the middle of the road during Purim (Carnival). The place is safe, and absolutely worthwile seeing !!!
Old Jaffa port at night 
Plantations in Jericho (Palestinian territories) 
Tel Aviv beaches. The contrast between Tel Aviv (The New York of the Middle East) and Jerusalem is breathtaking. 
The Avenue of the "Rightous among the Nations" in the great museum of the Holocaust at Yad Vashem. I took a photograph of the tree of Oskar Schindler (Spielberg's movie), the german buisnessman who saved 1'100 jews during WWII. For info, the tree is number "14", at the beginning of the museum. 
The moving monument at Yad Vashem dedicated to the jewish children massacred by the Nazis 
The Mount of Olives, with the Church of all Nations (left) and the russian church dedicated to Magdalena 
The Old City of Jerusalem, the Dom of the Rocks and below the Western Wall (Wall of Tears). The archeological works which make the headlines those days are located at the right of the wooden ramp leading to the Mount of Temple.
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