a sabbatical in jerusalem: book 2

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A Sabbatical in Jerusalem: Book 2

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This second book continues the timeline of my three months in Israel opening with the Bedouin in theNegev Desert and concluding with a visit to Bet Shean at the end of our five days in the Galilee.

The Galilee is a place of extraordinary natural beauty in stark contrast with the dry desert regions further

south. It borders with the Lebanon and Syria; the latter border region is known as the Golan Heights thatwas annexed by Israel following the 1967 war. This territory is also home to an ethnic group known asDruze; a most hospitable people.

John Walker mscDecember 2012



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Secret photography through the back window of our coach as we passed through a check-point en route to visit the Bedouin inthe Negev Desert


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With Jared Goldfarb a Jewish archeologist, leading us into an experience of the wilderness walking in the Negev


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The modern city of Beersheva on the desert horizon


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Bedouin hospitality and initiatives using the herbs from the desert


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Tel Beer Sheba (below left), camel muster (top right), and Esther, Alejandro and Sanne on safari (bottom right)!


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Tel archeological sites: Beit Guvrin and Lachish with Swedish archeologist Tina Blomquist


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Exploring underground cisterns with Tina


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The Salesian monastery at Beit Jamal, and the chapel of the Sisters of Bethlehem overleaf


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Caesarea Maritima


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The port at Caesarea Maritima from which Paul sailed en route to Rome


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Tel Megiddo


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Welcome to Nazareth


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Distant view of modern Nazareth (above left), and the archeological site of Sepphoris


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The waters of Banias receive their flow from the southern slopes of Mt Hermon in the Golan and are the headwaters of theJordan River


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Ancient Canaanite site of Tel Dan on the border with the Lebanon


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Caesarea Philipi


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Nimrod fortress on the slopes of Mt Hermon; a Druze bride and Druze hospitality


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Mt Hermon, Golan Heights


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The ears of Israel on the Syrian border. UN housing over the border (bottom right)


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Ghada Boulos, Palestinian archeologist/anthropologist and our guide extraordinaire in the Galilee


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Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes at Tabgha (above), and Church of the Primacy (right)


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Lakeside at Tabgha


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Sailing on the Sea of Galilee


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A ritual of farewell: scattering moms ashes on the sea to calm stormy waters


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Approaching Mt Tabor that many Christian traditions hold is the site of the Transfiguration (Mt Hermon is another site)


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The Jezreel Valley from Mt Tabour


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From the bus cloud formations over the fertile Jordan Valley


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The ancient city of Bet Shean an-Scythropolis and Tel Bet Shean


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