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Thursday is House Demolition Day in the Jordan Valley – #1 Molehed Families
We start out each week with a carefully thought out plan. And within the space of hours, the plan seems to change as urgent calls come in to support Palestinian villages under attack. Such was the case this Thursday, June … Continue reading
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Tagged Demolition, Israeli Civil Authority, Israeli military
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Around the Sea of Galilee – Visit Six: The Golan Heights
Up, up, up we went, climbing ever higher from below sea level to the heights of the Golan overlooking the Sea of Galilee, Jordan and Syria. We drove up to an abandoned Israeli bunker for a bird’s eye view of … Continue reading
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Tagged Golan Heights, Israel, Jezreel Valley railway, sea of galilee
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Around the Sea of Galilee – Visit Five: The Jordan River
My next stop on this journey of holy places was the Jordan River which flows into the Sea of Galilee in the north. My driver Kamal told me that water levels in the Sea have risen three metres this year, … Continue reading
Around the Sea of Galiliee – First Visit: Church of the Beatitudes
On Saturday, May 18, I travelled north of Tiberias and then around the Sea of Galilee, some 21 km long and 9 km wide, lying over 200 m below seal level. On this day, I visited a number of the … Continue reading
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Tagged church of the beatitudes, Holy Land, Jesus, Matthew 5, sea of galilee, Tabgha
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