Tel Aviv is a shopper’s paradise with a large number of shopping malls. Here are the details on a few of them. See also our Guide to Tel Aviv Shopping. Ramat Aviv Mall Ramat Aviv Mall is one of the most expensive shopping malls in Israel and is currently the 35th most … Read more
The popular Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem has a new exhibition running – Sound of the Shofar. About the Shofar The Shofar (Ram’s Horn) is one of the most dramatic, inspiring and poignant of Jewish religious items in the annual cycle. It’s origins go back to the Binding of Isaac by Abraham … Read more
Here in Israel, you still can find long and winding road. The Seven Sisters Road was built during the time of the British Mandate of Palestine (1920-1948). The Seven Sisters Road takes you to A Quiet Corner in Motza. There are supposed to be seven sharp bends in the road that that is … Read more
Shopping in Tel Aviv Tel Aviv offers the most diversified variety of shopping opportunities, from the trendy, luxurious malls with the top international brands to the flea and food open markets that will provide you with oriental tastes and smells. Read on for our guide to Tel Aviv Shopping from Malls to … Read more
Sitting on a spur of a hill overlooking Tabgha and Capernaum, the Mount of the Beatitudes is revered as the site where according to Christian tradition Jesus delivered the “Sermon on the Mount” (Mathew 5:1-35). The Mount of the Beatitudes is also revered as where Jesus chose twelve of his disciples as … Read more
Unflatteringly, the first chapter of John asks “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Still in many respects, Christianity began in Nazareth. It is revered as the site of the Annunciation and the place where Jesus spent most of his childhood. As a young man he was expelled from the synagogue for … Read more
The Via Dolorosa in the Old City of Jerusalem is the most important street, or more aptly route, in the world for most of Christendom. It is revered in most Christian traditions as the route which Jesus carried the cross from the Praetorium, where he was condemned to Golgotha or Calvary, with … Read more
Netanya Netanya lies a few kilometers to the north of the Tel Aviv metropolis on the coast, and a few kilometers south of Haifa. It is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. Netanya may not be as large or as crowded as nearby Tel Aviv — and that may be a … Read more
Tabgha is an area located on the north-western shore of the Sea of Galilee. It is traditionally accepted by the Christian faithful as the site of the “multiplication of the fish and the loaves” in Mathew 14:13-21 and Mark 6:30-46, also referred to as the feeding of the multitudes. It is the … Read more
For a period of about 400 years that ended in the First World War, the whole of the Middle East was occupied under the rule of the Ottoman Empire based out of Istanbul. Israel’s landscape still holds many reminders of those times. One of the nicest places is the Jaffa train station … Read more