Photographs of Israel : The Great Land of God

My blog ^ | 03/13/ 2007 | drzz (returning from Israel)

[buck61]

Wonderful Pictures! Some place I would love to visit at some point of my life.



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[drzz]

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 !!

[Vinnie]

Beautiful, my mother has visited Israel, I haven't.
Bump to later show my wife.

[PGalt]

Great pictures. Thanks for posting.

[Lurking Libertarian]

I don't know a clue about Hebew.

Just remember this important phrase:

Pa-a'mayim birra, b'vakasha! ("two beers, please!").

[BibChr]

Mm; don't think we learned that one in seminary (-- and I don't recall reading it in Torah).

(c;

[Lurking Libertarian]

The Biblical word shechar, usually translated "strong drink" (e.g., I Samuel 1:15) meant "beer," but modern Israelis use "birra" (borrowed from the English word).

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[drzz]

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 !!!

[drzz]

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.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

From orbit...

[WV Mountain Mama]

Beautiful.