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Walking Israel…More than a Pilgrimage
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
Augustine of Hippo
Walking to Joppa from Tel Aviv
Day 1: Tel Aviv & Jaffa (Joppa)
The port of Joppa
Day 1: Tel Aviv & Jaffa (Joppa)
Jon telling the Jonah story in Joppa
Where we stopped to tell the story of Peter’s vision of Gentile acceptance
Day 1: Tel Aviv & Jaffa (Joppa)
DAY 2 – CAESAREA/MT CARMEL/NAZARETH• Caesarea Walk – 3 miles• Druze lunch – Mount Carmel• Elijah site - Mount Carmel• Arrive Nazareth – 2 nights
Day 2: Caesarea
Byzantine-era aqueduct – start point of walk to Caesarea
Double documentation by Roger and Jana
Day 2: Caesarea
Day 2: Caesarea
Day 2: Caesarea
Ran setting the historical context of Caesarea
Roman-era aqueduct broken by the sea
Day 2: Caesarea
Day 2: Caesarea
Walking along the Mediterranean through the rubble of the aqueduct
Day 2: Caesarea
Byzantine-era hippodrome (chariot race
track)
Day 2: Caesarea
Jon sharing in the Herodian theater
Day 2: Caesarea
Leaving the theater and Caesarea
Plains of Jezreel from Mukraka Monastery – where Elijah dueled the prophets of Baal
Day 2: Mount Carmel
Day 2: Mount Carmel
Barbara teaching on Elijah’s duel with prophets of Baal
Day 2: Nazareth
Our 19th century Arab inn in Nazareth
DAY 3 – FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS• Tsipori – birthplace of Mary• Walk to Cana – 6 miles• Visit Nazareth Village
Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Ran giving the Tsipori overview
Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Jewish synagogue in Tsipori from late 5th/early 6th century AD
Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Mosaic Mona Lisa of Galilee - Tsipori
Walking through the cisterns – Tsipori
water supply
Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Footsteps of Jesus walk to Cana
Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Pause for Ran’s commentary – Walking to Cana
Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Ancient occupation…still alive and well
Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Muslim village of Ma’shad
Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Muslim cemetery
Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Walking through Ma’shad
Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Ran introducing us to Cana, across the valley
Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Gary’s ready for last push of the walk into
Cana
Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Mixing with the locals in valley between Ma’shad and Cana
Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Franciscan church commemorating the
Water into Wine miracle
DAY 4 –SEA OF GALILEE• Mount Arbel• Jesus Boat Museum • Mount of Beatitudes Walk to Capernaum –
3 miles• Sea of Galilee cruise• Arrive Sea of Galilee hotel – 2 nights
Day 4: Nazareth to Sea of Galilee
Getting luggage to the coach - Nazareth
Overlooking the Sea of Galilee from Mount Arbel
Day 4: Mount Arbel
Day 4: Mount Arbel
Mount Arbel
Day 4: The Jesus Boat
2000-year-old “Jesus Boat”
Day 4: Mount of Beatitudes
Possible site of Jesus’ teaching the Sermon on the
Mount
Day 4: Mount of Beatitudes
Mount of Beatitudes to Capernaum Walk
Day 4: Mount of Beatitudes
Walking towards the Sea of Galilee
Day 4: Mount of Beatitudes
Kent sharing about the Sermon on the Mount – Mount of Beatitudes to Capernaum Walk
Day 4: Capernaum
Apostle Peter welcoming us to the ruins of
Capernaum
Roger sharing at Capernaum
Day 4: Capernaum
Traditional site of Peter’s home in Capernaum
Day 4: Capernaum
Day 4: Capernaum
Roger & Jana sharing scriptures about Capernaum in the synagogue
Day 4: Sea of Galilee cruise
Boarding a traditional fishing boat on Galilee
Day 4: Sea of Galilee cruise
Sea of Galilee cruise
Day 4: Sea of Galilee cruise
Fishing demo – good thing dinner doesn’t depend upon this guy!
Day 4: Sea of Galilee cruise
Day 4: Sea of Galilee cruise
Blessed by a display of light & shadow
DAY 5 – GOLAN HEIGHTS• Tell Dan – 1 mile walk• Banias – Caesarea Philippi; Jordan
Headwaters – 3 mile walk• Gamla (Masada of the North) – 3 mile
walk
Day 5: Tell Dan archeological site
Ruins of Israelite city of Dan – on northern border
Day 5: Tell Dan archeological site
Canaanite gate – predates Israel’s conquest
Day 5: Tell Dan archeological site
Canaanite gate – predates Israel’s conquest
Day 5: Caesarea Philippi – headwaters of the Jordan River
Caesarea Philippi – “Who do men say that I am?”
Day 5: Caesarea Philippi – headwaters of the Jordan River
Jordan Headwaters Walk
Day 5: Caesarea Philippi – headwaters of the Jordan River
Ran telling story of Valley of Tears – Yom Kippur War of 1973
Day 5: Golan Heights
Day 5: Mount Bental – looking over into Syria
Ran pointing into Syria
Day 5: Mount Bental – looking over into Syria
SYRIA
Day 5: Mount Bental – looking over into Syria
Israeli solder behind Debbie –
just another customer
Day 5: Mount Bental – looking over into Syria
Stopping to talk with tank driver in the Golan
Day 5: Gamla archeological site and nature preserve
Gamla – Masada of the North
Day 5: Gamla archeological site and nature preserve
Gamla Nature Walk
Day 5: Gamla archeological site and nature preserve
Gamla Nature Walk
Day 5: Gamla archeological site and nature preserve
Gamla Nature Walk
Day 5: Gamla archeological site and nature preserve
Gamla Nature Walk
Day 5: Gamla archeological site and nature preserve
Scott & Gary, waiting for us to catch up
DAY 6 – EN ROUTE TO DEAD SEA• Beit She’an National Park – 2 mile walk• Arrive Dead Sea – 1 night
Day 6: Beit She’an National Park
Entering Beit She’an archeological site
Day 6: Beit She’an National Park
Viewing Roman part of the archeological site from the Canaanite Tell
Day 6: Beit She’an National Park
Day 6: Beit She’an National Park
King Saul & Jonathan Walk – Beit She’an
Day 6: Beit She’an National Park
Pre-Roman tell in background
Day 6: Dead Sea
The unsinkables – Dead Sea
DAY 7 – ASCENT TO JERUSALEM• Masada – end of First Jewish Roman War• Ein Gedi National Park – 1.5 mile walk• Qumran – Dead Sea Scrolls• Arrive Jerusalem – 4 nights
Day 7: Masada National Park
Intrepid Snake Path hikers – to Masada!
Day 7: Masada National Park
Day 7: Masada National Park
The other way to reach the top
Ran tells the Masada story
Day 7: Masada National Park
Day 7: Masada National Park
Roman siege ramp on the west side
Day 7: Masada National Park
Day 7: Masada National Park
Looking north from Masada – to the Dead Sea
Day 6: Ein Gedi National Park
Debbie presenting the David & Saul story at Ein
Gedi
Day 6: Ein Gedi National Park
The seldom-seen 2-headed rock coney
Day 6: Ein Gedi National Park
Day 6: Ein Gedi National Park
Ein Gedi David Waterfall Walk
Day 6: Ein Gedi National Park
Ran talking about living water at the David Waterfall – Ein Gedi
Day 6: Ein Gedi National Park
Day 6: Ein Gedi National Park
Ibex – Ein Gedi David Waterfall Walk
Day 7: Qumran
Caves of Qumran – hiding place for the Dead Sea Scrolls
Day 7: Qumran
Jonna sharing at Qumran
Scott & Lee sharing at the Mount of Olives
Day 7: Mount of Olives and Jerusalem
First views of Jerusalem - Dome of the Rock
Day 7: Mount of Olives and Jerusalem
Day 7: Mount of Olives and Jerusalem
Ran reading a Jerusalem blessing from Psalms at the Mount of Olives
DAY 8 – FIRST DAY IN JERUSALEM• Jerusalem Footsteps of Jesus Walk – 3
miles• Yad Vashem holocaust museum
Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Walk start – Mosque of Ascension & the footprint of Jesus??
Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Inside a 1st century tomb on the Mount of Olives
Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Group photo break on walk down from Mount of Olives
Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives – the high rent district!
Chris and Mike sharing scripture about Jesus weeping over Jerusalem
Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Possible site of Garden of Gethsemane
Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Lion’s Gate – entering the Muslim Quarter
Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Walking the Via Dolorosa – the Way of Suffering
Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Stations of the Cross - #3: Jesus falls for the first time
Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Via Dolorosa – Muslim bread vendor eking out a living
Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Church of the Holy Sepulcher – the tomb of
Jesus
Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Door-locking ceremony conducted by Muslim family
Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Church of the Holy Sepulcher – the sacred ladder
Yad Vashem holocaust museum
Day 8: Yad Veshem
Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Yad Vashem holocaust museum
DAY 9 – TEMPLE MOUNT & BETHLEHEM• Temple Mount• Shepherd’s Field• Bethlehem Manger Walk – 2 miles• Church of the Nativity
Day 9: Temple Mount & Dome of the Rock
Approach to Temple Mount
Day 9: Temple Mount & Dome of the Rock
Day 9: Temple Mount & Dome of the Rock
Dome of the Rock
Day 9: Temple Mount & Dome of the Rock
Day 9: Bethlehem
West Bank barrier at Bethlehem
Day 9: Bethlehem – Shepherd’s Field
One of two Shepherd’s Field sites
A likely place on outskirts of Bethlehem
Day 9: Bethlehem – Shepherd’s Field
Day 9: Bethlehem
Arab host for today’s falafel
lunch
Day 9: Bethlehem
Bethlehem Manger Walk
Day 9: Bethlehem
Entering the Church of the Nativity
Day 9: Bethlehem
Entering the cave where Jesus was born
Day 9: Bethlehem
Star marks the spot!
Day 9: Bethlehem
Returning to Jerusalem
DAY 10 – SECOND DAY IN JERUSALEM• Jerusalem Ramparts Walk – 3 miles• Jerusalem Archeological Park (devoted
to Herod’s temple) • Western Wall and Western Wall Tunnel
Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem
Jon joins the Jerusalem Marathon to warm up for ourJerusalem Ramparts Walk
Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem
Walls from 16th century – built by Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
View from the ramparts
Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem
Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem
Us on the wall, marathoners below inside
Jerusalem
Orthodox Jews in the Jewish Quarter
Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem
Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem
Don’t mess with a lady with an Uzi – Jewish Quarter
Southwest corner of Temple Mount from the Davidson Center
Day 10: Jerusalem Archeological Park – Temple Mount
Day 10: Jerusalem Archeological Park – Temple Mount
South entrance to the Temple likely used by Jesus
Western Wall – holiest spot in Judaism
Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem
Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem
Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem
Scenes from the Western Wall – the bar
mitzvah
Day 10: Sound & Light Show
Tower of David – Venue for the Sound & Light show
Day 10: Old Jerusalem
Dinner in fun, old restaurant in Armenian Quarter
DAY 11 – HOMEWARD BOUND• Hezekiah’s Tunnel (optional)• Garden Tomb• Israel Museum and Shrine of the Book• Depart for home
Day 11: City of David & Hezekiah’s Tunnel
Likely ruins of David’s palace – outside current walls of Old Jerusalem!
Day 11: City of David & Hezekiah’s Tunnel
2700-year-old tunnel commissioned by Hezekiah
Day 11: City of David & Hezekiah’s Tunnel
Day 11: City of David & Hezekiah’s Tunnel
Regrouping at the end of Hezekiah’s Tunnel
Day 11: The Garden Tomb
Garden Tomb – alternate site of Jesus’ burial & resurrection
Day 11: The Garden Tomb
Day 11: The Garden Tomb
Jon leading communion on our last morning in Garden Tomb
Day 11: Israel Museum & Shrine of the Book
Israel model from 2nd temple period – Israel Museum
Day 11: Israel Museum & Shrine of the Book
Day 11: Israel Museum & Shrine of the Book
Roof of Shrine of the Book – museum of Dead Sea Scrolls
Walking Israel…More than a Pilgrimage
Points to Ponder
IMPORTANCE OF WATER
Points to Ponder
IMPORTANCE OF WATER• North surprisingly green
Points to Ponder
IMPORTANCE OF WATER• North surprisingly green• 10% of Jordan River reaches Dead Sea
Points to Ponder
IMPORTANCE OF WATER• North surprisingly green• 10% of Jordan River reaches Dead Sea• Dead Sea waters levels dropping dramatically
Points to Ponder
IMPORTANCE OF WATER• North surprisingly green• 10% of Jordan River reaches Dead Sea• Dead Sea waters levels dropping dramatically• Controversy over control of Jordan River with
Jordan
Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE ISRAELIS?
Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE ISRAELIS?• Not all Jews – Arabs sizeable minority
Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE ISRAELIS?• Not all Jews – Arabs sizeable minority• Arabs not all Muslims – Christians a sizeable
minority
Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE JEWS?
Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE JEWS?• Not all Semitic in appearance of ethnicity
Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE JEWS?• Not all Semitic in appearance of ethnicity• Ashkenazi vs Sephardic
Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE JEWS?• Not all Semitic in appearance of ethnicity• Ashkenazi vs Sephardic• Religious vs Secular
Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE JEWS?• Not all Semitic in appearance of ethnicity• Ashkenazi vs Sephardic• Religious vs Secular• Judaism vs Zionism
Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS?
Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS?• Controversial! Whose descendants are they?
Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS?• Controversial! Whose descendants are they?• Refugee problem – Jordan over 50% Palestinian
and most in “camps”
Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS?• Controversial! Whose descendants are they?• Refugee problem – Jordan over 50% Palestinian
and most in “camps”• Why have non-Arab Muslims taken up cause of
Arab Palestinians?
Points to Ponder
OUR DUAL HERITAGE IN ISRAEL
Points to Ponder
OUR DUAL HERITAGE IN ISRAEL• Spiritual descendants of Abraham – returning to
our Old Covenant homeland
Points to Ponder
OUR DUAL HERITAGE IN ISRAEL• Spiritual descendants of Abraham – returning to
our Old Covenant homeland• Christian heritage - family interest as children of
God and joint-heirs with Christ to see our homeland
Walking Israel…More than a Pilgrimage
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