Israel and You Spaces and Places in Israel
Many of you reading this blog post in IsraelandYou will never be able to visit the country called “Lebanon”. Today we can only visit Lebanon by Drone. Let’s pretend we ...
Read More »Rise Above Lebanon by Drone *
Israel and You
Jerash Jordan *
Jerash is considered one of the largest and most well-preserved sites of Roman architecture in the world outside Italy. Jerash is now the second-most popular tourist attraction in Jordan, closely ...
Read More »Jerusalem Delivered in Downtown Sorrento
Jerusalem Delivered How unexpected, as an Israeli visiting Italy, to find “Jerusalem delivered” in downtown Sorrento. Hold on, I shall try to explain this to you. Piazza Tasso First of ...
Read More »Aggression and Self-Preservation *
Aggression and Self-Preservation Aggression and Self-Preservation: Aggression can have benefits or negative effects. Aggressive behavior is an individual or collective social interaction that is a hostile behavior with the intention of ...
Read More »Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah *
Did a superheated asteroid exploded in the sky above the Dead Sea 3700 years ago, obliterating the cities Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim? Neighboring Zoar (Bela) was the only city to be spared. Of ...
Read More »Masada Air Drone View *
Masada Masada National Park-מצדה was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001. Masada, in Hebrew means “fortress”. Masada is an ancient fortification built atop a horst plateau in the Judean Desert of southern Israel, overlooking the ...
Read More »Mar Saba – دير مار سابا – מנזר מר סבא *
The Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas, known in Syriac as Mar Saba is the largest monastery in Israel’s Judaean Desert. This Eastern Orthodox Christian monastery lies to the south and west of the capital city ...
Read More »Carmela of Sorrento
Between the Circumvesuviana train station and the Sita bus station in Sorrento there stands the bust of Giambattista de Curtis. Why did he deserve a statue? So I started to look up his name and ...
Read More »Jewish Graffiti in Pompeii
The IsraelandYou Blog is usually centered on our only Jewish State (unless you consider the Igbo Jews of Biafra, Nigeria as the second Jewish state). Having just returned from a lovely ...
Read More »Nabi Musa by Air Drone *
Nabi Musa – نبي موسى Israeli and Palestinian Sunni Muslims celebrated at Nabi Musa an annual seven-day long religious festival beginning on the Friday before Good Friday in the old Greek Orthodox calendar. The festival centered on a ...
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