The Benedictine Monastery in Abu Ghosh – St. Mary of the Resurrection Abbey The Benedictine Monastery – St. Mary of the Resurrection Abbey – in Abu Gosh is one of the best ...

Families with children will bless the day they learned of all the vacation activities for them in the Galilee village of Kfar Tavor. Get out of the city and experience ...

Tell me about Yad Vashem Yad Vashem, Israel’s largest Holocaust memorial, is set on the western slope of Mount Herzl on the Mount of Remembrance on the edge of Jerusalem, adjoining ...

Khan et Tujjar also Suk al Khan (Hebrew חאן אל תוג’אר) Early Arab The West side of Khan et Tujjar (“caravanserai of the merchants”) is the ruins of a 8th-9th Century ...

What does Mount Tabor mean to tourists? Author Tamar Orvell summarized his visit to Israel, “In Israel’s Lower Galilee, looms Mount Tabor. Something about this mound of earth at the ...

Kiryat Ye’arim and the Ark of the Covenant The site of Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant is based on Jewish history. In the Bible, this village is called ...

What’s in a name? Mount Herzl (הר הרצל) or Har Herzl is named after Dr. Binyamin Ze’ev (Theodor) Herzl, visionary of the Jewish State and founder of modern political Zionism, ...

Beit She’an is one of the oldest cities in Israel. The elevated mound of Tel Beit She’an (Tel el-Husn) contains the remains of the Canaanite and Egyptian cities. Classical Roman and ...

Panorama of Ein Karem from the Church of the Visitation The village of Ein Karem in Judaea not far from Jerusalem was mentioned several times in the Bible (Jeremiah 6:1; Nehemiah ...

Just as I picked up my keyboard and began to type R-u-h-a-m-a my hands began to shake. Ruhama was the home of  Capt. Yori Harnash ז״ל, a dear buddy from ...