Ancient Shivta, Negev Desert Shivta, in Israel’s Negev Desert is a Nabatean-Roman-Byzantine city, founded around 1 century BCE, that forms part of the series of UNESCO Heritage Site Desert Cities (Shivta, ...

Tel Azekah Tel Azekah (Tell Zakariya) is located in the heart of the Judean Lowland (347 meters above sea level), Tel Azekah once controlled a strategic junction of roads from the Mediterranean ...

Every tour guide in Israel must recognize and point out to Christian pilgrims at least these two trees relevant to Christian tradition :- the Judas Tree and the Rosebud Tree. ...

What draws the Pope and the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem to hold a Mass on Mount Precipice in Nazareth? What is so special about this mountain? First, take a look ...

  Jerusalem’s newest venue for family fun Teddy Park is at the foot of the Old City walls, across the street from Jaffa Gate. In fact it is near many well-know ...

The construction of a Russian church in the Ottoman Empire was part of the grand strategy of the major European powers in the nineteenth century to “grace” the Holy City with buildings ...

My visit to Qumran Visiting the 2,000 year-old ruins of Qumran, overlooking the Dead Sea on the edge of the Judean Wilderness, you gain a deeper appreciation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which contain ...

The non-conformist village of Klil holds a plethera of surprises for you. The most entertaining surprise I found was the invention of a holy site for the well-known Biblical character ...

On the southern shore of the Dead Sea you will find chemical industry and tourism. However the northern shore of the Dead Sea is all history, nature and geology. As my ...

“South Korea is probably the only country that can understand Israel’s complicated situation,” said Lee Gun-Tae, the South Korean Ambassador to Israel. Many Korean Christian pilgrims come to Israel. The ...