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Things of Interest

Things of Interest
Olive Groves

Observing the thin olive leaf Olive trees grew everywhere

Security was tight in many areas like Palestinian controlled Bethlehem - (note the walls).

 
A Manger

(We, Americans, teach our children that Jesus was placed in a wooden manger in a barn. Jesus actually would have been born in a cave room and placed in a manger such as this one.)

Mangers were probably made from stone rather than wood

Mezuzah
(placed over doors to protect the Jewish homes, as in Passover- see Deut 6:4)

 mezuzah to protect the house of israel
Water Heaters on roofs

 Water heater on top of the buildings

Camel ride
Banana Trees

Banana Trees

Daycare and students in Jerusalem

Daycare On a field trip At the dome High School aged students
Sycamore tree like the one used by Zachius

 Sycamore tree - not the tree, but one like it

 Muslim Ladies
 
Israel's Soldiers were everywhere to protect the country.

All Israelis join the military at the age of  18 (3 yrs service for boys, 2 yrs for girls).
Soldiers 18-21

Bus vendors will give a bargain

View from our hotel over New Jerusalem

 

The Judas Tree 

(This was the type of tree that Judas was to believed to have hung himself after betraying Jesus)

Type of tree Judas hung himself from

Falafel and Coke $5.00

(Typical Israeli lunch)

Almond Tree

(Israeli's eat almonds as a snack - but they eat them raw. They are very bitter this way.)
Itai, our Jewish guide

Our guide

 And my kids wondered why we didn't call:

 Phone in Israel
Jabar, our Driver

(Also a Palestinian Soccer Coach)

Our driver

 Prickly Pear Cactus of Israel

Jujube tree - thorns for a crown?

 

Culture Differences

 

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