As the sun is setting here in Israel, we await the first three stars to appear, officially ending the day of rest. Although most Israeli Jewish people have enjoyed their day off, our group of 53 souls has been quite busy…
March 2018 Up To Jerusalem Tour—Day Nine
We spent the morning at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Memorial. The name “Yad Vashem” means “a name and a memory,” which is the desire here for those who lost their lives in the holocaust. It was a very emotional morning…
March 2018 Up To Jerusalem Tour—Day Eight
This morning we made our way from the quiet Jewish community on Shabbat (the Sabbath) to the craziness of the Mount of Olives. This is the most popular Jewish cemetery in all of the world and tourist from all over were there…
March 2018 Up To Jerusalem Tour—Day Seven
We got an early start to our morning beginning with the Davidson Center. Here at the southern wall of the Temple Mount we were shown computerized images of Jerusalem and the Temple from the 1st century…
March 2018 Up To Jerusalem Tour—Day Six
We checked out of our beautiful hotel on the Dead Sea this morning. The only good thing about that is that we’re headed to Jerusalem later today. This morning we began at Masada. What an unbelievable feat of building and engineering Masada was…
March 2018 Up To Jerusalem Tour—Day Five
This morning we said goodbye to the Sea of Galilee and headed south. Our first stop being Harod Spring in the Jezreel Valley. Here we saw Gideon’s Spring. For seven years the Israelites had been doing evil in the sight of the Lord worshipping Baal…