Presentation of walking tour of the Holy Land (Israel only) for March 2014 based upon photos from the 2013 edition of the program.

2. “The world is a book and those who do not
travel read only one page.”
Augustine of Hippo

5. Walking to Joppa from Tel Aviv
Day 1: Tel Aviv & Jaffa (Joppa)

6. The port of Joppa

7. Day 1: Tel Aviv & Jaffa (Joppa)

8. Where we stopped to tell the story of
Peter’s vision of Gentile acceptance
Day 1: Tel Aviv & Jaffa (Joppa)

9. DAY 2 – CAESAREA/MT CARMEL/NAZARETH
• Caesarea Walk – 3 miles
• Druze lunch – Mount Carmel
• Elijah site - Mount Carmel
• Arrive Nazareth – 2 nights

10. Day 2: Caesarea
Byzantine-era aqueduct – start
point of walk to Caesarea

11. Double documentation by
Roger and Jana
Day 2: Caesarea

12. Day 2: Caesarea

13. Day 2: Caesarea

14. Day 2: Caesarea

15. Day 2: Caesarea
Walking along the Mediterranean
through the rubble of the aqueduct

16. Day 2: Caesarea

17. Day 2: Caesarea

18. Day 2: Caesarea
Leaving the theater and Caesarea

19. Plains of Jezreel from Mukraka Monastery –
where Elijah dueled the prophets of Baal
Day 2: Mount Carmel

20. Day 2: Mount Carmel
Barbara teaching on Elijah’s
duel with prophets of Baal

21. Day 2: Nazareth

22. DAY 3 – FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS
• Tsipori – birthplace of Mary
• Walk to Cana – 6 miles
• Visit Nazareth Village

23. Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Ran giving the Tsipori
overview

24. Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk

25. Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Mosaic Mona Lisa of Galilee - Tsipori

26. Walking through the
cisterns – Tsipori
water supply
Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk

27. Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk

28. Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk

29. Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk

30. Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk

31. Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk

32. Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk

33. Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk

34. Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk

35. Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk

36. Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk

37. Day 3: Tsipori to Cana Walk
Franciscan church
commemorating the
Water into Wine miracle

38. DAY 4 –SEA OF GALILEE
• Mount Arbel
• Jesus Boat Museum
• Mount of Beatitudes Walk to Capernaum –
3 miles
• Sea of Galilee cruise
• Arrive Sea of Galilee hotel – 2 nights

39. Day 4: Nazareth to Sea of Galilee

40. Overlooking the Sea of
Galilee from Mount Arbel
Day 4: Mount Arbel

41. Day 4: Mount Arbel

42. Day 4: The Jesus Boat
2000-year-old
“Jesus Boat”

43. Day 4: Mount of Beatitudes

44. Day 4: Mount of Beatitudes
Mount of Beatitudes to
Capernaum Walk

45. Day 4: Mount of Beatitudes
Walking towards the Sea of Galilee

46. Day 4: Mount of Beatitudes
Kent sharing about the Sermon on the Mount –
Mount of Beatitudes to Capernaum Walk

47. Day 4: Capernaum

48. Roger sharing at Capernaum
Day 4: Capernaum

49. Day 4: Capernaum

50. Day 4: Capernaum

51. Day 4: Sea of Galilee cruise

52. Day 4: Sea of Galilee cruise
Sea of Galilee cruise

53. Day 4: Sea of Galilee cruise
Fishing demo – good thing dinner
doesn’t depend upon this guy!

54. Day 4: Sea of Galilee cruise

55. Day 4: Sea of Galilee cruise

56. DAY 5 – GOLAN HEIGHTS
• Tell Dan – 1 mile walk
• Banias – Caesarea Philippi; Jordan
Headwaters – 3 mile walk
• Gamla (Masada of the North) – 3 mile
walk

57. Day 5: Tell Dan archeological site

58. Day 5: Tell Dan archeological site

59. Day 5: Tell Dan archeological site

60. Day 5: Caesarea Philippi – headwaters of the Jordan River

61. Day 5: Caesarea Philippi – headwaters of the Jordan River

62. Day 5: Caesarea Philippi – headwaters of the Jordan River

63. Day 5: Golan Heights

64. Day 5: Mount Bental – looking over into Syria
Ran pointing into Syria

65. Day 5: Mount Bental – looking over into Syria
SYRIA

66. Day 5: Mount Bental – looking over into Syria
Israeli solder
behind Debbie –
just another
customer

67. Day 5: Mount Bental – looking over into Syria
Stopping to talk with tank
driver in the Golan

68. Day 5: Gamla archeological site and nature preserve
Gamla – Masada of
the North

69. Day 5: Gamla archeological site and nature preserve
Gamla Nature Walk

70. Day 5: Gamla archeological site and nature preserve

71. Day 5: Gamla archeological site and nature preserve

72. Day 5: Gamla archeological site and nature preserve

73. Day 5: Gamla archeological site and nature preserve
Scott & Gary, waiting for us to catch up

74. DAY 6 – EN ROUTE TO DEAD SEA
• Beit She’an National Park – 2 mile walk
• Arrive Dead Sea – 1 night

75. Day 6: Beit She’an National Park

76. Day 6: Beit She’an National Park

77. Day 6: Beit She’an National Park

78. Day 6: Beit She’an National Park
King Saul & Jonathan
Walk – Beit She’an

79. Day 6: Beit She’an National Park
Pre-Roman tell in background

80. Day 6: Dead Sea

81. DAY 7 – ASCENT TO JERUSALEM
• Masada – end of First Jewish Roman War
• Ein Gedi National Park – 1.5 mile walk
• Qumran – Dead Sea Scrolls
• Arrive Jerusalem – 4 nights

82. Day 7: Masada National Park
Intrepid Snake Path hikers – to Masada!

83. Day 7: Masada National Park

84. Day 7: Masada National Park
The other way to
reach the top

85. Day 7: Masada National Park

86. Day 7: Masada National Park

87. Day 7: Masada National Park

88. Day 7: Masada National Park
Looking north from Masada –
to the Dead Sea

89. Day 6: Ein Gedi National Park

90. Day 6: Ein Gedi National Park
The seldom-seen 2-headed rock coney

91. Day 6: Ein Gedi National Park

92. Day 6: Ein Gedi National Park

93. Day 6: Ein Gedi National Park

94. Day 6: Ein Gedi National Park

95. Day 6: Ein Gedi National Park

96. Day 7: Qumran

97. Day 7: Qumran

98. Scott & Lee sharing at the Mount of Olives
Day 7: Mount of Olives and Jerusalem

99. Day 7: Mount of Olives and Jerusalem

100. Day 7: Mount of Olives and Jerusalem

101. DAY 8 – FIRST DAY IN JERUSALEM
• Jerusalem Footsteps of Jesus Walk – 3
miles
• Yad Vashem holocaust museum

102. Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem

103. Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Inside a 1st century tomb on
the Mount of Olives

104. Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Group photo break on walk down
from Mount of Olives

105. Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives –
the high rent district!

106. Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem

107. Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem

108. Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Possible site of Garden of Gethsemane

109. Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem

110. Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem

111. Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem

112. Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Via Dolorosa –
Muslim bread vendor eking out a living

113. Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem

114. Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem

115. Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem

116. Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem

117. Yad Vashem
holocaust museum
Day 8: Yad Veshem

118. Day 8: Mount of Olives & Jerusalem
Yad Vashem
holocaust museum

119. DAY 9 – TEMPLE MOUNT & BETHLEHEM
• Temple Mount
• Shepherd’s Field
• Bethlehem Manger Walk – 2 miles
• Church of the Nativity

120. Day 9: Temple Mount & Dome of the Rock
Approach to Temple Mount

121. Day 9: Temple Mount & Dome of the Rock

122. Day 9: Temple Mount & Dome of the Rock
Dome of the Rock

123. Day 9: Temple Mount & Dome of the Rock

124. Day 9: Bethlehem
West Bank barrier at
Bethlehem

125. Day 9: Bethlehem – Shepherd’s Field

126. A likely place on
outskirts of Bethlehem
Day 9: Bethlehem – Shepherd’s Field

127. Day 9: Bethlehem

128. Day 9: Bethlehem

129. Day 9: Bethlehem

130. Day 9: Bethlehem
Entering the cave
where Jesus was born

131. Day 9: Bethlehem

132. Day 9: Bethlehem

133. DAY 10 – SECOND DAY IN JERUSALEM
• Jerusalem Ramparts Walk – 3 miles
• Jerusalem Archeological Park (devoted
to Herod’s temple)
• Western Wall and Western Wall Tunnel

134. Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem
Jon joins the Jerusalem Marathon to
warm up for ourJerusalem Ramparts Walk

135. Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem
Walls from 16th century – built by Ottoman
Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent

136. View from the
ramparts
Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem

137. Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem

138. Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem

139. Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem

140. Day 10: Jerusalem Archeological Park – Temple Mount

141. Day 10: Jerusalem Archeological Park – Temple Mount

142. Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem

143. Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem

144. Day 10: Ramparts of Old Jerusalem

145. Day 10: Sound & Light Show

146. Day 10: Old Jerusalem

147. DAY 11 – HOMEWARD BOUND
• Hezekiah’s Tunnel (optional)
• Garden Tomb
• Israel Museum and Shrine of the Book
• Depart for home

148. Day 11: City of David & Hezekiah’s Tunnel

149. Day 11: City of David & Hezekiah’s Tunnel

150. Day 11: City of David & Hezekiah’s Tunnel

151. Day 11: City of David & Hezekiah’s Tunnel

152. Day 11: The Garden Tomb

153. Day 11: The Garden Tomb

154. Day 11: The Garden Tomb

155. Day 11: Israel Museum & Shrine of the Book
Israel model from 2nd temple
period – Israel Museum

156. Day 11: Israel Museum & Shrine of the Book

157. Day 11: Israel Museum & Shrine of the Book

159. Points to Ponder
IMPORTANCE OF WATER

160. Points to Ponder
IMPORTANCE OF WATER
• North surprisingly green

161. Points to Ponder
IMPORTANCE OF WATER
• North surprisingly green
• 10% of Jordan River reaches Dead Sea

162. Points to Ponder
IMPORTANCE OF WATER
• North surprisingly green
• 10% of Jordan River reaches Dead Sea
• Dead Sea waters levels dropping dramatically

163. Points to Ponder
IMPORTANCE OF WATER
• North surprisingly green
• 10% of Jordan River reaches Dead Sea
• Dead Sea waters levels dropping dramatically
• Controversy over control of Jordan River with
Jordan

164. Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE ISRAELIS?

165. Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE ISRAELIS?
• Not all Jews – Arabs sizeable minority

166. Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE ISRAELIS?
• Not all Jews – Arabs sizeable minority
• Arabs not all Muslims – Christians a sizeable
minority

167. Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE JEWS?

168. Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE JEWS?
• Not all Semitic in appearance of ethnicity

169. Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE JEWS?
• Not all Semitic in appearance of ethnicity
• Ashkenazi vs Sephardic

170. Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE JEWS?
• Not all Semitic in appearance of ethnicity
• Ashkenazi vs Sephardic
• Religious vs Secular

171. Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE JEWS?
• Not all Semitic in appearance of ethnicity
• Ashkenazi vs Sephardic
• Religious vs Secular
• Judaism vs Zionism

172. Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS?

173. Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS?
• Controversial! Whose descendants are they?

174. Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS?
• Controversial! Whose descendants are they?
• Refugee problem – Jordan over 50% Palestinian
and most in “camps”

175. Points to Ponder
WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS?
• Controversial! Whose descendants are they?
• Refugee problem – Jordan over 50% Palestinian
and most in “camps”
• Why have non-Arab Muslims taken up cause of
Arab Palestinians?

176. Points to Ponder
OUR DUAL HERITAGE IN ISRAEL

177. Points to Ponder
OUR DUAL HERITAGE IN ISRAEL
• Spiritual descendants of Abraham – returning to
our Old Covenant homeland

178. Points to Ponder
OUR DUAL HERITAGE IN ISRAEL
• Spiritual descendants of Abraham – returning to
our Old Covenant homeland
• Christian heritage - family interest as children of
God and joint-heirs with Christ to see our
homeland