Sometimes tour guides need to go on a tour too! Yesterday I headed out with my friends and fellow tour guides Meir Eisenman and Daniel Selig to explore some less-visited sites in the Galilee. Among the sites we toured were: Tel Usha – Site of the Sanhedrin after the Bar Kochba Revolts The Ancient Synagogue […]
Tonight I will be attending the annual City of David Archaeological Conference. In advance of the conference, the Israel Antiquities Authority has released the news of an amazing new discovery. While excavating a drainage tunnel from the Second Temple Period, they found many structures from the First Temple Period that were built over to make […]
Last week a grandmother from Israel called me with a challenge. Her two grandsons, 11 and 14 are visiting from Pittsburgh. She wanted me to design a half day tour for them that would get them engaged in the Land of Israel. She felt they had been a bit too glued to their handheld devices […]
Ever wonder if you need to tip a cab in Israel? How about if you need a power converter for your laptop? Or maybe you were wondering about the best way to change your money to Shekels? Yesterday I put together a new page of Israel travel tips chock full of answers to these questions and […]
A picture I took from the Manara Cliff. Manara is in the Tribe of Naphtali’s area in the Galilee. Below you can see Kiryat Shemona and in the haze is the Golan Heights. There is a cable car at Manara that you can take down to Kiryat Shemona. You can’t tell me this picture doesn’t […]
Last Rosh Chodesh I wroteabout some of the animals which are featured in the Barchi Nafshi prayer from Psalms. One of the animals I mentioned is the Hyrax. I pointed out that one of the best places to see them in abundance in at the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve. Today I came across a link […]
Tomorrow, Friday is the 28th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan. It is the day when the walls of Jericho miraculously fell after being surrounded by Joshua and the Israelites for 7 days. You can read the story in the Book of Joshua here. Because of this event, the sages of the Talmud call Jericho, […]
At first I really didn’t like the new Facebook timeline style pages. But today I took a few minutes to play around with it and I am beginning to really like it. Take a look at the new design for my facebook page. I just started the page a few days ago, and would be […]
Tonight is the last night of Pesach. It will be nice to have two days to rest from a busy week of hikes and tours. Here is a picture I took last Pesach with my cellphone camera while hiking the Nahal Tekoa (also known as Wadi Tekoa). Chag Sameach!
