Mar-Saba Monastery is a Greek-Orthodox Monastery, built on a cliff just outside of the Kidron Valley, near Jerusalem– in the northern part of the Judean Desert, also not far from Beit Lehem. Some call it: “Heaven on Earth, in the middle of nowhere”. The Monastery is named after its founder, Monk Sabas. The Monastery has...

Yardenit; Pilgrims from the all over the world come to the Holy Land and to the Yardenit site for a specific purpose: to walk in the footsteps of Jesus and to be baptized. “Yarden”, in Hebrew, is the River Jordan. This site is believed to have been the site at which Jesus had been baptized at, on the Jordan River. The...

Kfar kanna has been identified, as of the middle-ages, with the New Testament’s village of “Kanna”, at which Jesus had performed his first miracle. “The wedding at Kanna” is the miracle at which Jesus had turned water into whine. Today, there are two churches commemorating the event: “The Wedding Church”...

Modern Jaffa is part of the city of Tel-Aviv. It used to be an ancient port/harbor, connected to Biblical times as well as to the Prophet Jonah. Various legends aim to explain the origins of the name, whether be it Jopa- the daughter  of the God of Wind, or connected to Japhet – son of Noah (re the great Biblical...

Mount Arbel is a Nature Park Reserve, located in the Lower Galilee, overlooking the Sear of Galilee. Mount Arbel rises 181 meters above sea level, approximately 390 Meters above the Sea of Galilee. Mount Arbel; a historic Galilee mountain, is nowadays a Nature Reserve  and is also part of the Israel Trail. The Park...

Rosh-Hanikra’s national park is a beautiful place located at the edge of Israel’s north border with Lebanon, at the Western part of the Galilee. It is the only place where the mountain-stone enters the sea, without leaving a stretch of beach. It is special by its unique Caves that are the result of an ongoing Geological...

Zikhron-Ya’akov means “the memory of Jacob”; an Israeli city located some 35 Kilometers south of Haifa, at the slopes of the Carmel mountain. The city is facing the Mediterranean Sea. It was founded in 1882 by Baron Edmond James de-Rothschild and named in honor of his father. The city is one of the first Jewish...

Netanya is the first, official, Hebrew city. These days, Netanya is the largest city located between Haifa and Tel Aviv. The city is located 30km north of Tel Aviv and 50km south of Haifa. The city was named after the Zionist activist, Mr. Natan Strauss; its meaning I Hebrew is “God’s gift”. Netanya was officially formed...

A unique Desert Gem; located in the south of Israel, a reservation known as “Park Timna”. The Park is located some 25 km north of the city of Eilat. The uniqueness of the park lies in its combination of ancient Biblical history, Archaeological findings and breathtaking landscape. It tells the stories of King...

Ashdod, one of the largest port-towns of Israel, was founded in 1956 (turning into a formal city in 1968). Today the city is home to some 211,000 inhabitants. Being located on the shores of the Mediterranean coast, Ashdod had evolved into the largest port in terms of cargo-ships and in terms of volume of...