The Sarona Market was created in order to serve as the newest culinary heart-beat of Tel-Aviv. It is located at the Sarona compound, a 140 year-old ex-Templer- settlement in the heart of Tel-Aviv. At the time, German Templer-settlers arrived in Tel-Aviv in aspiration of pious-missionary Christian activities. Sarona...
By Aaron FinJul 18Jul 17
Like Judaism and Islam, Christianity shares a long history with Jerusalem, a city that is considered the holiest in the world. Jerusalem is important to Christians because it was where a very young Jesus impressed the sages at the Jewish Temple. It is also where he spent the last days of his ministry, and where the...
By Aaron FinJul 13Jul 13
Lunada is an interactive Science museum in the southern city of Beer-Sheva. The museum was established a few years back in order to offer children, mainly up to the age of 12, to be introduced to the wonders of Science. It’s a super-friendly place, where one walks in socks or bear-foot, on special mattresses. The...
By Aaron FinJul 7Jul 18
The Protestant communities in the Middle East only date from the early 19th century and the establishment of Western diplomatic representations in Jerusalem. The intention of these missions was to evangelize the Muslim and Jewish communities, but their only success was in attracting Arabic-speaking Orthodox...
By Aaron FinJun 7Jul 18
The Jerusalem-Mamila neighborhood was established in the 19th century, when it had been built outside of the walls of the Old City; upfront of Jaffa Gate. In year 1972, a company by the name of “Karta” was established in order to rebuild the entire Mamilla region, meaning, the vacation of property-owners and the...
By Aaron FinMay 29Jul 18
The Ariel Sharon Park is a unique example of a green slot in the midst of a highly urbanized area, that had been allocated to serve as a reservation for environmental rehabilitation projects. Once, not many years ago, the Park; then called “Hiriya”, served as the main waste-ground for the center of Israel, a place that...
By Aaron FinMay 14Jul 19
Eilat is the most southern city of Israel. It is a pearl of a resort city, at the end of the desert. The uniqueness of the city lies in its warm and sunny weather, throughout the year. Eilat offers a wonderful sea (the red sea) , soft beaches and varied water sports; colorful mountains; the magnificent coral reefs to...
By Aaron FinMay 9Jul 19
The church of Dominus Flevit (“The master cried”) in Jerusalem is a beautiful Catholic-Franciscan church, that had been built on the ruins of a Byzantine church, in 1955; to commemorate Jesus’ crying when he looked at Jerusalem and realized that the city is about to lose itself to hatred, self-destruction and...
By Aaron FinMar 3Jul 20
Ramla is a city at the center of Israel, southeast of Tel Aviv–Yafo. It had been established in year 717 by a Muslim Caliph by the name of Sulaymān ibn-Abed-al-Malik, whoi had created it to be his administrative Capital of Palestine. The city had been built with unique Mosque (these days it is in ruins….) aside...
By Aaron FinNov 9Jul 20
Everyone is invited to Druze & Circassian villages in the Galilee; for a festival of Olive trees. This is the time of the year to harvest the olives. This is also the perfect time to visit the villages and enjoy a tour of daily lifestyle, tradition and religion. On Saturdays, throughout the month of November, 2014,...
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