By Aaron FinMar 28Aug 26
One of the enchanted places to celebrate Christmas in Israel is in the city of Nazareth. It usually begins with a Christmas Festival-Market, about a week before the holiday, a weekend event that lasts between 11:00 am to 23:00 pm. A variety of shows will be held indoors and outdoors for children as well as for the...
By Aaron FinMar 28Aug 26
Mount Tabor is a high mountain; well known throughout its history, located in the south of Nazareth. The mountain is part of the scenery of the Jezreel Valley, in the north of Israel and it one of the highest mountains in the Lower Galilee. The summit’s height reaches 562 meters above sea-level and rises to a height...
By Aaron FinMar 28Mar 28
!Herodis- (Herodium) is one of the most fascinating buildings of the ancient world The site had already been mentioned in Jewish history's Bar-Kockva letters, referring to a Palace-Fortress built by King Herod, in 24 BC, commemorating the King's name The Herodium, a 786m tall Fortress, is located about 8 miles...
By Aaron FinMar 28Aug 13
The Stella Maris Monastery or also known as “Monastery of Our Lady of Mount Carmel” is situated in the city of Haifa. The Monastery serves as a global center for the Carmelites. The monastery’s ground floor is built out of thick walls with very few and very small openings- and all are barred. This, according to history,...
By Aaron FinMar 28Aug 15
The Basilica in Nazareth is one of the largest and most exclusive ones in the Holy Land aside being one of the holiest in the Christian world. According to Tradition, The Angel Gabriel had announced to mother Mary of the birth of Jesus. The Byzantines had built a church at this site. Afterwards, the Crusaders had...
By Aaron FinMar 28Nov 19
“The Jesus Boat” is located north of the city of Tiberias, at Kibbutz Ginosar, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. “The Jesus Boat “is a recently-discovered fishing boat; dating to the 1st century AD. In 1986, an ancient boat was pulled out of the mud, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. It was an extraordinary...
By Aaron FinMar 28Aug 15
Mount Naum is over looking the Sea of Galilee. Further to Christian tradition, the Mount of Beatitudes is the place where Jesus held one of his most important sermons (on the mountain; Mt 5, Lk 6:20) to the people who gathered to listen to him. This sermon contains nine verses, each starting with “Blessed is...
By Aaron FinMar 28Jul 22
Bethlehem is an important site in all three religions that represent the land of Israel: Judaism, Islam and Christianity. The meaning of the name stems from the Hebrew and Arabic terms “House of Bread”. The city is located south of Jerusalem, Further to the 1995 Israeli- Palestinian Internal agreements; it had been...
By Aaron FinMar 28Nov 19
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...
By Aaron FinMar 28Nov 19
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...
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