Lower Galilee.Ilaniya was founded in 1899 as a training farm. In 1902, it became a moshava, the first settlement in the Lower Galilee. Many Second Aliyah pioneers, among them David Ben Gurion, worked in Sejera as hired laborers. Bar Giora established there the first communes of Jewish guards, From within these communes of workers and […]
German Lutheran Church of the Redeemer built on the foundations of the Crusader church Sainte Marie (11th century).The present church erected in 1898 on land granted as a gift by the Sultan to the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm, in 1869. The church was consegrated in 1898 by Kaiser Wilhelm II, during a visit to […]
The communities of Alonei Abba and Beit Lehem Haglilit sit on the hills east of Kiryat Tivon in the western Galilee surrounded by the 240 acre Alonei Abba nature reserve of Tabor Oaks. This reserve is the largest remains of the forest that once stretched from Hadera and Caesarea to Tivon and the Nazareth hills. […]
Labels: Negev, Ramat HaNegev, Sde Boker Graves of Paula and David Ben-Gurion in Sde Boker.
The Private home of the district officer and Arab Historian Aref El-Aref (1892-1973) Built in 1938.
Labels: Christian Holy Places, Jericho
Galli-cantu means cock-crow in Latin and today a golden rooster protrudes prominently from the church roof.St. Peter’s belongs to the Assumptionist Fathers, which is a French order established in 1887 and named for Mary’s Assumption to heaven. The Order has its headquarters in Jerusalem’s monumental Notre Dame de France complex, built in 1889.The Assumptionist Fathers […]
HaNegev Palmach Brigade Memorial Designed by Dani Karavan.The monument memorializes the conquest of Beersheba and operations of the Negev Brigade.
Kfar Nahum (Nahum’s village), Nahum being a prophet.An ancient fishing town on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee uninhabited since the eight century.It has been established that settlement on the site began in the second century BC. It was a small unfortified town that did not take part in the first and second […]
Old City of Jerusalem. Jaffa Gate (Sha’ar Yafo or Bab al Khalil) is the main western entrance to the Old City.The Jaffa Gate was restored by funds collected from South African Jewry after the Six Day War. General Allenby entered Jerusalem through this gate in 1971 after defeating the Turks in his march through Palestine.
St. Peter & St. Paul Church is located on one of the town’s peaks of the old city.The church was built by Ottoman the son of the Ottoman ruler Daher al-Omar.
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During the Roman era, King Herod (20BC) renovated, reinforced and expanded the Temple and its area. The Temple Mount was enlarged and huge supporting walls were built. After the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by the Romans in 70CE the supporting walls and platform remained. It was not a part of the Temple itself, […]
Labels: Acre, Hamam al Basha, Museum The Turkish Bath. A public bathhouse that was built by El-Jazar in the year 1795.
