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100 years Tel Aviv Water Tower - 26.12.24
100 years ago Ezi’s
grandfather, Arpad Gut, designed and built this water tower on the sands of Tel Aviv. Today the celebrations were great. When we neared the tower, we were surprised to see crowds of children and adults in the street around the tower. Muma, who is 90, met kids she went to school with, and even a woman whose parents were her teacher. We all gathered around the mayor to light candles and sing. We watched the light show and marvelled. It was like old tel aviv.
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Even one ballistic missile a night aimed at my city is enough to make sleep a problem. Trying getting back to sleep after a suddening awakening, a run to safety, 10 minutes in shelter, and then to bed.
sleepless in tel Aviv – 26.12.24 Read Post »
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Arbel - 25.12.24
It was here that a battle between the followers of the Maccabees and the Greeks took place. People took refuge in the caves and later in time, partisans of King Matityahu Antigonus fought against King Herod and the Romans.
The second time around the Romans dropped down from above and killed the people hiding in caves.
It’s a gorgeous place, but apparently it is not really wise to hide in caves
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Happy Hannuka/Merry Christmas - 25.12.24
With this rare miracle of the confluence of dates, we have this amazing opportunity to celebrate both holidays together. But I don’t feel much like celebrating. I want to say humbug to both holidays and maybe bring back Festivus. The more we can find in common the better our lives can be.
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Christmas Eve in Magdala - 24.2.24
We went to the birthplace of Mary Magdalane, Magdala, today but it turned out that the chapel of Duc in Altem was closed for Christmas. It is a magnificent chapel and is meant to be a place of contemplation, but since it was closed we concentrated on the ancient synagogue they unearthed, the houses of the high priests, the drainage system, and all kinds of archeology.
The stone, that perfectly imitates the original temple, was made, our guide Sara said, by someone who was actually in that temple, so it has to be somewhere before or during the time of Jesus.
It’s really worth seeing:
https://www.magdala.org/
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