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Dan and Karen's Trip to Israel, February 2006
To celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary (actually March 8th), we joined a Bible tour of the land of Israel during February of 2006, and stayed a couple more days on our own. It was truly awesome to be in the land where so many prophesies have been fulfilled, including the simple reality that the nation of Israel exists at all - Zechariah prophesied that after the people would be scattered throughout the world (which was true for over 1800 years), God would gather them back to their homeland. Israel became a nation again in 1948, and the people are still being gathered, as Jewish immigrants come on a daily basis. No other nation has maintained their identity that long while scattered so wide. God truly keeps His promises!

Israel is a beautiful country, and seeing both places of historical events and the state of the nation today was inspiring and educational. Journey along with us through these images, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Photos

Day #1: Caesarea, Mt. Carmel, Megiddo, to Tiberias Thumbnails Slideshow
Day #2: Golan Heights, Nimrod's Fortress, Banias, Dan Thumbnails Slideshow
Day #3: Korazim, Capernaum, and around/across Sea of Galilee Thumbnails Slideshow
Day #4: Bet Shean, Ein Harod, Sachne Thumbnails Slideshow
Day #5: Excavations by the Temple Mount walls, Gihon Spring Thumbnails Slideshow
Day #6: Temple Mount, Western Wall, Museums Thumbnails Slideshow
Day #7: Masada, Ein Gedi, Dead Sea Thumbnails Slideshow
Day #8: Places of Passion Week Thumbnails Slideshow
Day #9: Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Temple Institute, Elah Valley, Shepherd's Field Thumbnails Slideshow
Day #10: "Tower of David" Citadel Thumbnails Slideshow
Day #11: Tel Aviv and Jaffa Thumbnails Slideshow

* Unless otherwise indicated, we took all the photos in the Photos section. If you would like a higher resolution copy of specific ones, contact us. A few that were downloaded from the Internet are indicated by "(INT)", and a few taken by our tour guide, Ronnie Simon, are indicated by "(RS)".

Video (=with audio; =video only)

Scenes at the Kotel (0:29)
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Fishermen on Lake Galilee 1 (0:12)
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Fishermen on Lake Galilee 2 (0:38)
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Bet Shean Tel and Theater (0:20)
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Jerusalem Overview (0:55)
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre (0:33)
View from above, entrance, Greek Orthodox
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Street Musicians (0:32)
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Animals in Israel (0:40)
A camel, an ibex, a boy with his kid goat,
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Our Guide Ronny Simon (0:21)
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Baptism at Yardenit (3:56)
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* All video footage was taken by Karen.

Other

Karen's "Trip Report": images from a Powerpoint presentation including maps to show where we visited, Bible verses that relate to some of the sites, and other information (some of the labels are in English and Japanese, others are English only). It was designed to be presented live with a narrator, so not every slide has an explanation and the explanations are not necessarily complete, but what is there may be helpful for understanding the significance of the sites.

(I didn't include the actual Powerpoint file due to its size, at 28MB.)

* A few images in the "Trip Report" presentation were scanned from maps or downloaded from the Internet, but at a low enough resolution that hopefully no one will mind. If you know of a copyright issue regarding this type of usage of any of the images, please contact us and we will remove the image.
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