Tabgha & the Mount of the Beatitudes photos 1998

Israel

Israel facts & history in brief

The State of Israel, a republic was declared 1948 and occupies more or less the Promised Land, the Bible Lands, the Holy Land and many other names to many people.
Bordered by Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the Red Sea, Egypt the Mediterranean Sea.
Now includes East Jerusalem, part of the West Bank, the Golan Heights and the Gaza Strip, since Israel captured them in the Six-Day War in 1967.
Israel also captured the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, but returned it since in 1982, and granted Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank in 1994, after a peace agreement between Israel and Palestinian Liberation Organisation.
Geographically it can be divided into the areas of the hills of Galilee, the Plain of Esdraelon, the Judaean and Samarian hills, the coastal plains, and the Negev.

Israel has a population of over 5 million.
The capital is Jerusalem.
The history, tradition and the struggle of the land and its people is the Bible for many people.
The "Promised Land" "of milk and honey", was more recently discovered to be barren and infertile, that has many mineral, agricultural and human resources.
As in the Bible and in the middle ages during the crusades the 'Land of Peace' is in a bit of a turmoil.

Hui Chin, Endre and I crossed over from Jordan by the Allenby Bridge.

We begin our explorations with Jericho before we visited Jerusalem, New Jerusalem, the Mount of Olives, Bethlehem, Tiberias, Nazareth, Tabigha, Qumran, Masada, Beit Haarava and Eilat.

Tabgha & the Mount of the Beatitudes

the New Testament's three most significant chapters, the Sermon on the Mount, the Multiplication of the Loaves & Fishes, and Jesus' post-Resurrection appearance, conferring the church leadership on Peter happened here.
A very beautiful and serene Christian holy place.
Tabgha is the Arab name for Seven Springs given to the small valley.
A side road runs off to the right through the valley and Capernaum and right around the lake of Galilee.

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