Israel

Tel Aviv is defiantly tranquil.  Despite the fact that they are the closest target for radical Hamas terrorists on the Gaza Strip, people who live here seem to brush off violence and go on with [...]

Israel is so different from other countries.  History and politics and religion are woven into a tight knot here, not necessarily in a good way.

Yad Vashem means "a monument and a name" in Hebrew.  No cemeteries, no headstones, no traces were left to mark the loss of the six million Holocaust victims.  This is Israel's remembrance. The most graphic [...]

Herod was called “the Great” because he was a great builder.  His two masterpieces were Masada and the Herodium.  Masada is a natural mountain stronghold on the southwestern shores of the Dead Sea, rising 1,300 [...]

The Dead Sea is not a sea, but a big salt lake. The Sea of Galilee is not a sea, but another big salt lake.  Why the confusion?  Incorrect translation strikes again!  Both are connected [...]

Oh, little town of Bethlehem, a city in the West Bank under Palestinian Authority control.  Israelis are not allowed in the boundaries of its West Bank Area A designation.   In the midst of this turmoil [...]

The Temple Mount is beloved in Judaism as the spot where God gathered the dust used to create Adam, beloved in Islam as the spot where Mohammed ascended into heaven, and in Christianity as the [...]