Gai Beach Tiberias

... including one brother who had moved to LA. I&#8217;m not sure the underling story he was trying to convey but will need to read up and see if I can understand better. <br><br>After lunch we stopped on the roadside and took a wade in a wind driven Sea of Galilee and stopped at Kursi in time to find out it was closing. We headed back to completely circumvent the lake and took a nap at the hotel. Sarah ...

... the cacaphony of the market was ever-present. We bought our own fixings for a picnic dinner, and proceded to enjoy our last night in Jerusalem, a city without equal. <br><br>After Jerusalem, our trip will be taking a whole different spin, as we leave the days of public transit, the trains, and the buses for the air-conditioned (ahh!) comfort of 4 wheels. We decided to rent a car to visit the northern part of Israel, comprising the Mediteranean coast from Tel ...

... blown up by the Israelis in 1948 to block Lebanese invaders during the War of Independence), and we headed back up to the car, taking the seaside route into Haifa, Israel's main port city, on Mt. Carmel. <br><br>If ever I were to move to Israel, I always thought I might like to live in Haifa. I've never gotten to spend as much time here as I'd like. It seems like a down-to-earth place with a better climate than Tel Aviv (hot, humid) or ...

... the Kinneret" in Hebrew), a blue respite from the oppressive heat, even if only to look at. The road through Tiberias was lined with hotels on the water, but on the other side of town, we found our lodging, the YMCA. Believe it or not, it's a lovely, quiet, lush place, no gym in sight, on the edge of the Kinneret, a few buildings spread among the grounds, including a chapel, connected by stone paths. (Check out the pictures here.) Our room was simple but ...

... south. Except for when we went out to the Barbarossa bar on Friday night, my friend and I essentially got the special 'tour' of Haifa from our hosts, rainy weather or not. To start, while they were closed for some unknown reason, we got to see the Bahaii Gardens from both the above and below avenues. Essentially, the Bahaii Shrine stands a little bit up the mountain, with the gardens stretching down in front of it all the way until the streets at sea level. The ...

... most of their lives in Israel, it must be difficult to sink in the fact that lives in the diaspora are very happy and comfortable, and that my Jewishness doesn't dominate my life in the way it does to many Israelis. Although I've had a great time in Israel so far, the only place I'd consider moving to is London, and even then only temporarily. Israel does a great job at settling in its immigrants, including generous financial ...

... Gunner; take him to a beach, a pool, and to a dog park. Another thing we really got a kick out of were the lifeguards. They would call out on their loudspeakers whenever someone would be out of bounds or do some other no-no. They always start off with Gever (Man) or Giveret (Lady) or Yeled (Child) &amp; continue their instructions. It struck us as very funny, since in NY lifeguards have whistles &amp; use hand movements. After a while, we went into the ...

... into the parking lot of the National Park installation. The Israeli Park Service buildings were originally constructed by the Chicago Archeological Expedition to Megiddo in the 1920s (more on that later). We file off the busses and start the walk up and around the artificial hill, created by human activity over thousands of years of habitation, construction, and reconstruction. Though our Youth Corps group members are rooming together, we have been assigned to ...

... autonomous city by Pompey. After being for some time in the possession of Cleopatra, ruler of Egypt, it was returned by Augustus to Herod. Once the site of a Phoenician port, over the course of 12 years Herod built Caesarea into the grandest city other than Jerusalem in Palestine, with a deep sea harbor aqueduct, hippodrome ...