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... Karmel und Chof Habonim
Am Mitwoch war dann auch schon d** letzte Israeltag vor d** Rückreise und wir mieteten ein Auto bei ein** kleinen arabischen Company (Hagar) im deutschen Quarti** unt**halb d** Bahaigärten. Mit diesem Auto fuhren wir dann qu** durch Haifa bis zur Univ**sität, wo d** Nationalpark Karmel beginnt. Dort gibt es eine wund**schöne Aussicht durch die "Wäld**" (sind eh** Gebüsche) bis an das Me**. Auf ein** gewundenen Strasse fährt man durch Osfiya (ein kleines ...

... 1497; לילי בצפון העיר

... agaınst the whıte lımestone clıffs, havıng a symphonıc effect, as they echoed through the grottos. We were ın no rush to leave and savoured the natural sound and lıght show. As romantıc as a Viagra commercial (though I hope you don't get the wrong image from this description.)

We left headıng back down the coast to Caesaria, the sıte of a large excavatıon of the remaıns of a ancient cı ...

... one structure providing shade. We walked among the multitudes who were dancing, sitting, swimming, hanging out... taking pictures and people-watching, and we soaked it in from back at the plaza, where we relaxed over beers. We decided that we could not bring ourselves to go to the big party that night (starting at the relatively early hour of 11 p.m.) after all, so we had a nice, quiet, late dinner on Dizengoff and looked back on a memorable day.

... of the rubber ball on the paddles. Five and a half hours flew by, and so we got a bit burned, but it was a much needed rest. Hopped a cab back to the Jaffa hostel to clean up and rest.

We picked up some sweets at Aboulafia's, a well known Jaffa bakery, to take to dinner at our friends Malka and Dror's apartment, a big place on a quiet street in downtown Tel Aviv, where we had a nice time talking, having dinner, and being entertained by their ...

... is, in fact, possible. However, they still have some not-so-minor problems -- mainly that all government/community activities take place in Hebrew, which gives the Jewish members of the community a sense of power of the Arab community.





















One of the kids in the community refused to fulfill his obligatory Israeli military service ...

... flying over the Dead Sea we flew over this very peculiar part of the desert. They were like small hills/valleys that were brown coloursed bu also had these various patterns that the left over sal made as the Dead Sea was drying up. The patters and coloures made the view exquisite. Nothing like I've ever seen before, or Borik for that matter. We then flew over to The Masada and decided to go to theh top and take a tour of it. The Masada itself was an entire ...

... concerns...  they all decided to stay the course throughout the entire gut wrenching of events that continued for weeks... Many of my coworkers and students throughout the school were concerned about the safety... The "war" ended and parents and students felt a bit of ease about continuing our trip... until... Turkey's political leaderhip felt insulted by Israel, with words of anger, blame and shame being thrown around on the world stage... exacerbated by the media of course ...

... while, until I reached Al-Quds and found a place to stay there with Internet available.A quick outlook on the plans I made yesterday and today: for Christmas eve, maybe I will take the trip down to Bethlehem - since I am around anyways, it is a good opportunity to visit. And what better time of the year there is for doing so? (Except, of course, the place will be crowded and probably no accommodation available, but hey, that sounds familiar somehow, doesn't it? ;-)

... ate the hummus, Joy tasted a bit of that & quiche & Sarah pretty much ate bread. We prepared for bed, and found that the suitcase we thought missing with Joy's clothing, was really the suitcases with the gifts for people. So everyone got into p.j.s and went to bed. Then Tal's aunt, Yudit, came into the house at 12:30 AM & ate. She was very nice & very warm. She worked late last night & tonight because she works for the Mashbir Lezorchech store, which ...