Mike Levitt
Dec 7, 2014
Shefer (שפר), Paradia Tegart Fort (מצודות טגארט פרדייה) and Hemdat Yamim (חמדת ימים)
Shefer was founded as a moshav in 1950 for immigrants from Yemen. After the founders abandoned it, a new moshav was founded in the same...
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Mike Levitt
Dec 7, 2014
Graves of Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha “Ba’al HaBaraita” (רבי ישמעאל בעל הברייתא), Rabbi Nehemiah Hamso
Kibbutz Parod (or Farod), like its neighbour, moshav Shefer, is built on the site of ancient Parod, also known as Paradia and,...
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Mike Levitt
Dec 1, 2014
Ancient Yehudiya (יהודיה) and the 7th Armoured Brigade (חטיבה שבע) Memorial.
On the way up into the Golan Heights last Friday, travelling along route 87, which follows Nahal Yehudiya, we first espied on our right...
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Mike Levitt
Dec 1, 2014
Rasm Harbush (ראסם חרבוש)
On the way back from Gilgal Refaim, we stopped to take a photograph of Yonatan beneath the sign to the Golan moshav of that name, and...
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Mike Levitt
Nov 30, 2014
Gilgal Refaim (גִּלְגַּל רְפָאִים) or Rujm el-Hiri (رجم الهري)
On Friday we visited what some people believe is the grave of King Og, mentioned many times in the tanach, who was one of the last...
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Mike Levitt
Nov 24, 2014
Grave of Rabbi Nachum Ish Gamzu (קבר ר' נחום איש גמזו)
Having half an hour to spare today in Tzfat (Safed), I went to investigate the grave of Rabbi Nachum Ish Gamzu which, oddly enough, is...
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Mike Levitt
Nov 23, 2014
Island of Peace (Naharayim) & Gesher - אי השלום (נהריים) וגשר
There are three bridges dating from different eras at Old Gesher. This one is from the Roman Byzantine period. (Photo: Wikimedia...
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Mike Levitt
Nov 12, 2014
Etgar - אתגר
If, like me yesterday, you have a few minutes to spare waiting for your child to finish in the Misgav School, you could do worse than...
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Mike Levitt
Nov 12, 2014
Former Hadassah hospital for tuberculars, Tzfat
Up until 1910, Jewish residents could only receive advanced medical treatment in Tzfat at the Scottish Hospital, built by missionaries,...
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Mike Levitt
Oct 29, 2014
Grave of Rabbi Hamnuna Sabba, near Meron - קבר של רבי המנונא סבא, ליד מירון
Driving back from Tsfat with Amber, having bought ice cream at Meiron, we stopped in the car park at the bend in the road at Nahal Meiron...
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