Mike Levitt
Nov 30, 2019
The Garden of Ridván (גן רידוואן) (حديقة الرضوان)
The Garden of Ridván is one of the Bahá'í holy places in Israel, situated just outside Akko (Acre). In 1875, `Abdu'l-Bahá, who later...
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Mike Levitt
Nov 1, 2019
Rakevet HaEmek
One damp, slightly rainy Friday (the first rain of autumn), Yonatan and I explored some of the western stations of the...
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Mike Levitt
Sep 20, 2019
The Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum at the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel
Dr Reuben Hecht (1909-1993) was born in Antwerp, Belgium, to Jacob and Ella Hecht, where his father and uncle, Herman, founded the Neptun...
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Mike Levitt
Jul 30, 2019
Route 90 Roadtrip―Gilgal (גלגל)
As part of a Route 90 roadtrip in 2016, and again in spring 2017, and on several other occasions, I had tried to find Gilgal. And I am...
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Mike Levitt
Jul 21, 2019
Motsa (מוצא)
Motsa is today located in an ancient site, in and around the fertile valley of the Sorek Stream and its tributary, the Arza stream....
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Mike Levitt
Jul 16, 2019
Tel Tzova, Belmont, Suba, Ein Tzova & the Cave of John the Baptist
Today I had to drop Yonatan at the airport very early, so that by 7 am I was already back on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Since at that...
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Mike Levitt
Apr 19, 2019
The Church of the Beatitudes
Surrounded by gardens amid the natural beauty of the Galilee, and overlooking the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), the Church of the Beatitudes...
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Mike Levitt
Apr 12, 2019
Horvat Minim, Tel Kinneret & Ein-Te'ena
The monumental eastern gateway to the palace at Khirbat al-Minya In the second half of the 19th century, Charles William Wilson and other...
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Mike Levitt
Apr 12, 2019
Villa Melchett (וילה מלצ'ט)
Villa Melchett, east (lake) front Israel is not known for its country estates and mansions. Having languished as an Ottoman backwater...
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Mike Levitt
Mar 22, 2019
Shfar'am (שפרעם, شفاعمرو), Usha (אושא, هوشة) & the Sanhedrin
The Sanhedrin were assemblies of judges appointed to sit as a tribunal in every city in the Land of Israel. Whereas each city had...
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