Mike Levitt
Apr 16, 2017
Tel Shikmona - תל שקמונה (Tel a-Samakh, Sycaminos, Šiqmônah)
Partial Greek mosaic inscription, Byzantine monastery complex, Shikmona I never know whether it delights or infuriates me that there is...
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Mike Levitt
Apr 13, 2017
Me'arat HaYonim (מערת היונים, Pigeon or Dove Cave)
Inside the central of the three HaYonim Caves. The HaYonim Caves are located in a limestone bluff about 250 meters above sea level, on...
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Mike Levitt
Apr 3, 2017
Maresha (Tel Maresha, Marissa, Tell Sandahanna) & Bet Guvrin (Eleutheropolis, Bayt Jibrin, Bethg
The Columbarium cave, so-called because its walls feature over 2,000 high-quality designed and carefully carved niches. The raising of...
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Mike Levitt
Mar 29, 2017
Susita (סוסיתא) – Hippos (Ἵππος) – Kulat el-Husn
Susita sits on a flat-topped foothill 2 kilometres east of and 350 metres above the Sea of Galilee, 144 metres above sea level, near...
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Mike Levitt
Mar 23, 2017
Avdat - עבדת - عبدة
Situated on and around an acropolis on a ridge over the Negev desert, Avdat, now ruined, was the most important Nabataean city on the...
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Mike Levitt
Mar 22, 2017
Route 90 Road trip - טיול בכביש 90 - Arava (הערבה) - Timna (תמנה) - Eilat (אילת) - Eilat Mountain
Carrying on south on route 90 from Tamar, we travelled through the multi-coloured Arava desert, stopping briefly at Yotvata, a kibbutz...
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Mike Levitt
Mar 21, 2017
Route 90 Road trip - טיול בכביש 90 - Dead Sea - Ein Bokek - Lot's wife - Ancient Tamar
Ein Bokek is a modern hotel and resort complex on the shore of the Dead Sea, offering various types of spas and Dead Sea health...
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Mike Levitt
Mar 21, 2017
Route 90 Road trip - טיול בכביש 90 - Dead Sea & En Gedi
Yonatan, Riva and I spent four days in high summer last year on a trip south which, though concentrating on the Arava from the Dead sea...
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Mike Levitt
Mar 14, 2017
Route 90 Road trip - טיול בכביש 90 - Gesher & Naharayim - גשר ונהריים
These two places are intimately connected in a story of power - both political and hydro-electrical - which for a time transcended...
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