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20/02/2023

Praying at the pools of Bethesda in old Jerusalem

04/04/2022

Archaeologists working on the site of an early Christian church near the Sea of Galilee have unearthed a mosaic depicting five loaves of bread and two fish.

21/12/2021

At Friends Tours and Travel we are so excited to celebrate Christmas! 🎄 What are your favorite Christmas traditions?

29/11/2021

The events that inspired the Hanukkah holiday took place during a particularly turbulent phase of Jewish history. Around 200 B.C.
Judea—also known as the Land of Israel—came under the control of Antiochus III, the Seleucid king of Syria, who allowed the Jews who lived there to continue practicing their religion.
His son, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, proved less benevolent: Ancient sources recount that he outlawed the Jewish religion and ordered the Jews to worship Greek gods.
In 168 B.C. his soldiers descended upon Jerusalem, massacring thousands of people and desecrating the city’s holy Second Temple by erecting an altar to Zeus and sacrificing pigs within its sacred walls.
Led by the Jewish priest Mattathias and his five sons, a large-scale rebellion broke out against Antiochus and the Seleucid monarchy. When Matthathias died in 166 B.C., his son Judah, known as Judah Maccabee, took the helm; within two years the Jews had successfully driven the Syrians out of Jerusalem, relying largely on guerilla warfare tactics.
Judah called on his followers to cleanse the Second Temple, rebuild its altar and light its menorah—the gold candelabrum whose seven branches represented knowledge and creation and were meant to be kept burning every night.
According to the Talmud, one of Judaism’s most central texts, Judah Maccabee and the other Jews who took part in the rededication of the Second Temple witnessed what they believed to be a miracle. Even though there was only enough untainted olive oil to keep the menorah’s candles burning for a single day, the flames continued flickering for eight nights, leaving them time to find a fresh supply.

01/11/2021

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26/09/2021

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16/09/2021

Nabi Samuel National Park

🔰Located 8km west of Jerusalem.
🔰The name of the hill here is Mount of Joy because this is the place where the Crusaders saw the city for the first time in the 11th century.

✅Prophet Samuel was born and died at Ramah and according to Tradition this is Ramah from the Old Testament.

✅One of the few places in the country where we have a Synagogue, Church and a Mosque built one on top of the other.

✅Today both the Synagogue and the Mosque are active and you can see a good friendship between the Cousins here.

You can see remains from:
❗Persian period
❗Hellenistic period
❗Byzantine period
❗Muslim period
❗Crusaders period
❗Mammluk period
❗Ottoman empire

10/09/2021

Rosh Pina 

🔰is a small city neighbouring Safed that, along with the ancient city of Hazor, comprise a tri-city feature.
🔰Filled with rich history, beautiful buildings, and lovely scenery and today, light industry and tourism. 🔰The youngest of the three cities, Rosh Pina was founded in the later half of the 19th century by Baron Rothschild, governing the local British rule.
🔰He built a synagogue first and then orchestrated the building of the houses and schools that is now the old, quaint neighbourhood of Rosh Pina.

09/09/2021

Caesarea Martima

🔰A city built by King Herod the Great between 25-13BC to show his loyalty to the new emperor
Octavian (which was later given the title Agustus)
🔰A city with theaters, hippodromes and the 2nd biggest port in the Roman Empire
🔰Aftre his death it became under the control of his son Herod Archealous

2 important events in the bible took place here:
❗Acts 10 - the baptism of Cornelius (the first gentile)
❗Acts 23-25 Paul was imprisoned here before he appealed to Caesar

30/08/2021

On the Mount of the Beatitudes where we commemorate the Sermon on the Mount
(Matthew 5-7).

29/08/2021

The Church of Multiplication aka Tabgha

❗Located on the northern shore of the Sea if Galilee
❗The church is located in the valley of the Seven Springs (70% of the waters of the sea of Galilee is from the Jordan river while 30% is from springs and rain water)
❗the water was worm and attracted fish so you can say this was one of the favorite places for fishermen (most of the disciples were fishermen, 3 miracles were related to fish)
❗So what happened here?
The feeding of the 5000 with 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread
❗This miracle is mentioned in the 4 gospel

28/08/2021

Magdala or Migdal
🔰A town from the 2nd Temple Period (time of Jesus) that protected the Via Maris (the international highway that connected Egypt and Mesopotamia) the word Migdal in Hebrew means a tower. Streets, port, synagogue markets from the time of Jesus were found during the excavations of the site
🔰A very important figure came from Migdal, Mary Magdalene or Mary of Magdala. She is mentioned 12 times in the scripture, more than any of the deciples and the first to witness the resurrection of our lord
🔰The city witnessed the only naval battle during the great revold (66-73AD)
Scripture:
🔰The Gospel of Luke 8:2–3 lists Mary as one of the women who traveled with Jesus and helped support his ministry "out of their resources", indicating that she was probably relatively wealthy. The same passage also states that seven demons had been driven out of her, a statement which is repeated in the longer ending of Mark.

27/08/2021

🔰Capernaum - the town of Jesus🔰

✔ Capernaum means the house of Comfort
✔Peter, Andrew, John, James and Matthew came from this town
✔Located on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee on the Via Maris (international highway)
✔Their main income was from: Taxes, fishing, trade and agriculture.

09/08/2021

HI HI
I booked a tour for 3 days to visit a secret site that was built during the Soviet Union and was monitoring the Airspace of different parts in Europe and down to Turkey.
when i got to the top of the mountain i was impressed by the 5 white domes that were protecting the radars that used to send messages to Lviv, Kyiv and from the capital of Ukraine today the info was sent to Moscow

It was built in the 1960's and functioned till the 1990's and then it was dismantled.

Till our day today we don't have a lot of information about this place.

HI HII booked a tour for 3 days to visit a secret site that was built during the Soviet Union and was monitoring the Airspace of different parts in Europe an...

25/07/2021

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Caesarea by the Sea was one of the most important cities in antiquity and is one of the most visited archeological sites we have in the country..... in taday's video i will take you to the aqueducts that were built by K. Herod the Great and were used later in different periods to bring water to the city.
Was it used during the Byzantine period? Check this out in the video

HI HICaesarea by the Sea was one of the most important cities in antiquity and is one of the most visited archeological sites we have in the country..... in ...

08/07/2021

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One of the highlights of any trip to any country in the middle east is FOOD. in this video we will take you to the old city of Jerusalem and show you what and where locals eat.
some of the food that we tried on this tour is Hummus with Falafel and the Jerusalem Begal
we had Kunafe for dessert and ended the day with the tastiest Kebab in Town.

https://youtu.be/3eAqZ5ctEXE

Hi Hi One of the highlights of any trip to any country in the middle east is FOOD. in this video we will take you to the old city of Jerusalem and show you w...