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After Masada we made the trip back thru the West Bank to Tel Aviv. Liz is this our right? In Tel Aviv we caught up Liz’s cousins Cynthia and Moshe Cohen who in addition to taking us to lunch introduced … Continue reading →

Well we woke up at 4 in the morning (that’s AM) to hike up Masada. We took the Snake Path up. It was pretty brutal and the second most challenging hike that we did. (A lot of that has to … Continue reading →

Happy Independance Day! Although Liz begged me not to and Liz’s father told her not to, I convinced Liz to travel past Ramalah thru the West Bank. I mean Steven said it was OK and so did the very nice … Continue reading →

7/2/08 We started our tour of Jerusalem with Yad Vashem (the Holocaust Museum).   This was a last-minute change from our original plan, but it worked in our favor as otherwise we would have been right in the path of the … Continue reading →

Arguably the most challenging hike we would do let me give you an excerpt from our guide book. ‘a challenging trail designed for competent hikers and swimmers and definitely not for those with vertigo (like Liz)…Slightly further on you’ll reach … Continue reading →

We got an early start the next day for our first of three major hikes in Israel, Banias Falls. By all accounts it was the easiest of the three we would do and took us a fraction of the time … Continue reading →

Early start Saturday morning… We had to get thru the fort city of Acre (Akko), the grotto at Rosh Hanikra, the ‘mystic’ city of Tsfat before finally getting to El Hagoshrim Kibbutz were we get to spend 2 nights. Akko … Continue reading →

4 hours on the tarmac, a 12 hour flight, another hour in the car and we finally made it to the first destination of our Israel Teen Tour ’94 on Shabbat, June 28, 2008. Unfortunately we are only able to … Continue reading →