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Shalom! Continuing our journey in Israel, if you missed my earlier posts, check out Shalom! Israel. We spent our last evening in Israel at the Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall. The Western Wall is a large segment of the sustaining wall of the Western side of the Temple Mount from the time
Shalom! Continuing our journey in Israel, if you missed my earlier posts, check out Shalom! Israel. After our morning visit to Yad Vashem, we spent the afternoon at the Israel Museum. We spent most of our time at the Second Temple Model. The Jerusalem Second Temple Model built to a 1:50 scale, recreates the Second Temple
Shalom! Continuing our journey in Israel, if you missed my earlier posts, check out Shalom! Israel. The day before we flew back to Singapore, we spent the morning at Yad Vashem – The World Holocaust Remembrance Centre. Yad Vashem is established in 1953 as the Jewish people’s living memorial to the Holocaust, a genocide in which
Shalom! Continuing our journey in Israel, if you missed my earlier posts, check out Shalom! Israel. After our visit to City of David, our next stop is to The Jewish Quarter. From the 13th century to 1948, the quarter became the home of the rabbis and students at the Jewish religious seminaries, and elderly Jews
Shalom! Continuing our journey in Israel, if you missed my earlier posts, check out Shalom! Israel. After our visit at Temple Mount, we continued our tour at the ancient Jerusalem, City of David, a small hill located near the Western Wall and Temple Mount. More than 3,000 years ago, King David conquered the city from
Shalom! Continuing our journey in Israel, if you missed my earlier posts, check out Shalom! Israel. On our second morning in Jerusalem, we started the day at the Jerusalem Archaeological Park. At the feet of the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount, we climbed up the steps of the Hulda Gates that lead to the
Shalom! Continuing our journey in Israel, if you missed my earlier posts, check out Shalom! Israel. After our visit at The Garden Tomb, we made our way to Church of St Anne, our last stop for the day. This church was erected during the first half of the twelfth century and is among the longest preserved
Shalom! Continuing our journey in Israel, if you missed my earlier posts, check out Shalom! Israel. As mentioned in my earlier post Via Dolorosa , the Christian traditional site of Golgatha and the Tomb are within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. It is being disputed as the Church is inside the city walls of the
Shalom! Continuing our journey in Israel, if you missed my earlier posts, check out Shalom! Israel. After our visit to the Garden of Gethsemane, we made our way to the first station of the Via Dolorosa. The name “Via Dolorosa” or “Via Crucis” dates from the 16th century when a name was sought for the
