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Israel July 2011 Part II
Jan. 19th, 2012 10:01 pmPart I
I believe it was the next day when Dana's friend, Eitan (Who I met in Japan when he visited) offered to take me on a bike tour of Tel Aviv. The tour was very fun, though it was so hot that day. We checked out several outdoor markets and then went to the Tel-Aviv history museum, which also happened to be the former City Hall. Tel Aviv is a realatively new city created just after the turn of the 20th century. Unlike the historic town of Jaffa located south, Tel Eviv was originally a Jewish settlement . I found it really interesting when they had pictures of its original citizens, they were dressed like Arabs, but Eitan said they were Jews and just dressed as people of the region did.
From now on, this was not exactly be in chronological order as I'm writing this 6 months in the future.
I had a Russian day-tour of Jerusalem. My aunt helped me organize it through her friend who worked at the travel agency. It was called "Jerusalem: The 3 Religions" but I don't think we really touch the Islamic quarter. We then saw several sites in the Jewish and Cristian quarters. We first went to Mount of Olives, a places where Jesus apparently ascended into the heavens and finally to the possible most holiest place in Christianity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Christ was crucified and buried . We also had some lovely panoramic views of Jerusalem.
We went to several biblical locations including where Christ had his last supper. In the Jewish quarter, we went to the Western (Wailing) wall where the Jews wailed because their second temple was destroyed. This section of Jerusalem was only returned to them in the 1965 war. It originally belonged to Jordan. Soldiers remember this being a very emotional moment. They also had to fix the wall which had a toilet attached to it.
It was either the day before or the day after that when Dand and I went ot Jerusalem to visit Yad Voshem- the Holocaust memorial and famous Israeli leaders memorial. We saw the graves of Hertzel, considered to be the founder of the modern state of Israel, and Rabin, the Prime Minister who was shot in the 90s. When I was with Eitan, he showed me the exact location where he was assassinated in Tel Aviv. The steps of him, his body guarders, and the shooter were traced out on the pavement.
The Holocaust Museum was very sad, but educational. It talked about the various events leading up to the genocide and how it was shaped throughout Europe. It included videos of a lot of personal accounts of the people who survived it. This was a project done by Steven Spielberg around the time he was filming "Schindler's List".
Afterwards, we met up with a friend of hers and went to the Museum Israel. We saw the Dead Seas Scrolls, what it's most famous for, and didn't have much time to see the rest of the museum so we checked out the "Synagogs of the World" exhibit and then some other exhibits on Jewish culture, like their menorah collection.
On another day, Yulia asked her boyfriend, Nachman, to take me sight-seeing in some places up north. We went to see the Bahai'i. We went to see the Bahai'i Temple & Gardens in Haifa. My grandfather apparently used to live in Haifa before he came to the US. Bahai'i is a religion that originated in that area. It is a peaceful religion that argues for equality among the sexes and races. I believe the founder was prosecuted and killed, but another leader traveled throughout the Middle East teaching others about Bahai'. It's the world's most quickly-growing religion and has one million followers. The gardens are maintained by volunteers from all over the world who come there to learn about Bahai'i and tend the landscape.
After that, we went to the ruins of Caesarea from a time when the land was a part of the Roman Empire. Caesarea, dedicated to Emperor Caesar, was a thriving, advanced city with running water. You could see the remnants of many structures including storage rooms, pillars, and even toilets. I loved exploring it all.
I done up my pictures very nicely! http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v326/MajesticArcanine/Israel%20July%202011/ . Though when scrolling between the pictures, you have to wait several seconds for the pics to load, or else it freezes and you have to refresh your browser:(. But actually there is a slideshow mode where it doesn't do that - http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v326/MajesticArcanine/Israel%20July%202011/?albumview=slideshow
I believe it was the next day when Dana's friend, Eitan (Who I met in Japan when he visited) offered to take me on a bike tour of Tel Aviv. The tour was very fun, though it was so hot that day. We checked out several outdoor markets and then went to the Tel-Aviv history museum, which also happened to be the former City Hall. Tel Aviv is a realatively new city created just after the turn of the 20th century. Unlike the historic town of Jaffa located south, Tel Eviv was originally a Jewish settlement . I found it really interesting when they had pictures of its original citizens, they were dressed like Arabs, but Eitan said they were Jews and just dressed as people of the region did.
From now on, this was not exactly be in chronological order as I'm writing this 6 months in the future.
I had a Russian day-tour of Jerusalem. My aunt helped me organize it through her friend who worked at the travel agency. It was called "Jerusalem: The 3 Religions" but I don't think we really touch the Islamic quarter. We then saw several sites in the Jewish and Cristian quarters. We first went to Mount of Olives, a places where Jesus apparently ascended into the heavens and finally to the possible most holiest place in Christianity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Christ was crucified and buried . We also had some lovely panoramic views of Jerusalem.
We went to several biblical locations including where Christ had his last supper. In the Jewish quarter, we went to the Western (Wailing) wall where the Jews wailed because their second temple was destroyed. This section of Jerusalem was only returned to them in the 1965 war. It originally belonged to Jordan. Soldiers remember this being a very emotional moment. They also had to fix the wall which had a toilet attached to it.
It was either the day before or the day after that when Dand and I went ot Jerusalem to visit Yad Voshem- the Holocaust memorial and famous Israeli leaders memorial. We saw the graves of Hertzel, considered to be the founder of the modern state of Israel, and Rabin, the Prime Minister who was shot in the 90s. When I was with Eitan, he showed me the exact location where he was assassinated in Tel Aviv. The steps of him, his body guarders, and the shooter were traced out on the pavement.
The Holocaust Museum was very sad, but educational. It talked about the various events leading up to the genocide and how it was shaped throughout Europe. It included videos of a lot of personal accounts of the people who survived it. This was a project done by Steven Spielberg around the time he was filming "Schindler's List".
Afterwards, we met up with a friend of hers and went to the Museum Israel. We saw the Dead Seas Scrolls, what it's most famous for, and didn't have much time to see the rest of the museum so we checked out the "Synagogs of the World" exhibit and then some other exhibits on Jewish culture, like their menorah collection.
On another day, Yulia asked her boyfriend, Nachman, to take me sight-seeing in some places up north. We went to see the Bahai'i. We went to see the Bahai'i Temple & Gardens in Haifa. My grandfather apparently used to live in Haifa before he came to the US. Bahai'i is a religion that originated in that area. It is a peaceful religion that argues for equality among the sexes and races. I believe the founder was prosecuted and killed, but another leader traveled throughout the Middle East teaching others about Bahai'. It's the world's most quickly-growing religion and has one million followers. The gardens are maintained by volunteers from all over the world who come there to learn about Bahai'i and tend the landscape.
After that, we went to the ruins of Caesarea from a time when the land was a part of the Roman Empire. Caesarea, dedicated to Emperor Caesar, was a thriving, advanced city with running water. You could see the remnants of many structures including storage rooms, pillars, and even toilets. I loved exploring it all.
I done up my pictures very nicely! http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v326/MajesticArcanine/Israel%20July%202011/ . Though when scrolling between the pictures, you have to wait several seconds for the pics to load, or else it freezes and you have to refresh your browser:(. But actually there is a slideshow mode where it doesn't do that - http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v326/MajesticArcanine/Israel%20July%202011/?albumview=slideshow
