Arrived at Tel Aviv. First day on the Mediterranean Sea at Hotel Netanya.
Ancient Roman Aqueduct supplying water to Caesarea by the sea.
Statue of Elijah at the Carmelite Monastery
A look into the Jezreel Valley from atop the Carmelite Monastery.
View near the Northern Palace at Megiddo
Stables of Megiddo ruins
Hazor National Park. More than 20 cities were discovered here dating from the 3rd millennium BCE to the city’s destruction by the Assyrian King Tiglath-Pileset in 732 BCE.
Israelite Tower / Citadel built to protect Hazor from the Assyrian invasion. It overlooked the western flank.
Tel Dan Springs
Wading pool of the Dan which is a headwater of the Jordan River.
Excavations at Dan / Temple - days of Jeroboam. Site associated with one of the two the Golden Calves.
City Arch Gate at Dan (1 of 3).
Banias Springs - Site of the Confession of Peter
Headwaters at Caesarea Phillipi. Also rumored to be the gate of the underworld.
Remnants of Temple of Pan
Joop de Jong sculpture made from military remnants at Mt. Bental Nature Reserve.
Israeli outpost on Mt. Bental (extinct volcano). Overlooks into Syria.
Tapestries and Pottery
Basins and Wine Jars?
Representative sandals from the period
Olive Press tools
Outside Church of the Beatitudes
Church of the Beatitudes
Inside Church of the Beatitudes
Fish and Loaf Garden
Zizyphus Spina-cristi Tree (Thorns of Christ)
Wine growers house at Chorazin
Remains of St Peter’s house in Capharnaum
Temple remains
Statue of St. Peter
Peacock Mosaic