Every minute of our stay in Israel was planned and our itinerary organized by my incredibly able and hard working cousin Malka. With a dozen or more overseas relatives on her hands, she put together tours and drives and guides all over northern Israel and we didn't have a moment to spare. From a Druse village where we met a remarkable woman known as Safta (Grandma) Gamila who started a successful international soap business in spite of being virtually illiterate, to the tomb of a Moslem holy man where supplicants come to petition for good health for themselves and their families.
From a picnic at the cave where a 2nd century Jewish holy man is said to have hidden from the Romans for 12 years eating nothing but carobs from the tree still growing at the cave mouth to a view of the Galilee from the Golan Heights, to a great dinner in a remarkable little restaurant sitting just meters from the Jordanian frontier, and finally to a sound and light show at the stunningly preserved ruins of Beit She'an, we saw it all and had a good time doing it. And that was only Saturday.
Every minute of our stay in Israel was planned and our itinerary organized by my incredibly able and hard working cousin Malka. With a dozen or more overseas relatives on her hands, she put together tours and drives and guides all over northern Israel and we didn't have a moment to spare. From a Druse village where we met a remarkable woman known as Safta (Grandma) Gamila who started a successful international soap business in spite of being virtually illiterate, to the tomb of a Moslem holy man where supplicants come to petition for good health for themselves and their families.
From a picnic at the cave where a 2nd century Jewish holy man is said to have hidden from the Romans for 12 years eating nothing but carobs from the tree still growing at the cave mouth to a view of the Galilee from the Golan Heights, to a great dinner in a remarkable little restaurant sitting just meters from the Jordanian frontier, and finally to a sound and light show at the stunningly preserved ruins of Beit She'an, we saw it all and had a good time doing it. And that was only Saturday.
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