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Haifa
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Downtown Haifa and the Baha'i Gardens
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The port city of Haifa
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The Baha'i Gardens and Shrine
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The Baha'i Shrine
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It's a little sunny...Mom, Dad, and me in the Baha'i Gardens
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View of Haifa and the Baha'i Gardens
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The port of Haifa, and Naharia and Akko across the bay
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The Baha'i Shrine and the straight line across the bay to Akko
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At the Baha'i Gardens
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Baha'i Gardens
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In the Baha'i Gardens overlooking the Shrine
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The Hall of Justice at the Baha'i Gardens
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Baha'i Gardens
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Baha'i Gardens
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Holiday of the Holidays in Haifa...this year's theme is black coffee (particularly appropriate is "Addicted to Coffee")
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The black stains from October 2000 when the Intifada began
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A view of the Galil from the Muhraka, a Carmelite monastery
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Me, Dad, and Mom overlooking the Galil from Muhraka, a Carmelite monastery
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Ordering some fresh pita in the Druze village of Daliat El Karmel
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The beaches of Haifa
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The beaches of Haifa
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Inside the Church of Annunciation and Mary's Well in Nazareth
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Mary's Well contains water that has the power of healing
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Church of Annunciation and Mary's Well in Nazareth
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Modern-day Nazareth
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Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth
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Outside the Basilica of Annunciation in Nazareth
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Bronze doors depicting events in Jesus's life at the site of Mary's home in Nazareth
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Basilica of Annunciation
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Two different depictions of the Virgin Mary...Spain on the left, and China on the right
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Mass at the Basilica of the Annunciation, Mary's home and the spot where Gabriel announced the birth of Jesus
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A rare depiction of the Holy Trinity in art (note the eye above Jesus)
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Australia's contribution to the murals at the Basilica of Annunication
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A mikveh (or baptismal bath) in St. Joseph's Church
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St. Joseph's Church in Nazareth, believed to be Joseph's house
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Nazareth and the Basilica of the Annunciation
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The view of Lake Kinneret (The Sea of Galilee) from inside the church at the Mount of Beatitudes
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View of the Kinneret from the church on Mount of Beatitudes
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Inside the church on the Mount of Beatitudes where Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount
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Church at the Mount of Beatitudes in Tabghe where Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount
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On Mount of Beatitudes in front of the Kinneret
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Church of the Bread and Fish, where Jesus fed 5000 pilgrims with five loaves of bread and two fish
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The waters of the Kinneret
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Remains of a synagogue in Capernaum
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The entrance to the synagogue in Capernaum
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The vast body of water that is the Jordan River
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View from Mitzpeh L'Shalom in the Golan Heights
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The Galil from the Golan Heights
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The hills of Samaria
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The Syrian mountains
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Who knew? Tony Perkins and Janet Leigh in a photo exhibit at the Jordan Valley College
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The Kinneret and Golan Heights in the background
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The Peace Room at the Jordan Valley College where the peace agreement with Jordan was signed in 1994
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Emek Ha'Yarden...the Jordan Valley and the hills of Samaria and Jordan
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The Golan Heights and the Kinneret
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At sea level...the Kinneret is 215 meters below sea level
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Tel Meggido or Har Meggido (known to some as Armegeddon)
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Tel Meggido/Har Meggido
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The Akko Citadel
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A square in the Hospitalars' palace
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A natural water spring found inside the Templars' underground tunnel
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Akko Harbor
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El-Jazzar Mosque in Akko
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Inside the El-Jazzar Mosque in Akko
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A 5th Century Synagogue in Tzippori
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Mosaic on the floor of a 5th Century Synagogue in Tzippori
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We're such tools...matching rugby shirts at dinner in Haifa
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Insanity begins
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Visiting the day care center in Shechanya...haven't been here since I was a wee one
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Becca and I with the little ones at the day care center
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Outside the day care center in Shechanya
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Tsfat Candle factory...David chopps off the head of Goliath
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Tsfat candle factory
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Wine tasting at the Golan Heights Winery...a rather pretentious event, I must say
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Apparently the wine got to Becca and she didn't think to read the sign
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A mezuzah on the door of a 5th Century house in Katzrin
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Synagogue in Katzrin from the Byzantine era
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Me and Becca in Katzrin
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Outside the school in Hamadya